The 2020 general election is over, but the Xiaxue saga is still raging on.
Remember Raeesah Khan? Before Sengkang residents made electoral history by voting Khan and her Worker’s Party team into parliament, she became the focus of media attention after a netizen lodged a police report against her for comments she made on Facebook.
Khan apologised for her comments, but Xiaxue decided it was imperative that the world know her thoughts on the matter.
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So, she posted this:
Xiaxue called Khan a “racist” and asked political parties to “stop fielding radical leftists/feminists as candidates”.
This was a huge mistake.
See, everyone has skeletons in their closets, but if you happen to be a person who’s even moderately famous, those skeletons might just be on your Twitter page.
One netizen who did a little digging found that Xiaxue posted some questionable tweets of her own in the past.
And so he made a police report against Xiaxue.
The saga should have ended there, but then it wouldn’t be a proper saga, would it?
Cancel Culture Video & Response
In response to the wave of online criticism, Xiaxue uploaded a 19-minute-long video on “Cancel Culture”, claiming she’s a victim of a witch-hunt organised by the “woke crowd” on the internet.
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In it, she attempted to explain the difference between “cancelling” and “boycotting”, and why one is more toxic than the other.
Some weren’t convinced, however.
Playwright Alfian Sa’at responded to Xiaxue’s video in a Facebook post on 23 July, where he addressed some of the arguments Xiaxue laid out.
Firstly, he said he disagreed with her distinction between “boycotting” and “cancelling”, as “cancelling” is, by her definition, how all boycotts work.
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He also challenged her assertion that ‘cancelling’ is carried out by “a select group of people”, citing the 28,000 signatures on an online petition to get Xiaxue charged.
“Ultimately, it is not mobs that ‘cancel’ a public personality; it’s the companies that do it by *actually* cancelling endorsement and advertising deals,” Sa’at explained.
Clicknetwork, a local online video network founded in 2007, subsequently announced that they’d be dropping Xiaxue as a host, following “recent events”.
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Netizens have also been calling upon other clients of Xiaxue’s to drop her as well due to her inflammatory comments.
Which brings us to today’s headline:
Xiaxue Has Made Her Blog & Twitter Private After Cancel Culture Saga; Allegedly Filed Protection Order
As a result of the public backlash, Xiaxue has reportedly filed a protection order and harassment suit against those who are trying to “cancel” her.
In an interview with Mothership, the blogger said that netizens have “crossed the line” with their reaction to her tweets by harassing her clients and sending “nasty messages” to her family members.
“I don’t foresee this behaviour stopping anytime soon and I feel when people try to destroy my livelihood and harass me non-stop, I should not just take it lying down,” she said.
“I just want to make it clear it’s not that I wish to shut anyone up just because they disagree with me. I respect their right to have their opinions, but they should not be defamatory in nature.
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“I do not resort to legal means often but sometimes it really crosses the line when real life ramifications like financial losses happens.”
According to her laywer and long-time friend Fong Wei Li, the court may regard a comment as “harassment” if it causes the person being cancelled to “feel alarmed or distressed”.
“It doesn’t matter that the comments are true; even a true comment, when publicised irresponsibly, can cross the line and become harassing in nature,” the lawyer said.
The 36-year-old blogger is also considering further legal action, reported Mothership.
Xiaxue’s Twitter and blog have also been made private, and when asked why, the blogger said that she “just doesn’t want to give the mob more fodder for now.”
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As Sa’at said earlier, however, Xiaxue has “built a career out of pissing on the marginalised and engaging in flame wars with other personalities”.
“You’ve made your bed out of pee and gasoline. Now, why complain about having to lie in it?”
Her Instagram and Facebook accounts are still public.
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