Amy Cheong sacked by NTUC over racist comment
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Police report filed against Amy Cheong over racist Facebook post
Singapore police are investigating the former NTUC staff who was fired on Monday morning for her profanity-laced post insulting traditional Malay void deck weddings.
A police report was filed against Amy Cheong, assistant director, membership department at labour movement NTUC, by a member of the public, Lionel Jerome de Souza on Monday morning.
De Souza is the secretary of Hougang's Inter-Racial and Confidence Circle (IRCC), which comes under the purview of the Ministry of Community Development Youth and Sports. In his report, he urged the police to take a serious view of Cheong's comments which "inevitably hurt the feelings of the Malays".
In her post on Sunday evening, Cheong had put up a public status on her personal Facebook timeline, complaining about a Malay wedding that was being held at a void deck near her home.
Among other things, she related Malay weddings to high divorce rates, and asked how society could “allow people to get married for 50 bucks”, peppering her post with vulgarities.
In a separate post, she also allegedly wrote, “Void deck weddings should be banned. If you can’t afford a proper wedding then you shouldn’t be getting married. Full stop.”
She has since been fired from her job by NTUC and also made multiple apologies after her profanity-laced post went viral online, triggering an angry backlash from both Malay and non-Malay communities alike.
The issue has also sparked debate over the public versus private nature of Facebook and her personal thoughts.
While some argued that her Facebook profile was her "private" space and that her own feelings were not reflective of her employers NTUC, others felt as a former assistant director, she should have known better.
Facebook user Surendren Karrupiah wrote on Yahoo! Singapore's Facebook page, "Director? How silly... Generally, director representing ntuc should be unbiased in regards to her personal feeling about other minority groups. She openly criticised minority group in the social media shows clearly she is unfit to fill the position as director."
However, another user Andreas von Lucius says Cheong should be forgiven.
He wrote, "Why spread the hate? She has apologised, what more do you want her to do?... Humans are imperfect! I'm sure somewhere in our lives we have made racist remarks some way or another but just not made known in the public."
Meanwhile Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan Jin has also weighed in on the issue. In a post on his Facebook page, he said traditional Malay void deck weddings are as much a part of the Singapore landscape as "burning of offerings, void deck funerals... and increased parking during Friday prayers or Sunday morning worship."
He reminded all Singaporeans to "give and take" and to be proud of the diversity and "colourful tapestry" that makes up Singapore. -
Please take away her Singapore Citizenship.... & Deport her to Indonesia or Malaysia.
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Amy Cheong is from which ethnic group?
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Asst Director of Memebership, NTUC can (only) afford to stay in HDB ah?
means pay not bery high?
then shd i apply or nt leh?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
Asst Director of Memebership, NTUC can (only) afford to stay in HDB ah?
means pay not bery high?
then shd i apply or nt leh?
Please go apply....
then u will have lesser time in Sgforums......
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Amy Cheong... Her wedding photo date is 26 May 2012...
She only got married recently, how can she curse other ppl sia... Her words: "hundred may have curse you" but then again, now tens of thousands will be cursing her...
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
Please go apply....
then u will have lesser time in Sgforums......
you think only.
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Hougang grassroots leader lodges police report against Amy Cheong
By S Ramesh | Posted: 08 October 2012 1427 hrsSINGAPORE: A grassroots leader from the Hougang single-member constituency has made a police report against former NTUC employee Amy Cheong for her racist remarks which were posted on Facebook.
The secretary of the division's inter-racial confidence circle, Lionel de Souza, has posted his police report on his Facebook page.
He told Channel NewsAsia that he lived through the racial riots in Singapore and felt such remarks should never be allowed to be made here.
In his police report, he said that the remarks made by Amy Cheong were calculated to promote enmity between different groups on the grounds of race.
He added in his complaint that this was prejudicial to maintaining racial harmony in Singapore. -
Originally posted by Clivebenss:
you think only.
We should encourage her to "Apply for the Job".....
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"Zero tolerance" towards racially offensive remarks: NTUC
AsiaOne
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
We should encourage her to "Apply for the Job".....
May be Queen of NTUC?
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
May be Queen of NTUC?
EHHHHH, then Fifreice will have to suck up to Lim Swee Say
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Originally posted by Uraniumfish:
EHHHHH, then Fifreice will have to suck up to Lim Swee Say
In NTUC they practice zorro tolerance; very similar to sgf.
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got other one. Eve Tan....
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Originally posted by FireIce:
got other one. Eve Tan....
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Originally posted by Uraniumfish:
zorro tolerance again?
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seems like all the racist comments were only made by females. Those males who served NS with malays didn't make any bigoted comments.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
seems like all the racist comments were only made by females. Those males who served NS with malays didn't make any bigoted comments.
are you suggesting female to serve NS?
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
seems like all the racist comments were only made by females. Those males who served NS with malays didn't make any bigoted comments.
Bitches be racist.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
are you suggesting female to serve NS?
why not?
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
why not?
This is way off topic, but I can think of 32 reasons:
1. It would be a waste of tax dollars.
2. It would be a waste of effort and space.
3. Bitches be crazy.
4. Girls can't fire guns due to neh obstruction of rifle butt.
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Originally posted by John Wong:
should be fired for stupidity, not racism
HAHAHA -
do u forgive her?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
do u forgive her?
yes.
becos she is chio
