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Weekly Roundup: Week 13
Posted by singaporedaily on 28th March 2009
Weekly Roundup: Week 13
“While Singapore chases after economic development and all that it brings, such as jobs, one wonders if this should be at the expense of erasing our history.”
Andrew Loh
“..the Singapore system is an exam meritocracy, whilst the American one is a talent meritocracy, which saw the latter producing world-beaters in abundance.”
Kelvin Teo
“..the founding Father—who engenders and animates the state—writes himself as the sole protagonist in the national narrative, casts his allies in supporting roles and his enemies as antagonists, and interpellates Singaporean readers/citizens into infantile subjects paranoid about threats of race riots, Marxist conspiracies, hostile neighbouring countries, terrorism, disease, economic crisis, and the ceaseless challenges of striving to be number one in the world. Society, in all its lack, is the “negative mirror” that makes possible the state’s heroic self-definitions.”
“Who’s afraid of Catherine Lim? The State in Patriarchal Singapore”, Dr Kenneth Paul Tan
“The latest move IS NOT A SIGN OF OPENNESS but rather A MOVE TO UNTIE PAP’s HANDS WHILE MAKING MORE RESTRICTIONS FOR ITS DISSIDENTS, CRITICS AND POLITICAL OPPONENTS.”
Goh Meng Seng
“Knowing they can’t control political discourse, they seek to control the spaces for discourse.”
Sam Ho
“When a government legislates not against the person conducting an illegal activity but against the one witnessing it, and does so for clearly political purposes, one should know that the government has stepped beyond its moral responsibilities of safeguarding society and has abused its conferred privilege to enact laws.”
Andrew Loh
This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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