Everything about The Wee Shu Min Elitism Scandal totally explained
The
Wee Shu Min elitism scandal was a
Singaporean scandal in
October 2006 in which Wee Shu Min, daughter of
parliament member Wee Siew Kim and then-eighteen year-old student on
Raffles Junior College's scholarship programme, found herself in controversy after posting on her
blog what were viewed by some Singaporeans to be
elitist,
naive, and insensitive statements against
heartlanders.
Dismissing the
views of Derek Wee
who voiced concerns on
job security and
age discrimination on his blog, she shot back with a take-no-prisoners diatribe, calling Wee a
"stupid crackpot", belonging to
"the sadder class" and overreliant on the government. Her post also called for Wee to
"get out of my elite uncaring face." Her response triggered an avalanche of criticism, as it came on the heels of the sensational
suicide of an individual (said to be facing financial difficulties) at
Chinese Garden MRT Station. As a result, her name topped
Technorati's search terms for a week. She has since appeared to have apologised on another blog and shut down her own. Furthermore, the government had previously made it clear that there was no such thing as Internet privacy with the
imprisonment of bloggers under the
Sedition Act just over than a year earlier Commentators used the controversy as evidence that Singapore was suffering from increasing signs that
political elitism, "smarter-than-thou" snobbery and
class consciousness/anxiety were creeping into its
meritocracy model, a widening
social stratification that will cause long-term implications for Singaporean society, The controversy was subsequently raised and hotly debated again in the opening session of the
Parliament by fellow MP
Sin Boon Ann, who pointed out that elitism was now an open secret in several aspects of Singapore society, including education, the
military and the civil service, commenting that it's necessary "(to)
break down the institution of snobbery within our society."
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