C S Chan - who are really creating the great divide in Singapore?

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

And when gay people were being derided at the symposium, did Chan Chun Sing come out and say that, “everyone should respect the sensitivities of others and not create division” and “sow discord amongst Singaporeans”?

When you look at the two – an inclusive company adopting non-discriminatory hiring practices and an association which organised an event to propagate clearly discriminatory and derogatory remarks to Singaporeans, which is worse?

Why did Chan Chun Sing choose to come out and speak up against an open and inclusive company but kept all silent when real discrimination was being heaped on Singaporeans? Where was Chan Chun Sing when Singaporean women were called “not easy … these days”? Where was Chan Chun Sing when Singaporeans were told we “need American values”? Why did Chan Chun Sing keep quiet when open discrimination occurred but would speak up against something so much more inclusive?

That Chan Chun Sing had the cheek to say that, “Discrimination – be it positive or negative – whether based on race, language, religion, or sexual orientation is not aligned with our social ethos, and has no place in our society,” this couldn’t be even more hypocritical.

Yet, for a company which is clearly non-discriminatory in its practice and inclusive, why would Chan Chun Sing claim that companies such as Goldman Sachs was trying to “create division” and “sow discord”?

It couldn’t be more hypocritical for Chan Chun Sing to say this. Why would Chan Chun Sing want to discredit a company as “creating divisions” and “sowing discord” when this company was clearly being “inclusive”? Instead of discrediting an inclusive company, perhaps Chan Chun Sing would like to look at his own government, when his Prime Minister had chastised Singaporeans as being a “disgrace to Singapore” and at the same time claiming that Singapore “belongs to all of us“, including “new arrivals, people who are on permanent residence here, people who are on employment pass here”. Of course, Singaporeans are a welcoming people but when our livelihoods are being threatened by the very government which is supposed to protect us, is it right for the government to call Singaporeans as being “disgraceful” and to turn Singapore into a porous society where its citizens are no longer valued?

Why did Chan Chun Sing see it fit as the Minister for Social and Family Development to critique a company for wanting to be inclusive to its employees? Isn’t the Minister for Social and Family Development’s aim to create a “caring society“?

But has Chan Chun Sing and his government been “caring”?

Chan Chun Sing has the gusto to speak up against companies who want to be inclusive and “caring” but has his government been “caring”? When asked if the government could define a poverty line “to identify at-risk households … in helping them leave the poverty cycle”, Chan Chun Sing had claimed that defining a poverty line is not favourable as it would create a “cliff effect“. However, Singapore’s poverty line, by some estimates is as high as 26%.

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