Recently the internet took umbrage at a 60-year old man for making racist comments to an interracial couple.
The man in question has since been identified as a teaching staff with Ngee Ann Polytechnic. He is currently suspended from his teaching duties and police investigations are ongoing.
In case you missed the exchange, here’s the video:
Video from Dave Parkash’s Facebook
The video has since drawn the attention of several Ministers and Members of Parliament. Some of them have also weighed in on this issue.
In particular, Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam wrote a lengthy post on his Facebook expressing his concerns about racial tolerance in Singapore.
Some of the netizens were worried, if the lecturer has been discriminating his students based on race in school:
Others have called for stronger actions to be taken against the perpetrator.
However, there other netizens who tried to sympathize with the man by attempting to explain his bizarre behavior. Some theorized he must have been hurt before in similar interracial relationship:
Whatever his reason, we think this is the question that is on most of our minds:
We sincerely hope the lecturer finally learns love is love.