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...
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...
@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."
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...
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...
"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...
"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
https://twitter.com/kindnessSG/status/1157225689084387329">https://twitter.com/kindnessS...
https://twitter.com/kindnessSG/status/1157225689084387329">https://twitter.com/kindnessS...
Thank you @kindnessSG for shedding some light on these dark times
This rabbit hole goes much, much deeper... https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1160216826770386944?s=21">https://twitter.com/sharanvka...
also, https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1160076028246552577?s=21">https://twitter.com/visakanv/...
September 2019, the return of Orang Minyak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_Minyak">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran...
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