2011年12月27日星期二

从成汉通事件看语言族群的历史性标记

“很清楚的,以往根据种族、语言或教育背景,在(个别/群体)新加坡华人身上套上的那些帽子,都是过分笼统,甚至于是完全的、直接的偏见。我们不应该允许我们的历史变成不同族群或语言背景的人轮流压迫彼此的无休止的循环。
 
“各方退一步来审视情势,已很是时候。在自身的份上,新加坡的政治家和官方知识份子需要停止把网民看成倾向于被操纵的暴民,停止把他们归类为反行动党、反建制派等等,因为所有这样把人标记为情绪化或非理性的作法,都是非人性化且无益的。” 

 
英文全文:http://newasiarepublic.com/?p=35277 (SMRT事件中的种族主义插曲)

 
"Clearly any past branding of Chinese Singaporean according to race, language or education background is over-generalising if not outright prejudiced. Our history should not be seen as an endless cycle of people from different ethnic or language backgrounds taking turns to oppress one another.

"It is high time for all sides to take a step back. Politicians and public intellectuals in Singapore on their parts need to stop thinking of netizens as a mob that is prone to being manipulated, stop characterising them as anti-PAP, anti-establishment and so on, for any such branding of people as being emotional and irrational is also dehumanising and not helpful."

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