The founding Prime Minister was an extraordinary political leader born out of that turbulent and uncertain era. Singapore at that time was a small island and an unnoticeable city. Economically, it relied on entrepot trade. Militarily, it relied on protection from the British troops. When Singapore was forced to leave Malayasia, I don’t think many would have believed that Singapore could survive on its own, not to mention, to have imagined our achievements today. We all know that during that period, the country was to be rebuilt from scratch and there was [a] high unemployment rate. Our neighbours were not particularly friendly either. To survive, we must have a global vision, foreign investment, and become part of the international market. However, this could put Singapore in danger of becoming a big country’s vassal and a pawn in the international political arena that can be sacrificed at any time. These internal and external challenges were a grave test for Mr Lee. With outstand wisdom and courage, he traversed among the big countries and promoted Singapore’s values to them and the potential benefits that Singapore could provide. He had won the respect of the leaders of these major powers. Without his efforts, our economy could not have been successful and Singapore could not have achieved its status and its living space today. For a small country to survive, besides a strong military defence, the political space is the key to maintain its national interest and its survival. In Singapore, fighting for independence and the continuous political struggle awakened Singaporeans political awareness. In the process of political movements and the fighting together, consensus was forged between the people and Mr Lee, as well as a common direction and mutual trust. This is the main reason why Singapore can leap from the Third World to the First World within one generation. The success arose not just from Mr Lee’s extraordinary fighting spirit and his tenacity, but also from his sincerity. However, I don’t think that the PAP one-party rule is the key to Singapore’s fast economic development, strong social cohesion and the unitedness. This is because many Singaporeans were sacrificed during the process of nation building and policy making; and our society has paid the price for it. This is why Mr Lee is also a controversial figure in some people’s eyes. He crafted policies based on the situation then, and made rational judgment out of the interests of the country. However, the choice and the implementation of policies is not just a rational decision, it should also take into consideration human nature and their sensitivity. Only by doing so can we avoid hurting people’s feelings and creating resentment. If accumulated over a long time, that resentment could become a potential political crisis and affect people’s unity and their identification with the country. From my dealings with Mr Lee in Parliament, I don’t think he was an autocrat who didn’t listen. If you have strong reasons and tight arguments, and can win him over through policy debate, I think he will consider your views. I also know he was someone who hated empty talking because he thought time was precious and there were too many things to do. Singapore is a multiracial society and every race has its own language and culture. In the early years of nation building, everyone hoped to maintain their advantages in this new country. How to manage the various conflicts of interests, unite people and build a national identity? [That] was a tremendous challenge. Countries with similar situations as we were in the early days are still facing the same social conflicts brought about by multiracialism and multiculturalism. Some even face the danger of disintegration. Singapore today is united regardless of race, language and religion. This is an achievement that is not possible without Mr Lee. My deepest respect goes to founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
I think a lot of people are overly sensitive this week. The speech had no intention to criticize LKY. It just mentioned that a lot of hard-handed measures had to be done during that era and sacrifices made, only LKY had the strength of character to do these things. It's meant to be a form of respect. It takes courage to speak one's own mind when they are the minority. LKY was opposition before and he had guts to speak his own mind and put forward his opinions in front of the Labour front. Had LKY remained quiet, he wouldn't have earned the respect of our people and Singaporeans would not have voted him as our leader. Mr Low Thia Khiang is just speaking his mind. Stop flaming please.
Muk Lee But Low Thia Khiang does not have the courage to apologise when his party makes mistakes eg. town council mismanagement of funds and bad governance (unlawful methods). In Singapore, you do not need a lot of courage to speak out, that's why people like Worker's Party have exploits their rights suggesting unworkable ideals in the parliament .. wasting everybody's time.
The parliament is not a memorial service hall. A parliament speech does not have to be a eulogy singing only praises. Kudos to Low Thia Khiang for daring to speak up and provide a balanced perspective. Time to move on from an era of fear of speaking up and challenging the ruling party.
zuvaloppa yes, a parliament is not a memorial hall, but a tribute is still a tribute! who will use the opportunity of a tribute to raise his disagreement towards a death person, this is extremely disrespectful.LTK as a politician should understand how most of the Singaporeans feel about losing Mr Lee Kuan Yew, its a very wrong move of him.maybe many Singaporeans kudos to LTK and his team for daring to raise their concern, but on this occasion is very inappropriate.
