Netizens are not making life easy for the PAP PR team.
When PAP unveiled 27 new candidates for the 2020 General Election, no one could have foreseen the media shitstorm that followed.
All candidates who were introduced wore unnaturally wide smiles, so we assumed that they were all wonderful human beings, one charity donation away from a Nobel Peace Prize.
Take Ivan Lim, for instance.
Here he is, smiling and probably reminiscing about the last movie he watched at the cinema and how good it was.
He seems nice.
But just a few days after he was formally introduced by PAP, Lim withdrew his candidacy after some netizens accused him of elitist behaviour and of being arrogant as a national service commander, among other things.
Lim said the allegations were baseless and did not apologise.
Now, another candidate has been accused of not being nice enough to be a politician.
But at least he did smile to his neighbours lah coz no one came out to claim he was unfriendly to the neighbours #justsaying
PAP Candidate Shawn Huang Addressed Allegation That He ‘Threw Food’ During NDP 2018
A netizen took to Facebook on 28 June to complain about candidate Shawn Huang’s actions when he was a parade commander back in 2018.
The netizen, who is (or was) reportedly a warrant officer, alleges that Huang “threw” a packet of food back at their table after one of her servicemen offered it to him.
Lin claims Huang was “not happy” about being “turned away” initially.
They offered Huang food even though it was supposed to be for the participants because Huang was the parade commander.
“He thinks he is the parade commander is the biggest,” she said.
“Now he is one of the selected candidates? Seriously?”
According to Mothership, the post had been shared more than 1,000 times in less than a day, but was later taken down.
Huang’s Response
Huang responded to the allegation a few hours later in a Facebook post of his own.
According to Huang, the incident happened at an NDP Parade rehearsal in 2018. Huang was parade commander.
After the afternoon rehearsal, Huang discovered that no lunch had been catered for his group. So, he asked the warrant officer, reportedly the netizen, for a leftover packet of food since leftover rations would be disposed of in 30 minutes anyway.
But the warrant officer allegedly refused to issue Huang a set of rations. So, Huang went elsewhere to ask for a packet of food and managed to find one.
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After lunch, when he returned to the tent, Huang found a packet of food on his table. He told the warrant officer that he no longer needed it and “politely passed the ration back.”
“This was witnessed by Encik Azmi, WO (Special Functions) and CWO Ng Siak Peng,” he said.
Ah, got alibis.
In Huang’s eyes, this was simply a misunderstanding. Huang says he knows the warrant officer who made the complaint and tried to respond to the post to clarify things, but the post was removed.
“I wish her well and hope to be able to speak to her soon. My gratitude to many fellow serviceman who had posted messages of support,” Huang said.
Reader: Wait, you mean there’s a rational explanation for what happened and that we have to put our pitchforks down?
It seems like that.
Reader: Lame.
Investigate Every Allegation Before Making Decisions
With Polling Day less than two weeks away, more stories like Huang’s and Ivan Lim’s are bound to crop up.
But we need to investigate every claim before making a decision on whether a certain politician is worth our vote.
If someone, for example, tweeted that PM Lee used to fart in elevators before he left, you wouldn’t-
Reader: He did?!
I fear for the country if you’re one of our electors, dear reader.
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