Defending the ultra-modernist Singapore is stupid. This country now has a 0.98 fertility rate. The government actively pushes immigration against public opinion. When the government wanted to raise the population by 1.5 million through immigration, it even caused race riots, so the government is taking immigration more slowly.
Wong's arguments aren't even good. Singapore should have set itself up as a Chinese ethnostate instead of trying to force Chinese and Indians to live side by side as the government once attempted. (The government once even tried to ensure that your neighbours were not of the same race, but eventually backed down.) Singapore would be far better off without Indians.
The "Stop at Two" policy was more stupidity pushed during LKY's long rule.
Wong clearly wants to keep politics a matter of economic management with everything else depoliticized. No different to most Western leaders, many of whom keep everything focused on such things as inflation, particularly when they have won an election as a 'Right-wing' candidate. For instance, homosexuality was decriminalised last year or the year before. Instead of defending society, they wish that all of that would go away so that they can focus on what they think really matters; that is, on economic matters.
If Singapore stuck to its old philosophies, most notably Confucianism, Muslims would have far more trouble making inroads. If they are making inroads, it is only because they are catering to some kind of spiritual void that the government's policies created.
Singapore's multiracial, multicultural, materialistic liberalism leads to a dead end. They are already cottoning on to it: they accept tens of thousands of immigrants a year for the stated reason that it is to offset a population decline that they predictably can't stem. No country that has fallen below replacement levels has yet reversed this. But even there it is pure econonism: we can't let the population decline because it might negatively impact the... economy... These are people who are incapable of social thought, only of individual and economic thought. 'Society' is just a convenient label for a bunch of atomised economic units in this view. A 'person' is but a cog in the economic machine. That is one reason why immigration is ultimately accepted in such places: you don't need to be Chinese, high IQ, etc. to play this mere economic role, for almost anyone can. Therefore, we are fine with almost anyone.
Singapore one day will be as dysfunctional and racially-mixed as any other of today's failing societies.
LKY should have learned from Mosley and his BUF, whose logo he suspiciously appeared to have plagiarized for his own PAP; kicked out the Indians, in particular; and became the Chinese Mosley. The Mosley who made it. Instead, he took that logo and and stuck it on the kind of politics that Mosley detested. Another wasted opportunity.
I'm not reading all that, but the point isn't to "defend" Singapore. The point is that even "ultra-modernist Singapore" is realizing that Islam is far from being "the religion of peace" and is, in fact, a cult suitable only for a warring band of raiding, raping, robbing gypsies. *THAT's* the point.
> *“You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.”* ― Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wong's arguments aren't even good. Singapore should have set itself up as a Chinese ethnostate instead of trying to force Chinese and Indians to live side by side as the government once attempted. (The government once even tried to ensure that your neighbours were not of the same race, but eventually backed down.) Singapore would be far better off without Indians.
The "Stop at Two" policy was more stupidity pushed during LKY's long rule.
Wong clearly wants to keep politics a matter of economic management with everything else depoliticized. No different to most Western leaders, many of whom keep everything focused on such things as inflation, particularly when they have won an election as a 'Right-wing' candidate. For instance, homosexuality was decriminalised last year or the year before. Instead of defending society, they wish that all of that would go away so that they can focus on what they think really matters; that is, on economic matters.
If Singapore stuck to its old philosophies, most notably Confucianism, Muslims would have far more trouble making inroads. If they are making inroads, it is only because they are catering to some kind of spiritual void that the government's policies created.
Singapore's multiracial, multicultural, materialistic liberalism leads to a dead end. They are already cottoning on to it: they accept tens of thousands of immigrants a year for the stated reason that it is to offset a population decline that they predictably can't stem. No country that has fallen below replacement levels has yet reversed this. But even there it is pure econonism: we can't let the population decline because it might negatively impact the... economy... These are people who are incapable of social thought, only of individual and economic thought. 'Society' is just a convenient label for a bunch of atomised economic units in this view. A 'person' is but a cog in the economic machine. That is one reason why immigration is ultimately accepted in such places: you don't need to be Chinese, high IQ, etc. to play this mere economic role, for almost anyone can. Therefore, we are fine with almost anyone.
Singapore one day will be as dysfunctional and racially-mixed as any other of today's failing societies.
LKY should have learned from Mosley and his BUF, whose logo he suspiciously appeared to have plagiarized for his own PAP; kicked out the Indians, in particular; and became the Chinese Mosley. The Mosley who made it. Instead, he took that logo and and stuck it on the kind of politics that Mosley detested. Another wasted opportunity.
> *“You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.”* ― Hillary Rodham Clinton