I agree that the Parliament House is not a "ORDINARY" memorial service hall, but this is also NOT another ORDINARY parliament sitting --- This is a SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY SITTING to commemorate The One who make this nation, that is, what it is today in the world for you and me to live in. This is NOT about daring to speak up or not, IT IS BASIC PUBLIC BEHAVOR About being RESPECTFUL for the dead (NOT JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY ELDERLY WHO PASSED AWAY) and also about SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS AT THE RIGHT TIME. Frankly, if my late father still around and i do such things as he did, My late father will punish me for being disrespectful and as he will say BO-GA-XI and i will bring disgrace to him cause people will think that he did not educate me on such basic behavor/moral/character... Freedom of speech does not mean saying things as we like, but must have substance...
This is a parliamentary session to pay tribute to our founding father, not a parliamentary session per se. Oxford definition of Tribute- An act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration. Ordinarily, reasonable folks would not be taking offense with Low's view as he is entitled to it. It is the time, place and manner that he raised his views that is disrespect to the our beloved LKY who get us where we are today that I suspect is truly offensive to many.
Sounds more like an appraisal than a tribute. And if it's a tribute, leave the negative or differing opinions for another time. I don't know for sure what Mr Low was thinking and wanted to convey, I only feel that his tribute to Mr Lee left a somewhat bitter aftertaste after I viewed this video.
There no wrong in his speech. To put things simple, Low plainly describe Lee had to do what he did during his time to push sg to what it is today. n thank Lee for uniting a nation and his contribution. Do not jump into conclusion by misinterpreting its meaning from social media, cause most of them are out to screw opposition than maintain neutral. Love him, Hate him. Mr lee in my view is the greatest man we have least in my generation in Singapore and is a legend. No one can ever surpass what he did. May he rest in peace.
Cause our old man passed away, now everyone think's they are now a patriot ? keyboard warriors :T . 4:20 for all those who wanna say anything about how we should just mourn and sing praises. Know what our old man has done for us, respect it or hate it its not for us to judge. but respect him for his dedication to our nation. period.
I was curious about the big hooha about Mr Low's tribute towards Mr Lee and decided to watch the video. Personally, I feel it was well said and delivered in a very sincere manner. If you understand Mandarin, Mr Low did not speak badly about Mr Lee. What he did was that he gave full credit to Mr Lee for developing SG into what we are, today. Yes, there was a paragraph about how certain political decisions of Mr Lee had made him a controversial figure and more sensitivity could be injected into rational decisions in order to create less resentment so that it does not affect the nation's unity. Is that wrong? I did not think that was a political criticism. He was just stating a fact and making Mr Lee very human and ...therefore not perfect; Mr Lee is brilliant in this, this and this but he could do better in that... I thought Mr Low's speech is the most sincere and straightforward. I can tell you what he is not. He is not a hypocrite who disagree with a person when the person is alive and sing him all the praises when he has passed. And please, do not criticise his English. He was Chinese- educated and he speaks much better than a whole bunch of people who were educated in English. Humans are humans, humans do not suddenly become a saint when they passed away. There is no rule saying one have to say or remember only the good things when someone passed away. I think it is more important to be truthful.
this suppose to be a Special Parliamentary Sitting held to pay tribute to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. it is extremely inconsiderate to criticize our founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew! i feel sorry for him for being such a petty man who uses such opportunity to raise his his disagreement and negative opinion towards Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Without Mr Lee Kuan Yew, there will be no Singapore, hence there will be no Worker Party. Mr Low, you just lost my vote.
I think it's very inconsiderate to criticise our late Mr LKY when the nation is still in mourning of his passing. Mr LTK, you just lost my respect for you,
he didn't criticize Mr LKY... He is just saying that the new policies now should also consider the Singaporean well-being (unlike Mr LKY's policies in the past) because unhappiness and resentment within the neglected people will only snowball overtime. He thinks that such snowballing would become a potential political crisis, which will do more harm to Sg than good. (Though a valid concern, but he has no statistics or proof to back it up) Mr. LTK also acknowledged that Mr. LKY's policies has to be like that in the past because it was a period of uncertainty and building the nation is priority. I thought Mr LTK was objective and made a really well speech, and thus, your remark about Mr LTK criticizing Mr LKY is unjustified.
