Despite Amos Yee’s ‘Weird’ Habits in the US, His Mother Still Defended Him

Boon Hun

2018-12-14 , 11:19 am

In case you’ve missed it, Amos Yee is now back on the internet.

Ironically, it’s because he’s lost his voice on the internet.

Cue Flashback.

Amos Yee Banned on Twitter & Facebook

After Yee has settled down in the US, here’s what he’s been doing recently: advocating for paedophilia.

For those not in the know, here’s what it means:

Social media users don’t appreciate the type of content that Yee is posting on his social media accounts.

And they rallied together to get his accounts on Facebook and Twitter suspended.

Kind of like Dee Kosh’s social experiment, except this time, it’s real.

Melissa Chen, Yee’s Biggest Enabler For His Asylum in America, Wants Him Out

Meet Melissa Chen, the one who got asylum documents to Amos Yee when he was still in Singapore prison.

You could probably call her the greatest enabler of Yee’s successful asylum bid to the US.

On 10 Dec 2018, Melissa Chen uploaded a 10-minute explanation about her part in Amo’s escape from Singapore and what happened after.

But perhaps the strongest statement that she made was this:

“I am compelled to say Amos needs to be deported from the United States, and if he, in the process, gets sent back to jail in Singapore for going AWOL on National Service, I would find it extremely difficult to sympathise with that.”

She wanted it so much she even said she’ll escort him back to Singapore.

“Amos is a stain on Singapore, and a stain on the human race.”

Amos Yee’s Mother Response in Public Facebook Post

Now that Yee is voiceless on the internet, you’re thinking, he’s gone. But nope. Because a mother’s love knows no bound.

Yee’s mother, Mary Toh, wrote a Facebook post calling out Chen.

Oh, wait, wrong. The gist is there but she worded it more…wordfully.

If you’re not in the mood for long essays, here’s the TL;DR:

Toh felt that she had to respond to Chen’s video as Yee no longer have a platform to speak from.

She emphasised that she disagree with Yee’s positions on paedophilia. However, she felt that Chen could’ve spoken out against paedophilia in a different way.

The way Chen did it negatively affected the activists fighting against the anti-free speech laws in Singapore.

Chen is a Hypocrite

Toh claimed that Chen associate with hate groups like the KKK and White Supremacists.

She added that while Yee holds pro-paedophilic views, he had never once supported any direct harm to any child or group.

Toh asks Chen to show her evidence “that is not misrepresented or out of context” if there are.

She admitted that Yee’s views might contribute to direct harm against children. But, she added, so is Chen’s.

And when Chen said that she “wouldn’t mind” Yee getting deported back to Singapore and jailed for evading National Service, Toh alleged that Chen was against NS as well.

Stop Basing Your View on Hate Comments

On a final note, Toh told Chen to stop saying things based on peer-pressure.

She suspects that Chen made the video based on information provided by haters and advised that she should stop posting on the internet while “menstruating”.

She had also said that Yee has reached out to Chen for a private conversation and hopes she’ll take it up.

Yee’s communication and social skills have improved since the two years they’ve last spoken, she assured.

She wants Chen to take down the video and make a public apology to Amos Yee.

You know what mothers always say, right? 孩子永远是不会长大的 (children are kids that’ll I’ll always worry about).

What do you think? Agree or agree to disagree?