Critical Spectator

2021-06-28 15:24:05 Antiracists are the new racists. Antifascists are the new fascists. Feminists (both male and female) are the new sexists.

And even advocates for child safety turn out to be pedophiles.

I've always been suspicious of the noisy do-gooders. You don't have to make a peep to just be a good person.

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2021-06-28 05:07:30 Today a few words about the GRC system and how it promotes not only ethnic diversity but also diversity of thought.

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2021-06-25 14:48:22 Fake news circulated i.a. by WUS. Bullshit as ever.

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2021-06-25 12:49:55 Singapore's 2020 Census revealed quite a surprising trend - the share of STEM graduates in the country is falling - what doesn't bode well for the future.

Engineering studies are no longer the top choice for men, as most choose Business & Administration subjects.

But innovation is not driven by admin majors but scientists, engineers, programmers...

Even IT degrees are seeing fewer graduates, despite a decade of technological revolution which put a smartphone in everybody's pocket and saw a rise of multibillion corporations in ecommerce, fintech, delivery services or social media.

If the trend doesn't change, SG may need to open the doors to qualified immigrants wider, or face labour force crunch.

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2021-06-24 11:20:19 Avoid using oppressive language everyone!

This is, sadly, real: https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelanguagelist_violent.html Open / Comment

2021-06-24 03:52:37 Today another CECA summary:

If you're opposing CECA you're most likely not qualified to be a PMET.

"Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians" is a pretty broad category of qualified, competent, intelligent workers. As such, I would imagine anybody who fits within it has the following fundamental skills:
- Basic reading comprehension
- Basic numerical comprehension

In other words - you should be able to understand written text and basic numbers.

I've observed that complaints about CECA in Singapore seem to correlate with employment dissatisfaction which - in the light of facts and figures about the agreement (tirelessly repeated in the media) - must mean that you simply cannot comprehend what you read.

Small wonder, then, that you are struggling to find a job that requires even more than that. It is, therefore, quite impossible for you to belong in the PMET category in the first place.

-> FACTS & FIGURES about CECA (for the umpteenth time):

The agreement does not give preferential employment conditions to Indian nationals.

Intra-Corporate Transferees - which appear to be the eyesore for the complainers - still have to fulfill EP requirements.

The number of ICTs among the Employment Pass holders is lower than 5%.

Pre-pandemic there were about 190,000 EP holders in Singapore. It means then, at most, there were about 9,500 ICTs in the city - and not all of them from India (as similar rules extend to other countries SG has agreements with).

Singapore's resident labor force is around 2.3 million. About 58% of them are PMETs - so, approx. 1.3 million.

In other words, people representing 1.3 million strong local PMET labor force are upset about a few thousand immigrant ICTs? Seriously?

Including all EP holders, the entire PMET labor force is about 1.5 million people.

It means that all ICTs comprise around 0.6% of that.

If you got this far and you still feel threatened by CECA, I'm sorry to say but it means you're intellectually incapable of ever being employed in any PMET profession, in any sane company, in any country on this planet.

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2021-06-23 14:09:07 I've grown tired of all the whining about CECA so I put together a simple chart showing its impact.

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2021-06-23 02:31:05 Also, here's a PS about Sudhir's book and its funding. Besides private donors (including his family) the project received public funding and yet nothing has come out of it yet.

He took 8 years to write his first book too... The cycling trip was in 2004, he published the account in 2012... Open / Comment

2021-06-23 01:50:44 Turns out Malays can be racist against other Malays, and Indians can be racist against other Indians - if they are afflicted with INTERNALISED RACISM.

Yep, folks, turns out that a member of a minority can't have an opinion of his own. Either they acknowledge racism or are victims of internalised racism that turns them against their own people.

I know this for a fact, a 44 year old millionaire Indian child has told me.

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2021-06-22 03:58:14 We all often ridicule the woke here - but the more pressing question is: how do we defeat them?

I explore this in the latest post: https://www.facebook.com/CriticalSpectator/posts/3953847448056286 Open / Comment