Ivan Lim I accept your apology. I understand that there are an overwhelming out pour of tributes and praises since his death on early Monday. While I acknowledges his contributions, mainly how he dealt with Singapore with its people in mind, there were flaws of him as well, such as locking up oppositions, which he admitted to in recent years. His passing does not cloud me from the fact that the PAP of today does not reflect on his believes when he was in his prime, and it remains a fact that we should be very worried about our future. Cheers!
OralMaster There may be no criticism but he included his political views in a session that is meant to pay tribute....thats pure insensitive and at a wrong timing. On a different day, there is nothing wrong with it but not on this day.
The only opposition I respect is Chiam Chee Tong. Low Thia Khiang and his team cannot match up to Chiam. I really don't respect Low Thia Khiang based on what I have seen in his character and his team's character.
Laughable. Couldn't give a speech in English? Actually, scratch that. Hearing him speak in English is akin to nails on chalkboard. A painful experience.
S Serv There is nothing laughable about giving a speech in Mandarin. MPs can speak in all official languages in the parliament. Apart from LTK, there are also many MPs, PAP ones included, who spoke in languages other than English. There are also enough people who voted him to represent them in the parliament even if he could only speak in Mandarin.
Regret that the opposition leader had to use his tribute to our founding father to promote a 2 party system. He has every right to do so but there is always another place and time to do it. Totally inappropriate and such a disappointment! Think about it.......Tsk Tsk. To be very clear, I am a neutral when it comes to LTK. I am a huge fan of LKY. If anyone disrespect LKY, he or she should be taken to task. If someone ask why bother to have elections if there is only supposed to be one party? If Michael Phelps can win every swim event, the IOC will not be canceling the swimming competition during the Olympics. Having different parties contesting an election is different from having a credible opposition in Parliament. I am still waiting for that to happen. It would be self defeating to have an opposition for the sake of having an opposition. We can only have a 2 party system when we have another credible party besides the PAP. Nevertheless, let's be the bigger men and let this slide. I am sure our founding father would like see us united and focus on how to build on Singapore, rather than waste any more time on this.
This Guy cannot never make it. If WP runs Singapore under his leadership, game set and over for Singapore. (Anti PAP or PAP haters will post whatever comments they like). I'm a neutralist in politics btw.
If he cannot bring himself to give a respectable tribute, then dont do it! Who cares if he agrees with one-party system? This is irrelavant, and we do not care what he agrees or disagrees. As he said, LKY does not like people who utter 废话, he is uttering 废话 here! He really should not have even spoken.
I was curious about the big hooha about Mr Low's tribute towards Mr Lee and decided to watch the video. Personally, I feel it was well said and delivered in a very sincere manner. If you understand Mandarin, Mr Low did not speak badly about Mr Lee. What he did was that he gave full credit to Mr Lee for developing SG into what we are, today. Yes, there was a paragraph about how certain political decisions of Mr Lee had made him a controversial figure and more sensitivity could be injected into rational decisions in order to create less resentment so that it does not affect the nation's unity. Is that wrong? I did not think that was a political criticism. He was just stating a fact and making Mr Lee very human and ...therefore not perfect; Mr Lee is brilliant in this, this and this but he could do better in that... I thought Mr Low's speech is the most sincere and straightforward. I can tell you what he is not. He is not a hypocrite who disagree with a person when the person is alive and sing him all the praises when he has passed. And please, do not criticise his English. He was Chinese- educated and he speaks much better than a whole bunch of people who were educated in English. Humans are humans, humans do not suddenly become a saint when they passed away. There is no rule saying one have to say or remember only the good things when someone passed away. I think it is more important to be truthful. Show less
This guy is a dreamer.he can't even deliver what he promised. If we have more politicians Like him .Singapore will be finished.
The founding Prime Minister was an extraordinary political leader born out of that turbulent and uncertain era.
Singapore at that time was a small island and an unnoticeable city. Economically, it relied on entrepot trade. Militarily, it relied on protection from the British troops. When Singapore was forced to leave Malayasia, I don’t think many would have believed that Singapore could survive on its own, not to mention, to have imagined our achievements today.
We all know that during that period, the country was to be rebuilt from scratch and there was [a] high unemployment rate. Our neighbours were not particularly friendly either. To survive, we must have a global vision, foreign investment, and become part of the international market. However, this could put Singapore in danger of becoming a big country’s vassal and a pawn in the international political arena that can be sacrificed at any time.
