Discrimination is not a dirty word

Singaporeans react very strongly to certain words are that deemed discriminatory, or racist.  Because its meaning may mean segregating certain people to be different, inferior, superior or whatever.  This piece is an elementary study into different offensive words and are they really that dirty?

Poor = Anton Casey phrase this simple word in such a way that he belittles practically a whole nation, a swiping statement, associated poor with filth, the stench he sniffed while he took a train ride.  But why do people take offence to him using this word, I always admit I am poor all the time, because I am always broke.  I dont feel inferior, because Sg is an overpriced botox slum, cut-throat prices everything when the people are working miserable lives on a botox island just to live.  Asking billions in botox budget and salaries does help in that department too.

So isnt it true that all words play a discriminatory role when place in a different scenario and geographical or time period?  Yes it seems so, Sg being one of the richest countries by dont know what crap survey, has magnify the word to be taboo if used in context of the whole population!!!  Dam dumbass Anton Casey, what kind of banker is he?  No wonder the financial world is so screwed up, dumbass banker.

Meritocracy = ahahahah, the exceptional word used by a Education Minister!  Its funny that this word can be so discriminating and people wont know it right in their face!  Finest example is the civil service, there is a certain category of applicants that the service actively selects and recruits, but ignores all others no matter how good candidates are in their field.  Its recognition of the paper over the person kind of selection, and by their books, its meritocratic enough to be world class!!!  Can imagine every sentence I typed has to end in exclamation mark, yes its that ridiculous.  

Singaporean students has 3 major examinations to show that they are capable academically to be labelled a scholar or a prime candidate for selection into the civil service, GCE O, GCE A, university grades, 1st, 2nd class upper.  The problem with this logic is that anyone who fits the bill, without repeating any of the exams, without a glitch, graduate at the correct age of 20 something or whatever the benchmark, its deemed infallible, they be selected to be groomed to be heads, supervisors, in the civil service.  Do you see the problem yet?  This logic in itself is already flawed from the very beginning, this is not a robot factory, humans are individualistic, different persons progresses differently, by ignoring variants of the same breed, the civil service has effectively groom all a bunch of one tracked mind nincompoons to run the show!!!  Where's the variety, where's the creativity, where's the maverick?  Nope, they are all not selected, they are busy doing something else.

Its easy to see the fallacy of this one track mind recruitment process, some call it the party whip, no its not.  We are beyond slavery now, its a taboo word, though very appropriate if apply to citizens.   Just look at how clueless the newspaper is, their reporting are akin to a school newsletter.  Just look at some of the policies, these policies are so textbook based, they actually lacks real world experience and constantly needs tweaking and finetunning to make it work.  But once over a saturation point, these policies invariably fails and enter the destruction zone.  But thanks to the one-track mind selection process, no there is no maverick, no creativity problem solving skills, because these guys are probably busy enjoying themselves or making money in the private sector already.  

So the story is, its easy to follow the herd and start labelling certain groups of people with a "bad" word, that seems unpopular, unforgiving, but is it really?  Think like a weirdo and perhaps for once your mind be open to see beyond the matrix of botox before you.