In the past week, Singapore has been ablazed with controversy and debate over the brownface Mediacorp ad campaign and the police investigation into the rap video response by Preetipls and Subhas. As a community of students concerned with Singapore’s civil democracy and racial discourse, we at CAPE are disappointed by the knee-jerk preference for censorship and blind condemnation instead of discourse and a sincere attempt to understand and reflect upon the experiences of racial minorities in Singapore.
CAPE presents a primer of 6 infographics reflecting on racism as more than just a “western SJW thing”, discourse versus censorship, and questions to ponder with the state planning an enhancement of current judicial firepower in regulating race and religion.