These internal and external challenges were a grave test for Mr Lee. With outstand wisdom and courage, he traversed among the big countries and promoted Singapore’s values to them and the potential benefits that Singapore could provide. He had won the respect of the leaders of these major powers. Without his efforts, our economy could not have been successful and Singapore could not have achieved its status and its living space today.
For a small country to survive, besides a strong military defence, the political space is the key to maintain its national interest and its survival. In Singapore, fighting for independence and the continuous political struggle awakened Singaporeans political awareness. In the process of political movements and the fighting together, consensus was forged between the people and Mr Lee, as well as a common direction and mutual trust.
This is the main reason why Singapore can leap from the Third World to the First World within one generation. The success arose not just from Mr Lee’s extraordinary fighting spirit and his tenacity, but also from his sincerity.
However, I don’t think that the PAP one-party rule is the key to Singapore’s fast economic development, strong social cohesion and the unitedness. This is because many Singaporeans were sacrificed during the process of nation building and policy making; and our society has paid the price for it.
This is why Mr Lee is also a controversial figure in some people’s eyes. He crafted policies based on the situation then, and made rational judgment out of the interests of the country.
However, the choice and the implementation of policies is not just a rational decision, it should also take into consideration human nature and their sensitivity. Only by doing so can we avoid hurting people’s feelings and creating resentment. If accumulated over a long time, that resentment could become a potential political crisis and affect people’s unity and their identification with the country.
From my dealings with Mr Lee in Parliament, I don’t think he was an autocrat who didn’t listen. If you have strong reasons and tight arguments, and can win him over through policy debate, I think he will consider your views. I also know he was someone who hated empty talking because he thought time was precious and there were too many things to do.
Singapore is a multiracial society and every race has its own language and culture. In the early years of nation building, everyone hoped to maintain their advantages in this new country. How to manage the various conflicts of interests, unite people and build a national identity? [That] was a tremendous challenge.
Countries with similar situations as we were in the early days are still facing the same social conflicts brought about by multiracialism and multiculturalism. Some even face the danger of disintegration.
Singapore today is united regardless of race, language and religion. This is an achievement that is not possible without Mr Lee.
My deepest respect goes to founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Oxford definition of Tribute- An act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration.
I think a lot of people are overly sensitive this week. The speech had no intention to criticize LKY. It just mentioned that a lot of hard-handed measures had to be done during that era and sacrifices made, only LKY had the strength of character to do these things. It's meant to be a form of respect.
It takes courage to speak one's own mind when they are the minority. LKY was opposition before and he had guts to speak his own mind and put forward his opinions in front of the Labour front. Had LKY remained quiet, he wouldn't have earned the respect of our people and Singaporeans would not have voted him as our leader.
Mr Low Thia Khiang is just speaking his mind. Stop flaming please.
There may be no criticism, there may be lots of courage
But there sure is a LOT of disrespect
Muk Lee But Low Thia Khiang does not have the courage to apologise when his party makes mistakes eg. town council mismanagement of funds and bad governance (unlawful methods). In Singapore, you do not need a lot of courage to speak out, that's why people like Worker's Party have exploits their rights suggesting unworkable ideals in the parliament .. wasting everybody's time.
There's nothing wrong with his speech if u understand mandarin!
Jenny Sim Well, I understand Mandarin, completely. Better than you, perhaps. Qn is, did you understand my comment?
The parliament is not a memorial service hall. A parliament speech does not have to be a eulogy singing only praises. Kudos to Low Thia Khiang for daring to speak up and provide a balanced perspective. Time to move on from an era of fear of speaking up and challenging the ruling party.
zuvaloppa yes, a parliament is not a memorial hall, but a tribute is still a tribute! who will use the opportunity of a tribute to raise his disagreement towards a death person, this is extremely disrespectful.LTK as a politician should understand how most of the Singaporeans feel about losing Mr Lee Kuan Yew, its a very wrong move of him.maybe many Singaporeans kudos to LTK and his team for daring to raise their concern, but on this occasion is very inappropriate.
I agree that the Parliament House is not a "ORDINARY" memorial service hall, but this is also NOT another ORDINARY parliament sitting --- This is a SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY SITTING to commemorate The One who make this nation, that is, what it is today in the world for you and me to live in.
This is NOT about daring to speak up or not, IT IS BASIC PUBLIC BEHAVOR About being RESPECTFUL for the dead (NOT JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY ELDERLY WHO PASSED AWAY) and also about SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Frankly, if my late father still around and i do such things as he did, My late father will punish me for being disrespectful and as he will say BO-GA-XI and i will bring disgrace to him cause people will think that he did not educate me on such basic behavor/moral/character...
