thelocalbigot

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Bigoted Opinions

What’s up my fellow bigots and casual SJWs!  There’s been one heck of a drama stirring over the last few days eh? I resorted to tumblr just to share a privileged viewpoint on the following 2 situations, which I will cover separately.  1) The Shrey Bhargava issue with Ah Boys to Men 

2) The Geylang Bazaar outrage when a Chinese Girl’s snaps said that the food sucks

First off, I will leave the evidence/citations/whatever you want to call it to Google. Whether it is believable or justified, you’ll judge for yourself.

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Alright, now time for the honesty. I felt that Shrey’s outrage on Facebook was justified, but not professional. If I were in his shoes I would have probably done the same thing, the only difference is that I would have recognized that it would still have been the wrong thing to do. 

Yes, feelings are perfectly justifiable. Does a PLO member not feel justified in setting off a car bomb killing dozens of Israeli? Plenty of his family members have been killed in the long-standing conflict. Does that make it right? Is it okay to fight fire with fire? Now moving on from this far-fetched analogy(which is used to illustrate how feelings can justify just about any action, whether it has good or bad consequences) let’s take a look at why he was wrong in this situation.

For starters, he was at a casting which meant this would be his job. They were going to pay him, if he was casted. It also happened to be a comedy, and as much as I dislike Jack Neo’s films, to use a stereotype was also ironically perfectly justifiable on their end. It would therefore be completely unprofessional on his part to make comment on this. If I was in his shoes, if it truly crossed my values, I would just reject the role if I was offered it, and keep mum about any reservations they may have about the casting director, or even if I can’t, at least do it in private. An employee shouldn’t be divulging his colleague, let alone superior’s personal indiscretions, to the world.

Secondly, I don’t think he is an attention whore. I highly doubt he’s a bad actor who desperately needs the publicity but this is where I have to agree with Maxi Lim. The actor recently came out to say that Shrey’s insecurities were really revealing in his post, and this definitely holds true. Maxi also revealed that Shrey had asked him to put in a good word for him to the filming team, and I think this reflects very badly on Shrey as this shows he wanted the role but on his own terms. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, man. 

Last but not least on this matter, Shrey’s post provoked a massive outrage amongst the local SJW community, with many immediately coming out to slam ‘chinese privilege’ and the likes of it once again. No. Just no. In the first Ah Boys To Men movie we already have Chinese characters who are stereotyped as the local ‘ah beng’ type. Jack Neo himself, as popular blogger Xiaxue has brought up, made his own local caricature of the Chinese Aunty. Isn’t that a stereotype in itself? Stop. Not everything is Chinese Privilege. I can empathise with Shrey’s hurt racial pride and values, but to everyone who keeps adding fuel to the already burning fire - stop, you’re not helping.

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Moving on, I’m going to keep this short and sweet because it’s honestly ludicrous. Chinese girl goes to Geylang Bazaar, doesn’t like the food. Posts snaps saying that the food ‘sucks’ and that people shouldn’t go there. Triggering ensues.

Gosh haven’t you guys already learnt? NOT EVERYTHING IS RACIAL PRIVILEGE

In this case, someone literally made remarks that have literally NOTHING to do with race. Unless someone proves to me today that FOOD is a RACE. Nada, I’m not having it. Honestly, her comments aren’t exactly tasteful.(no pun intended) But neither are they wrong, and having to apologize for wounding hurt feelings and pride is really ridiculous. 

Alright that’s all folks. Please keep the peace.