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comment from TRE by a Dinners are just Dinners.
Latest is that for the new EP rules
there will only be 3 racial categories instead of the usual 4 based on C-M-I-O.
Those classified as Others will be lumped together with Indians.
How does this work? ‘Indian and
Other’ category: If there is no Indian or Eurasian President after the late S R
Nathan (Term 1999-2011) for the next 4 EP terms, the Indians and Eurasians will
be guaranteed a contest among themselves. Could be I-vs-I, or I-vs-E or E-vs-E.
Likely I-vs-I mostly.
This is somehow ridiculous. How does
being Eurasian Singaporean or European Singaporean or Arab Singaporean suddenly
– by a stroke of a pen – mean they should be classifiable in the same category
as Indians now called ‘Indian/Others’?
How can you just lump them all
together in the same category??
This is all political convenience, and has nothing to do with respecting Eurasians or ‘Others’
This is all political convenience, and has nothing to do with respecting Eurasians or ‘Others’
I really do
not know whose clever idea is this. Now the Eurasians are going to create a
storm. What about us? Why are we now part of the Indian category? We have had
Benjamin Sheares and hoping and waiting for the next Eurasian to be the EP.
This is going to be near impossible with this change and the lumping of
Eurasians together with the Indians is as good as saying no more Eurasian EP.
Is this fair to the Eurasian community? Don’t ask me, I am not Eurasian and I
cannot claim to empathise with their feelings and emotions even if I said I
understand their plight. Only the Eurasians would know and feel slighted or do
not mind. No freaks non Eurasian can speak up on their behalf.
Should the
govt use the ‘going to be created committee’ to decide on this? Or should a COI
be instituted to study on the feelings of the Eurasians?
I think the
Indians would not be unhappy as there are many talented Indians in high places
that would easily win an EP election hands down and there could actually be
Indian EPs one after another. Would that prompt a call by the Chinese majority
to call for a special EP election just for a Chinese to be represented as the
EP after 30 years when no Chinese is elected?
Are the new changes going to provide for this too, that if after a lapse
of 30 years and no Chinese EP has been elected, then the majority Chinese also
will get a second chance?
I have to
stray away from the feelings and emotions of the Indians for having to accept
the Eurasian/Others as part of their category as I have full confidence that many
Indians would be elected to be EP by the silly ‘racist’ Chinese. Oh, while on this subject, are children of
part Indian and part Chinese or part Europeans or Others be classified as
Indians and thus counted as Indian EP? The Indians have no fear and would not
need to have to depend on this special clause to protect minority rights. It is
the Eurasians that may be compromised together with the rest of the minorities
lumped under Others.
I also worry
for the Chinese majority that there could be a time when no Chinese would be elected
over a long period as I don’t believe the Chinese are racist. They have proven
many times, over the years, to happily and willingly vote for minorities to
represent them. Now so many Chinese are even asking for Tharman to be PM.
So let’s
forget and ignore the Chinese are racist myth until proven otherwise. Just
watch what would happen if it is true that Eurasians/Others would be lumped
together with the Indians and how this worm would crawl all over the place.
Any MP want
to ask questions in Parliament but has no idea what to ask may ask if this is
true and how it would affect the feelings of the Eurasians?