The Real Amnesia

If you can read in Chinese, check out this article on MM Lee by someone with the moniker of 頎洋. The article is named 'Lee Kuan Yew's Amnesia'.

The author's obviously someone from Nanyang University.

A sample from the article:

"南大冤死多年，凶手在自家的王国里逍遥法外，如今更在光天化日之下、明目张胆地撬棺鞭尸，全世界受华文教育的炎黄子孙众目昭彰，是可忍、孰不可忍！"

I cannot conclude whether I agree/disagree with his points only because I am not familiar with that part of Singaporean history. I don't think anyone my age really knows much about that part of our history. Coz according to my brief history education, after Sang Nila Utama and gang visited Singapore, Raffles came along, stood on the banks of Singapore River and gave birth to modern Singapore. Then the Japanese came and killed quite a few of us. And the next thing you know, MM Lee and his kakis started building HDB flats.

Despite my inability to understand the context, I found the article very intriguing. So, I reread the article and gave it some thought.

Then I realised why the article had seduced me.

It's not because of the content, but only because I find his disparaging tone keenly familiar. Ahhh... Many of my formative years were spent amidst such words... especially that tone. The Chinese-educated indignation.

Familiarity is a strange phenomenon. It just kicks one into auto mode. There is no real amnesia to claim here.