Friday 27 November 2015
Calvin Cheng: I told you so lah!
You know, I was gonna write a long post about the whole controversy about Calvin Cheng's remarks about killing the children of terrorists - but I thought, what's the point? Should you be surprised? Should you expect anything else from the 70% who voted for the PAP? I have only this to say: you voted for this, I don't want to hear you complain, you made your bed with the PAP now I wanna see you lie in it - this was your choice. Oh unless you're the 30% who didn't vote for the PAP, man I feel for you. Please let this incident remind you that it is time to get the hell out of Singapore.
This Calvin Cheng guy pisses me off.
ReplyDeleteHe's only mimicking the mantra of his masters. Ownself check ownself.
DeleteCalvin Cheng is so nasty I would hesitate to even make that comparison. Can't believe someone like that can even become a public figure.
DeleteCC is a bigot and an attention whore. He's just trying to hog attention with all the trash talk he's spewing to prolong his five minutes of fame as an ex nmp...
ReplyDeleteThe whole situation is just so fucked up - Amos Yee said something provocative and they threw him in jail. But this Calvin Cheng asshole can say something like that and gets away with it?
ReplyDeleteThat tells you just how FUCKED UP Singapore is. It is times like that when I am so fucking glad I left years ago.
You kind of forgot about the part where Amos Yee refused all offers of the kid gloves and went out to taunt both the system and potential allies.
DeleteIt takes a certain kind of troll to fuck with the system in any country and get away with it. The kind who keeps on fucking is not the kind.
He is about to enlist for NS and good grief, on Facebook, he is already spoiling for a fight with the SAF system. Yikes. I shudder to imagine how they would try to handle him in NS.
DeleteOkay, to be fair to Calvin Cheng, some of his views do make sense, such as his view that Adam Lambert should not be restricted from performing in Singapore.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find disturbing are his skewed political views that unashamedly defends the establishment, and now this view about killing the children of terrorists! And the way he acts all superior is just sickening. Didn't this guy go to the UK to study? Why is he so narrow minded and intolerant of views contrary to his?
Hi Wanjun,
DeleteYou'll be amazed how many Singaporean students come to the UK and just live in their little world, befriending only other Singaporean students, not making any effort to get to know the locals or broaden their horizons. Chinese students are also notorious for this kind of siege mentality when studying here. So Cheng could have studied in the UK, but he may have well buried his head in the sand for 3 years.
The link between Calvin Cheng and having to get out of sg is a stretch, don't you think? :)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as someone who is out and will never ever 'return' to live there... Ideological issues are not my biggest misgiving with that place. Indeed there's not much I *feel* is wrong.
Now, I'd choose to continue to live in Australia because of its pull. Not Singapore's push. Guess Oz has really changed me in the two years we've lived here huh?
-S
Hahahaha, you do realize I was being facetious with this blog post - like how short was it? I was going to write something about Calvin Cheng and I just thought, what's the bloody point? Just use it as another excuse to say, "you voted for this, I don't wanna hear you complain".
DeleteThat is such a colossal waste!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 18, I wanted so badly to go to university in the UK but my protective family didn't want me to go, so I studied in Singapore.
I was lucky to go to Canada for a four month exchange programme in my third year of university and whew, that really opened my mind. I didn't see the point of hanging out with Singaporeans all the time and managed to make friends with people from UK, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong (they were on exchange too!). I also got to know a few local Canadians, though I wish I could have tried to get to know more of them. In May this year I married a Chinese Australian whom I met during this exchange programme.
Long story short, it is so narrow minded to only stick with your own kind when given such a great opportunity to study or work overseas... What's the point? Might as well just stay in Singapore. Plenty of Singaporeans!
Anyway reading Calvin Cheng's bigoted and holier than thou posts really makes my blood boil and ruins my day. I don't get why he has so many followers on Facebook. Yucks. He sits in the media literacy council, yet his online behaviour is deplorable.
Maybe CC prosecuted like Amos Yee because he did not insult any important Singaporean figure or major race or religion in Singapore... (since ISIS is an extreme form of Islam that moderate Muslims refuse to identify with). But still, seeing him get away with those remarks, refusing to apologise and acting all self righteous is just so.. SICKENING
I was following the CC saga closely. I sometimes read his updates as the pro-opposition voices get so unreasonable that he offers a counter balance. CC has a fascination with authoritarian regimes like China and Russia and greatly admires strongman politics like Putin and Xi Jinping. He has a strong dislike of liberal values like human rights and freedom of speech and has implied several times that Singapore should just do away with democracy.
ReplyDeleteHe will frequently go on a anti-Western rhetoric and often claimed that Singapore rights activists are trying to conspire with the West to bring down Singapore. Sometimes, I think he worships LKY too much that he developed a very Singapore centric view of the world who thinks that the whole world would be perfect if everybody follow the Singapore model.
Unsurprisingly, he is a uncompromising right winger who have no qualms supporting any centre-right or right wing party regardless of their track records.
He graduate from the famed PPE from Oxford which many British politicians hailed from and throughout this saga, he claimed he is starting a intellectual debate. But his method is very provocative and attention seeking.
Well, from what you've described, he sounds like a pretty nasty piece of shit.
DeleteSingapore centric model whereby if everyone followed the Singapore model, the whole world would be perfect.
DeleteCorrect. Have to say thats what he is. You ought to read what he said about the TOC court case. Unbelievable.
But, heck, Roy Ngerng was to oppies what Calvin Cheng is to pappies. These characters only become a factor in your life if you let them. Otherwise they are nobody.
Um, 70% voter here. I have to say how ashamed I am at voting PAP this time. Yeah, I mean, I shouldn't have based my voting decision on a few internet "opinion influencers", whom majority of the population don't even follow. But I was so desperate for the likes to Calvin to get one up over his online opponents you see.
ReplyDeleteAnd this was all I thought about really. I didn't think about diversity in parliament, the cost of living, which opposition parties were ready for seats, etc, etc. I didn't bother about policy, who was electable and who was not, and so on. All I thought about was the online war between the likes of Calvin and his oppy counterparts. And I so wanted Calvin to win.
Yeah, real sorry. I mean if we had kept the % to the low 60s it would certainly be of use in getting Calvin to shut up. I mean with another WP ward, Calvin would certainly not make any such statements online, wouldn't he?
Well, there's 5 years to repent. Not from rising costs, or town council issues, or foreigners flooding in. To all 70% voters, lets spend the next 5 years ruing the day we let Calvin Cheng, a relative nobody in the scheme of things, run his mouth off online.
Lol. Just saying.