Someone Chinese(?) at this IPS-onepeoplesg conf on workplace racial discrimination just said that we are a minority outside Singapore so we can understand what it’s like to be a minority. This prompted the White panelist (S’porean) to call himself a “minority of the minority”. /2

A broader point was made about “shared humanity” and “allyship” (which are good and fine), but the whole equivocation (appropriation?) of minority experiences made me incredibly uncomfortable.

Also notable how many people (guess which kinds) in the Q&A session tried to hijack a dialogue on race with questions about discrimination due to disability/age. Not that these factors are un-important, but obviously race isn’t important enough to them to stay on topic.