In case it’s unclear why I’m not moving ‘home’ *despite everything in America*, my government believes there’s a culture war in America!
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In case it’s unclear why I’m not moving ‘home’ *despite everything in America*, my government believes there’s a culture war in America! In that there are too many queers asking for rights!!
They’re a whole government full of people who believe there is ‘too much wokism’ not even kidding
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A queer immigrant to *my country* said Singapore is fast surpassing the U.S. on queer rights because there is now a single pride flag *allowed*
I laughed so hard and said come back to me when they let my spouse live there
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@skinnylatte I have a bunch of friends there (one of my PhD graduates is a professor at NUS now!) and it seems like a great place in so many ways... but not so much for a lot of people I know.
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@dan it’s great for what I call default people
Straight and Chinese or white, two kids, caring solely about physical safety and maybe even to an extent okay with downplaying psychological safety
It’s a life of tradeoffs. Don’t ask for X and you can have the world.
Marginalized people there don’t have the luxury
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@skinnylatte Yup, that sounds about right.
My first introduction to Singaporeans was one of my officemates in grad school. He was a really nice guy for the most part... except for the surprisingly right-wing opinions that would come out of his mouth on rare occasions. Like, I've never met anyone else who's actually *enthusiastic* about the death penalty.
Which seems like Singapore in a nutshell...
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@dan yes, that is.. most of upper middle class singapore
which makes the work of people like @kixes so important
The cost is too damn high.
One day we will take stock of the damage caused by the psychological violence of self-censorship and realise that the cost was too damn high.
We, The Citizens (www.wethecitizens.net)
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Sounds like they're British Empire'ing even harder than England these days. How grim.
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@cwood the tories want a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ so that’s pretty accurate
