Im an ardent follower of a few opposition sites, TOC, TRE, TRS and this also includes blogs like thehearttruths.com by Roy Ngerng. A few weeks back, Roy posted an article which I thought had some statistical error. I honestly liked his blog, Other than being a little too winding for the general population, I can see that the man's heart is in the right place. However, after pointing out some of the errors of his article, I got blasted left-right-centre for being a PAP IB by some commenters, Roy even commented saying that there might be some 'moles' in the comment section. Got called a few names, daft, stupid etc. This was pretty shocking to me, I checked my account balance the next day but PAP never added any money in, so I couldn't be a PAP IB.
Instead of discussing with me and debating with me, many of them decided to just mock me(called me daft), and didnt give any explanation as to why I was 'wrong'. Sounds familiar? Very familiar, in fact, its the same tactics employed by PAP themselves. When you criticise them, they call you stupid, say that you are wrong, but never give you a good explanation why. You can also see in the comments section of TRS, anyone say anything positive about PAP gets whacked, whether they are right or otherwise.
Shouldn't people be allowed express their opinions? Whether they are oppies or papies, shouldn't we ENCOURAGE debate instead of trying to shove it away? Instead of proving me and some commentors wrong, they just get fired at for being a PAP IB, even without any proof that they are. Is there any proof that any PAP IBs even exist? Seems to me its merely a manifestation of some people who don't want to accept that other people have different views. Lets be more accepting of different views. Debate, argue, for the sake of our goddamn country, lets not let freedom of speech die. PAP has already destroyed it to such an extent, let us revive it instead of going down the same path.
Jason Lim
TRS Contributor