Freedom of speech does not mean saying things as we like, but must have substance...
This is a parliamentary session to pay tribute to our founding father, not a parliamentary session per se.
Oxford definition of Tribute- An act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration. Ordinarily, reasonable folks would not be taking offense with Low's view as he is entitled to it. It is the time, place and manner that he raised his views that is disrespect to the our beloved LKY who get us where we are today that I suspect is truly offensive to many.
I don't find anything wrong with this speech, instead, I find it a well said speech.
timing is very important...and now its pure insenstive
Sounds more like an appraisal than a tribute. And if it's a tribute, leave the negative or differing opinions for another time. I don't know for sure what Mr Low was thinking and wanted to convey, I only feel that his tribute to Mr Lee left a somewhat bitter aftertaste after I viewed this video.
There no wrong in his speech. To put things simple, Low plainly describe Lee had to do what he did during his time to push sg to what it is today. n thank Lee for uniting a nation and his contribution. Do not jump into conclusion by misinterpreting its meaning from social media, cause most of them are out to screw opposition than maintain neutral.
Love him, Hate him. Mr lee in my view is the greatest man we have least in my generation in Singapore and is a legend. No one can ever surpass what he did. May he rest in peace.
Cause our old man passed away, now everyone think's they are now a patriot ? keyboard warriors :T . 4:20 for all those who wanna say anything about how we should just mourn and sing praises.
Know what our old man has done for us, respect it or hate it its not for us to judge. but respect him for his dedication to our nation. period.
I was curious about the big hooha about Mr Low's tribute towards Mr Lee and decided to watch the video. Personally, I feel it was well said and delivered in a very sincere manner. If you understand Mandarin, Mr Low did not speak badly about Mr Lee. What he did was that he gave full credit to Mr Lee for developing SG into what we are, today. Yes, there was a paragraph about how certain political decisions of Mr Lee had made him a controversial figure and more sensitivity could be injected into rational decisions in order to create less resentment so that it does not affect the nation's unity. Is that wrong? I did not think that was a political criticism. He was just stating a fact and making Mr Lee very human and ...therefore not perfect; Mr Lee is brilliant in this, this and this but he could do better in that...
I thought Mr Low's speech is the most sincere and straightforward. I can tell you what he is not. He is not a hypocrite who disagree with a person when the person is alive and sing him all the praises when he has passed. And please, do not criticise his English. He was Chinese- educated and he speaks much better than a whole bunch of people who were educated in English.
Humans are humans, humans do not suddenly become a saint when they passed away. There is no rule saying one have to say or remember only the good things when someone passed away. I think it is more important to be truthful.
You just keep singing the same old song. 'Breadtalk' la
Nothing wrong with his speech.
There are other PAP ministers also making their tribute in Chinese...
LTK you are pure opportunist lol, not for you to judge mr Lee
Why don't they transcribe these with subtitles in English?
this suppose to be a Special Parliamentary Sitting held to pay tribute to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. it is extremely inconsiderate to criticize our founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew!
i feel sorry for him for being such a petty man who uses such opportunity to raise his his disagreement and negative opinion towards Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
Without Mr Lee Kuan Yew, there will be no Singapore, hence there will be no Worker Party.
Mr Low, you just lost my vote.
I think it's very inconsiderate to criticise our late Mr LKY when the nation is still in mourning of his passing. Mr LTK, you just lost my respect for you,
he didn't criticize Mr LKY... He is just saying that the new policies now should also consider the Singaporean well-being (unlike Mr LKY's policies in the past) because unhappiness and resentment within the neglected people will only snowball overtime. He thinks that such snowballing would become a potential political crisis, which will do more harm to Sg than good. (Though a valid concern, but he has no statistics or proof to back it up)
Mr. LTK also acknowledged that Mr. LKY's policies has to be like that in the past because it was a period of uncertainty and building the nation is priority.
I thought Mr LTK was objective and made a really well speech, and thus, your remark about Mr LTK criticizing Mr LKY is unjustified.
Ivan Lim I accept your apology. I understand that there are an overwhelming out pour of tributes and praises since his death on early Monday. While I acknowledges his contributions, mainly how he dealt with Singapore with its people in mind, there were flaws of him as well, such as locking up oppositions, which he admitted to in recent years. His passing does not cloud me from the fact that the PAP of today does not reflect on his believes when he was in his prime, and it remains a fact that we should be very worried about our future. Cheers!
