Comments on: Wong Hoong Hooi is a psycho nutcase

By: alex

alex — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:53:00 +0000

What Israel can or cannot do is controlled by American interests and thus “Western thoughts and ideals”. I think there ARE definite differences between Western and Middle East cultures and ideals, e.g. in religion, political ideology, etc, etc so.

But yes, Israel’s response has been disproportionate.

By: no name lah

no name lah — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:04:00 +0000

Actually Wong Hoon Hooi is a cool dude. He got into a long argument or “exchange” several yrs ago on matters regarding AWARE and how men are discriminated in Sg. IIRC he even sat down with Jenny Chua (dat tai tai bimbo) for a truce session at the end of dat drawn out exchange of words, hahaha. Once a while he will pop up to slam those feminists. The other long running pet peeve of Wong seems to be the discrimination of Chinese culture and language in Sg. Perhaps discrimination is too harsh a word to use, marginalised perhaps? Hence his regular jabs at those anglicized folks or bananas who couldn’t even write or pronounce their own chinese names.

By: sieteocho

sieteocho — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:59:16 +0000

When I was in college I had a housemate who would always read out letters by this Wong Hoong Hooi, who was a regular contributor to the ST Forum. His views on sexism are extremist and are usually rather laughable.

This seems to be one of his more sensible letters, though, even though the bad grammar gives rise to all forms of misintepretation.

It is true that there is absolutely nothing wrong with western thought and ideals. But the way they are being practiced, especially in the Middle East, leaves much to be desired. So when he criticises the “free world” he’s not criticising the ideas, but the hypocrisy. Particularly the pro-Israeli bias of the Anglo Saxon countries.

It’s like saying that Israel is a free country when there are 2 sets of laws in the country - one for Jews and one for Arabs. To start a war with Lebanon because of a few captured soldiers - people think that that’s daft and rightly so.

It’s usually the case that whenever Palestinians harm Israelis, the Israelis will exact 10 times the retribution. You kill one of mine, I kill 10 of yours. It’s all in the history books.

The unfortunate part is that Wong Hoong Hooi is representing such viewpoints, and you can count on him to represent a viewpoint in such a manner that discredits it.

By: Sharifizal

Sharifizal — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:06:44 +0000

Is there a Anglo-Saxon definition of “freedom” that is different from, say, an Asian definition of “freedom”? The Old Man seems to think so.

By: budak

budak — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:32:37 +0000

He has a funny way of juxtaposing unconnected points: e.g. his recent letter telling pregnant women not to complain if they get sacked because men have to do NS.

By: Han

Han — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:03:58 +0000

alex:

He’s wrong because nothing he says has any foundation in reality.

There is no such thing as “Western thought and ideals”. There are only ideas which are logical, or illogical.

And you can’t get any more illogical than stark raving lunatic like Wong Hoong Hooi.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:54:23 +0000

No he doesn’t.

He does not say that English must be acknowledged as the dominant language, he says that English IS the dominant language but we have to accept that it is only dominant for NOW, and that other languages are also valid. The language analogy is only used to illustrate the dominance of Western thoughts and ideals. He’s just saying that the West are essentially defining “free world”, and enforcing their own definition of “free”, and thus the Arab’s “right” to defence or otherwise is decided by the West.

So what’s wrong with that?

By: sigma

sigma — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:34:42 +0000

Lol! I don’t get it. First he seems to be against the Anglo-Saxon hemegony, then he says that English muts be acknowledged as the dominant language (wtf???), and right after that he contradicts himself by saying that other languages must be elavated to the same status as English, so that English won’t be totalitarian in nature. Seriously… wtf???

By: Elia Diodati

Elia Diodati — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:30:08 +0000

False dichotomy means die die must have opposing view for “balanced coverage”… *coughs*

By: Jol

Jol — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:43:51 +0000

He has problems.

I am in today’s Today as well! In somewhat modified form, under the letters about the whole happiness shebang. I didn’t think it was particularly important to write it (it’s not like anyone would take this Adrian Tan guy’s recommendations seriously anyway) but it was a good opportunity for “get out of my hair” type sentiments to be published.