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Naomi Klein: Lying to sell books


Secularism, the Dr Thio Li-ann way

This post had been cross-posted to Singapore Angle here. I have disabled comments for this post, and comments should be redirected to the page on Singapore Angle.
I read the column published by Dr Thio Li-ann here, and I wish to comment on the issues raised.
A False Dichotomy
Dr Thio begins the column by setting up “theocracy” [...]

Black sheep or white sheep, you are still sheep

Deng Xiaoping had this famous quote attributed to him, which goes something like this:
“No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.”「不管白猫、黑猫,逮住老鼠就是好猫。」
And I realised that this could be easily adapted for our Singaporean context, but with a twist in the [...]