Thread by @visakanv, It's time for a History of Singaporean Chinese people in Brownface2012 UOB [...]

It& #39;s time for a History of Singaporean Chinese people in Brownface

2012 UOB bollywood-themed party https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120212-327473.html">https://www.asiaone.com/News/Late...

2016 https://mothership.sg/2016/10/toggle-showed-chinese-actor-in-blackface-role-because-his-indian-colleague-couldnt-make-it/">https://mothership.sg/2016/10/t...

2013, Wahbanana. The video is still live. This is one of Singapore& #39;s most popular youtube channels with over 1,200,000 subscribers; according to Forbes they charge $20,000–$50,000 for sponsored content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8rvHTJiHk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

2015, Desmond Tan on his own Instagram feed https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mediacorp-actor-desmond-tan-does-090245163.html">https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mediacorp...

2018, Singapore Sports Institute chief Toh Boon Yi at their Deepavali party https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2018/11/26/racist-or-not-netizens-divided-over-kacang-puteh-caricature-by-sports-sg-chief/">https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2018/11/2...

2019, epay – mediacorp and Havas... I& #39;m too tired to go into detail https://www.marketing-interactive.com/mediacorp-and-havas-open-up-on-chastised-ad-with-actor-playing-different-races/">https://www.marketing-interactive.com/mediacorp...

People have been making police reports over
@plspreeti& #39;s reaction to the above ad campaign

"The police will not tolerate any offensive content that causes ill will between races," the police said."

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i am tired https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/police-looking-into-rap-video-by-local-youtube-star-preetipls-allegedly-containing">https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore...

Police looking into rap video by local YouTube star Preetipls alleged

Singapore News -"The police will not tolerate any offensive content that causes ill will between races," the police said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/police-looking-into-rap-video-by-local-youtube-star-preetipls-allegedly-containing

If you& #39;d like to learn more about other examples of racism in Singapore, or read old discussions and arguments that people have been having for decades now, here& #39;s an incomplete list I& #39;ve put together (because people kept asking me "got racism meh?") http://visakanv.com/sg/examples-of-racism">https://visakanv.com/sg/exampl...

Examples of Racism in Singapore

This page is an attempt to collect all of the news articles and significant blogposts relating to racism in Singapore. Not all of these posts are describing racist incidents – some are noteworthy d…

http://visakanv.com/sg/examples-of-racism

"everyone on the @wahbananasg team thought seriously about this portrayal before we went ahead with it" https://www.facebook.com/ohaisaelis/posts/301559189973821">https://www.facebook.com/ohaisaeli...

Freshly published by @kindnessSG:

"casual racism has always existed since our forefather’s time, and that’s okay."

"What, Munnaeru Vaalibaa was taken?"

https://pride.kindness.sg/preetipls-its-not-because-im-chinese/">https://pride.kindness.sg/preetipls...

tbh, I really appreciate it when folks like this just come out and say what they really think. it& #39;s quite refreshing

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