Josh Yang please brush up on your mother tongue so that you can fully comprehend and infer from Mr Low's speech.
OralMaster There may be no criticism but he included his political views in a session that is meant to pay tribute....thats pure insensitive and at a wrong timing. On a different day, there is nothing wrong with it but not on this day.
是由衷之言吗？
very wrong of him to say LKY is inhuman. You will never get my vote
LKY: A big man on a small stage
LTK: A small man on a big stage
if without this guy singapore then would be doomed please..
never liked him, never will
The only opposition I respect is Chiam Chee Tong. Low Thia Khiang and his team cannot match up to Chiam. I really don't respect Low Thia Khiang based on what I have seen in his character and his team's character.
Laughable. Couldn't give a speech in English? Actually, scratch that. Hearing him speak in English is akin to nails on chalkboard. A painful experience.
S Serv There is nothing laughable about giving a speech in Mandarin. MPs can speak in all official languages in the parliament. Apart from LTK, there are also many MPs, PAP ones included, who spoke in languages other than English. There are also enough people who voted him to represent them in the parliament even if he could only speak in Mandarin.
Nothing to be laughable. English is a foreign language. Those who cant even speak their mother tongue well are then the laughable lot.
Your Tribute contains a "Low Blow". That's not very gracious.
2：55 - 4：00 说得好，忠言往往逆耳。
Regret that the opposition leader had to use his tribute to our founding father to promote a 2 party system. He has every right to do so but there is always another place and time to do it. Totally inappropriate and such a disappointment! Think about it.......Tsk Tsk.
To be very clear, I am a neutral when it comes to LTK. I am a huge fan of LKY. If anyone disrespect LKY, he or she should be taken to task.
If someone ask why bother to have elections if there is only supposed to be one party? If Michael Phelps can win every swim event, the IOC will not be canceling the swimming competition during the Olympics. Having different parties contesting an election is different from having a credible opposition in Parliament. I am still waiting for that to happen. It would be self defeating to have an opposition for the sake of having an opposition. We can only have a 2 party system when we have another credible party besides the PAP.
Nevertheless, let's be the bigger men and let this slide. I am sure our founding father would like see us united and focus on how to build on Singapore, rather than waste any more time on this.
This Guy cannot never make it. If WP runs Singapore under his leadership, game set and over for Singapore. (Anti PAP or PAP haters will post whatever comments they like). I'm a neutralist in politics btw.
It's a joke to see him. Praise then comment on our founding father. Whatever... No gratitude.
人家都死了，还不依不饶的，真真够了
If he cannot bring himself to give a respectable tribute, then dont do it!
Who cares if he agrees with one-party system? This is irrelavant, and we do not care what he agrees or disagrees.
As he said, LKY does not like people who utter 废话, he is uttering 废话 here! He really should not have even spoken.
He can* never make it.
i think all these naysayers have abamdoned their account already..
I was curious about the big hooha about Mr Low's tribute towards Mr Lee and decided to watch the video. Personally, I feel it was well said and delivered in a very sincere manner. If you understand Mandarin, Mr Low did not speak badly about Mr Lee. What he did was that he gave full credit to Mr Lee for developing SG into what we are, today. Yes, there was a paragraph about how certain political decisions of Mr Lee had made him a controversial figure and more sensitivity could be injected into rational decisions in order to create less resentment so that it does not affect the nation's unity. Is that wrong? I did not think that was a political criticism. He was just stating a fact and making Mr Lee very human and ...therefore not perfect; Mr Lee is brilliant in this, this and this but he could do better in that...
I thought Mr Low's speech is the most sincere and straightforward. I can tell you what he is not. He is not a hypocrite who disagree with a person when the person is alive and sing him all the praises when he has passed. And please, do not criticise his English. He was Chinese- educated and he speaks much better than a whole bunch of people who were educated in English.
Humans are humans, humans do not suddenly become a saint when they passed away. There is no rule saying one have to say or remember only the good things when someone passed away. I think it is more important to be truthful.
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I agree with u. What he shared is really what lky did from the past... Nothing bad abt lky. It is the facts compare to others tributes lar.
Ya agree.. he is oppsition party have to understand he cant side a ruling party in his speech.. but most importantly he show deep respect for Mr Lee