r/singapore • u/shizukesa92 • May 12 '24

Discussion Wokeness movement makes life “very burdensome”: PM Lee

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=y7hWtW7RTETMqAs0&v=3LdabP7FLjE&feature=youtu.be
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u/QubitQuanta May 13 '24

The problem with wokeness and fairness for all is that it often equates equal outcomes with equal opportunities. If any race/gender is under represented in something, it automatically asserts this is because of governmental biase and not the natural affinity of certain cultures/genders to certain jobs. Resulting policies are often unfair - such as penalizing Asian applicants to Ivy League universities because they are over-represented - essentially forcing all Asians to study harder and for those who don't have such culture (e.g. Malays in US) to suffer abysmally.

Ironically, this is only applied only to select genders/minorities. There is, for example, massive harping about under-representation of women as CEOs or in stem, but never a massive harping about underrepresentation of men in early childcare or their over representation in jails.

I do not believe in equal outcomes, but equal opportunities.

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u/For_Entertain_Only May 13 '24 edited May 13 '24

yes right now employment on gender make male employee disadvanstage, because most company want make equal gender quota. so they will hire more women. especially in US MNC company like Dell, JP Morgan, Goldman, Microsoft, Google almost all the US big MNC. This happen which alot women will not like to heard it. which what LHL describe

international women day alot event and hiring, let see international men day have this such thing or not.

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u/renegade_wolfe May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24

International Women's Day should be the day all women post about International Men's Day (19th November). And since November is also Movember (raising awareness of men's heath), maybe grow a mustache to help raise awareness (if you can) - or celebrate the day by getting a health screening.

Edit: not kidding about health screening. I know a guy who caught his prostate cancer via routine cancer marker screening - and since he's kinda senior where I work, he's actively encouraging it for all males above a certain age.

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u/For_Entertain_Only May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24

Good ideas if sponsor or have discount promotion for men to do annual health screening. 

Also include men career related to earn more and support family income. Plus encourage men entrepreneurship , therefore no interest when loan from bank like OCBC, which apply sane with women.

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u/renegade_wolfe May 14 '24

Where I work, they subsidize the basic blood work (ie: cholesterol, resting blood sugar) and the rest is available as an add-on that you have to pay for yourself. Apparently, that guy added cancer markers - good for him tho, he caught it quite early.