Tuesday, October 24, 2006
And another!
How frightening it is to know that a PAP MP could think in the same manner as Wee Shu Min.
I was totally disgusted by Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Wee Siew Kim's remarks, when he apologised on behalf of his daughter, about how "I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable, that is, that a well-educated university graduate who works for a multinational company should not be bemoaning about the Government and get on with the challenges in life.... Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it."
I'm jumping ahead of myself. Here's the whole text of his apology:
"What she said did come across as insensitive. The language was stronger than what most people could take.
But she wrote in a private blog and I feel that her privacy has been violated. After all, they were the rantings of an 18-year-old among friends.
I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable, that is, that a well-educated university graduate who works for a multinational company should not be bemoaning about the Government and get on with the challenges in life.
Nonetheless, I have counselled her to learn from it. Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it.
In our current desire to encourage more debate, especially through the Internet, our comments must be tempered with sensitivity.
I will not gag her, since she's 18 and should be able to stand by what she says.
The new media of the Internet is such that if you don't like what she has said, you have the right of rebuttal.
Hopefully, after the discussion, everyone will be the richer for it. As a parent, I may not have inculcated the appropriate level of sensitivity, but she has learnt a lesson, and it's good that she has learnt it at such an early stage in life.'
- ANG MO KIO GRC MP WEE SIEW KIM on his daughter's comments (Source: The Straits Times, 24 Oct 2006)"
Err... did he just try to throw in disdain for Derek even as he apologised for his daughter's response to the blogger? I mean, he was really, basically saying that people should just shut up, work and try to make it somehow... and that the point Derek raised was not really a challenge/problem that needs to be addressed so the government couldn't care less, right?
So erm... does that count as an apology or what?
Does MP Wee Siew Kim not understand his electoral????? Bear in mind the whole "PAP members speak as one voice". Do I then assume that MP Wee's words are representative of the entire PAP's thinking?
Here you have a citizen highlighting a problem many people are facing, providing feedback to the government and you simply call him a chickenheart to his face.
Does that mean that really, the government doesn't care about what the people think?
I remember Shu Min's parting shot to Derek:
"Please get out of my elite, uncaring face".
Isn't that just totally gross?
According to this blog, the issue of support for PMETs was raised in parliament:
http://xialanxue.blogspot.com/2006/10/netizens-confused-over-ang-mo-kio-grc.html
Scroll to about halfway down the post and you'll find it.
What's up with the disparity between other PAP MPs' words and that of MP Wee Siew Kim?
Who do I listen to?
I was totally disgusted by Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Wee Siew Kim's remarks, when he apologised on behalf of his daughter, about how "I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable, that is, that a well-educated university graduate who works for a multinational company should not be bemoaning about the Government and get on with the challenges in life.... Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it."
I'm jumping ahead of myself. Here's the whole text of his apology:
"What she said did come across as insensitive. The language was stronger than what most people could take.
But she wrote in a private blog and I feel that her privacy has been violated. After all, they were the rantings of an 18-year-old among friends.
I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable, that is, that a well-educated university graduate who works for a multinational company should not be bemoaning about the Government and get on with the challenges in life.
Nonetheless, I have counselled her to learn from it. Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it.
In our current desire to encourage more debate, especially through the Internet, our comments must be tempered with sensitivity.
I will not gag her, since she's 18 and should be able to stand by what she says.
The new media of the Internet is such that if you don't like what she has said, you have the right of rebuttal.
Hopefully, after the discussion, everyone will be the richer for it. As a parent, I may not have inculcated the appropriate level of sensitivity, but she has learnt a lesson, and it's good that she has learnt it at such an early stage in life.'
- ANG MO KIO GRC MP WEE SIEW KIM on his daughter's comments (Source: The Straits Times, 24 Oct 2006)"
Err... did he just try to throw in disdain for Derek even as he apologised for his daughter's response to the blogger? I mean, he was really, basically saying that people should just shut up, work and try to make it somehow... and that the point Derek raised was not really a challenge/problem that needs to be addressed so the government couldn't care less, right?
So erm... does that count as an apology or what?
Does MP Wee Siew Kim not understand his electoral????? Bear in mind the whole "PAP members speak as one voice". Do I then assume that MP Wee's words are representative of the entire PAP's thinking?
Here you have a citizen highlighting a problem many people are facing, providing feedback to the government and you simply call him a chickenheart to his face.
Does that mean that really, the government doesn't care about what the people think?
I remember Shu Min's parting shot to Derek:
"Please get out of my elite, uncaring face".
Isn't that just totally gross?
According to this blog, the issue of support for PMETs was raised in parliament:
http://xialanxue.blogspot.com/2006/10/netizens-confused-over-ang-mo-kio-grc.html
Scroll to about halfway down the post and you'll find it.
What's up with the disparity between other PAP MPs' words and that of MP Wee Siew Kim?
Who do I listen to?
