Tell me which other 'non-racist' place hires people from some countries (PHI/IND/MYA) to act as domestic servants, people from other countries (IND/BAN) as migrant construction workers, where it's okay to pay them extraordinarily low wages & surveil them in dorms far away from the city centre. - ThreadSky

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angmohsnowball.bsky.social • 131 days ago

Tell me which other 'non-racist' place hires people from some countries (PHI/IND/MYA) to act as domestic servants, people from other countries (IND/BAN) as migrant construction workers, where it's okay to pay them extraordinarily low wages & surveil them in dorms far away from the city centre.

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angmohsnowball.bsky.social•131 days ago

SG's state has formed a narrative of what types of racism SHOULD be condemned. They really only condemn direct confrontations like "fuck [insert race here]" or racial slurs, anything with an outward appearance of attacking others. Those get condemned, regardless of the context of how it happens.

angmohsnowball.bsky.social•131 days ago

But racism intended to 'joke', like minstrelsy, may still receive condemnation, but not an outward rejection. Doing so would call to explicitly racialised power dynamics that SG is built upon, where White/Chinese people dehumanize non White/Chinese bodies to the point where they can be a costume.

angmohsnowball.bsky.social•131 days ago

Also there's an incredible lack of education of minstrelsy in colonial/early Singapore. People are led to think it's a form of racism specific to certain places (like USA) cos of it, when this has been going on for CENTURIES in Singapore and, yes, it's still racist no matter where you do it.

angmohsnowball.bsky.social•131 days ago

If you want to know more, there's this incredible paper I found, written last year after THAT similarly insane brownface advertisement that appeared a few years ago, talking about minstrelsy and its' effects on SG: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2021.1997955#d1e263

angmohsnowball.bsky.social•131 days ago

Special shoutout to THIS quote in its' conclusion (modified for readability here): "We cannot dissociate the civil code from the structures of domination that enabled it in the first place".

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