Damn you creative people and your idiosyncrasies!

On April 25, 2007 · 15 Comments · In Laws of our land

Tetris

Your, you know, idio­syn­crasies, are going to infect the heart­land!

“Even­tu­ally I can­not put a fin­ger on it. But I would say if this is the way the world is going and Sin­ga­pore is part of that inter­con­nected world and I think it is, then I see no option for Sin­ga­pore but to be part of it.

“They tell me and any­way it is prob­a­bly half-true that homo­sex­u­als are cre­ative writ­ers, dancers, etcetera. If we want cre­ative peo­ple, then we got to put up with their idio­syn­crasies so long as they don’t infect the heartland.”

I dunno. There’s prob­a­bly an easy solu­tion to this dilemma, isn’t there? You know, come up with a cou­ple of use­ful cam­paign slo­gans — like the really scary one for dengue — “If they breed, you will bleed”?

Oh wait, they don’t breed. Well, at least most of them don’t. Hmmm… Oh, it’s just too hard. Thank good­ness I’m not a pub­lic ser­vant and have to think up mea­sures to deal with these things. Good thing they’re so well paid.

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  • http://mooiness.com mooi­ness

    Man this is funny.

    Why can’t the pow­ers to be see them as peo­ple, rather than strictly as homo­sex­u­als or heterosexuals?

    In the end, who ppl choose to have sex with behind close doors should not mat­ter in a true meritocracy.

  • http://mooiness.com mooi­ness

    Man this is funny.

    Why can’t the pow­ers to be see them as peo­ple, rather than strictly as homo­sex­u­als or heterosexuals?

    In the end, who ppl choose to have sex with behind close doors should not mat­ter in a true meritocracy.

  • http://adalmin.blogspot.com Adalmin

    Linked to for great jus­tice, or injus­tice, or what­ever the hell is going on in that quote. OH MY GOD, I’M SO ANGRY.

  • http://adalmin.blogspot.com Adalmin

    Linked to for great jus­tice, or injus­tice, or what­ever the hell is going on in that quote. OH MY GOD, I’M SO ANGRY.

  • http://femaleclaws.deviantart.com Kari

    The way I see it, is that as an Asian coun­try, we tend to be more con­ser­v­a­tive. Con­ser­v­a­tive isn’t nec­es­sar­ily bad– but of course, too much is not very good. I would have used the exam­ple of how Iraqi women are forced to wear the hijab or scarf to cover their heads and faces, but that is some­thing cul­tural– not reli­gious at all.

    My inter­pre­ta­tion of what MM Lee has said in the first para­graph is more of try­ing to strike a bal­ance between the East’s Con­ser­v­a­tive and West’s Lib­er­a­tive. We’ve fol­lowed in West in many ways– the shows we watch, the food we eat, the clothes we wear. Don’t many look to the West for inspi­ra­tion or guid­ance in these areas? Mean­while, the West is learn­ing that India and China would be valu­able part­ners in the future, and Anime is gain­ing in pop­u­lar­ity as well. Its a two-way exchange.

    I didn’t really like how he voiced his words in the sec­ond para­graph, how­ever. Homo­sex­u­al­ity isn’t infec­tious– but I’ve seen instances where teenagers use “homo­sex­u­al­ity” to either 1) stir up drama, 2) make them­selves look rebel­lious, 3) or just to be “dif­fer­ent”. I thought it was stu­pid to pre­tend to be some­thing you’re not for the sake of being “rebel­lious” or “dif­fer­ent”. It gives the real deal a bad name.

    And what’s the con­nec­tion between cre­ative peo­ple and homo­sex­u­als? I’m sure there’s doc­tors, con­struc­tion work­ers, bankers, accoun­tants etc out there who are homo­sex­u­als. Don’t stereo­type an entire group of peo­ple. That’s like say­ing all Asians are either Chi­nese or Japanese.

  • http://femaleclaws.deviantart.com Kari

    The way I see it, is that as an Asian coun­try, we tend to be more con­ser­v­a­tive. Con­ser­v­a­tive isn’t nec­es­sar­ily bad– but of course, too much is not very good. I would have used the exam­ple of how Iraqi women are forced to wear the hijab or scarf to cover their heads and faces, but that is some­thing cul­tural– not reli­gious at all.

    My inter­pre­ta­tion of what MM Lee has said in the first para­graph is more of try­ing to strike a bal­ance between the East’s Con­ser­v­a­tive and West’s Lib­er­a­tive. We’ve fol­lowed in West in many ways– the shows we watch, the food we eat, the clothes we wear. Don’t many look to the West for inspi­ra­tion or guid­ance in these areas? Mean­while, the West is learn­ing that India and China would be valu­able part­ners in the future, and Anime is gain­ing in pop­u­lar­ity as well. Its a two-way exchange.

    I didn’t really like how he voiced his words in the sec­ond para­graph, how­ever. Homo­sex­u­al­ity isn’t infec­tious– but I’ve seen instances where teenagers use “homo­sex­u­al­ity” to either 1) stir up drama, 2) make them­selves look rebel­lious, 3) or just to be “dif­fer­ent”. I thought it was stu­pid to pre­tend to be some­thing you’re not for the sake of being “rebel­lious” or “dif­fer­ent”. It gives the real deal a bad name.

    And what’s the con­nec­tion between cre­ative peo­ple and homo­sex­u­als? I’m sure there’s doc­tors, con­struc­tion work­ers, bankers, accoun­tants etc out there who are homo­sex­u­als. Don’t stereo­type an entire group of peo­ple. That’s like say­ing all Asians are either Chi­nese or Japanese.

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  • http://www.emigrestudio.com emi­gre

    The old man really thinks he can say any­thing he wants. First he con­demn all our moth­ers and sis­ters to become maids and now this.…but at least he’s not totally homo­pho­bic, some­thing which sur­prises me.

  • http://www.emigrestudio.com emi­gre

    The old man really thinks he can say any­thing he wants. First he con­demn all our moth­ers and sis­ters to become maids and now this.…but at least he’s not totally homo­pho­bic, some­thing which sur­prises me.

  • Leia

    because what goes round comes round.

  • Leia

    because what goes round comes round.

  • Anony­mous

    Thank good­ness I’m not a pub­lic ser­vant and have to think up mea­sures to deal with these things

  • http://alexisthetiny.wordpress.com alexis

    That is absolutely unbe­liev­able in the most hor­ri­ble way pos­si­ble. ‘Infect’. He actu­ally used the word ‘infect’. What are cre­ative peo­ple? A pesti­lence unless they are respectable heart­landers? Urgh. I have no words to describe my hor­ror. *Bangs head*

  • http://alexisthetiny.wordpress.com alexis

    That is absolutely unbe­liev­able in the most hor­ri­ble way pos­si­ble. ‘Infect’. He actu­ally used the word ‘infect’. What are cre­ative peo­ple? A pesti­lence unless they are respectable heart­landers? Urgh. I have no words to describe my hor­ror. *Bangs head*

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