A TEENAGE blogger has found herself in the soup after comments she made in her online journal were criticised by many Internet users for being insensitive and elitist.

Raffles Junior College student Wee Shu Min, a daughter of MP Wee Siew Kim, sparked a heated debate on the Internet when she derided another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, for his views on the anxieties of Singapore workers.

Both Miss Wee’s father and the principal of RJC told The Straits Times yesterday that she had been counselled for using insensitive language.

Miss Wee, a second-year student on RJC’s Humanities Scholarship Programme, has since shut down her blog and apologised for her comments, though not directly to Mr Derek Wee.

Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation, had written in his blog on Oct 12 that he was concerned about competition from foreign talent and the lack of job opportunities for older workers here.

He urged the Government to understand Singaporeans’ plight.

Last Thursday, Miss Wee responded to him on her blog, calling him old and unmotivated and said he was overly reliant on the Government.

In dismissing his views, she wrote:

‘Derek, Derek, Derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron rice bowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?

‘There’s no point in lambasting the Government for making our society one that is, I quote, ‘far too survival of the fittest’… If uncertainty of success offends you so much, you will certainly be poor and miserable.’

She concluded by telling Mr Wee to ‘get out of my elite uncaring face’

Her attack was criticised by hundreds of Internet users, who accused her of being elitist, naive and insensitive to the lives of Singaporeans from humbler backgrounds.

Though she has shut down her blog, her entry has been replicated on many websites and the issue is hotly debated.

Technorati, a website that tracks the activity of blogs, yesterday listed ‘Wee Shu Min’ as its third most frequent search term.

Mr Wee Siew Kim said he stood by his daughter’s ‘basic point’, but added: ‘As a parent, I may not have inculcated the appropriate level of sensitivity, but she has learnt a lesson.’In his statement, RJC principal Winston Hodge said:

‘We are disappointed with Wee Shu Min’s comments on Mr Derek Wee’s posting on the Web. ‘We have counselled Shu Min and have conveyed to her the importance of sensitivity and empathy, qualities that she should have exercised in her response to Mr Wee.

‘We are confident that she has learnt from this experience and will be the wiser for it.’

I am a little late in this but is this elitist’s bitch’s response and her views any surprise to anyone? And the fact she’s from RJC reminds me of a friend of mine who complains once to me how elitist and uncaring her younger RJC brother is.

I am now inclinced to agree with her ex-boyfriend that a lot of these conceited and pompous little elitist bastards is the result of the school they came from, and I won’t be surprise that the yappies with no burdens in life would have agreed with the little bitch and bashed Derek Wee too.

Anyway, there is REALLY nothing wrong with what Derek Wee has written. Anyone who doesn’t have a silver spoon in their mouths and no rich parents to back them up and provide them a job will understand and agree with what Derek Wee has written.

Wee Shu Min’s apology is not needed because it is my considered opinion that this opinion will last her a life time because I have heard the same shits coming from some of my acquaintances when they were teenagers and I still hear them today.

Personally speaking, it is best to just take away her scholarship and when it is her turn to join the work force, let her go and try get a job just like every other simple Joe and Jane, let her stay unemployed for a year or more while she sees jobs she’s qualified for taken away by ‘foreign talents’.

And to top that, when she’s 35, retrench her from her job and make her line entirely obsolete, then let her go retrain and wonder why she still couldn’t find a job in-spite of her ‘upgrading’.

Some people needs to be f**ked to the wall before they will learn the realities of life instead of thinking all’s just milk and honey in Tali-PAP’s politically socialist ‘utopia’.

It is only a real tragedy and a mishap in reality that this ‘uncaring elitist’ will never have to face the life every other Singaporean faces and I am wondering if she is doing this so she can beat Tammy as the most searched name in Singapore.

Gotten this from a friend on MSN:

Meritocracy has led to Elitism,
Elitism has become Despotism,
And Despotism will inevitably lead to Tyranny.

And I add: ‘And Tyranny, to Revolution.’

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