{"id":2243586,"date":"2024-05-13T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outgoing-singapore-prime-minister-slams-wokeness-as-burdensome-lifestyle\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T19:26:59","slug":"outgoing-singapore-prime-minister-slams-wokeness-as-burdensome-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outgoing-singapore-prime-minister-slams-wokeness-as-burdensome-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s departing prime minister criticizes &#8216;wokeness&#8217; as a burdensome lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foutgoing-singapore-prime-minister-slams-wokeness-as-burdensome-lifestyle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2063content contains a button for expanding\u200c the text, an indication of a &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; option. It also \u200bincludes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trailer-full-of-bibles-set-on-fire-on-easter-sunday-in-front-of-tennessee-church\/\" title=\"A trailer filled with Bibles was set ablaze on Easter Sunday outside a Tennessee church\">separator line<\/a> (<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>) and \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rare-4-8-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-new-york-city-area\/\" title=\"Uncommon 4.8 magnitude quake shakes New York City region\">hidden section<\/a> that seems to be related to an article \u200dabout Singapore, \u200cpossibly from the Washington Examiner website. The content features a &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button\u200d for \u200bexpanding text, \u200baccompanied by\u200b a separator line (<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>). Additionally, there is a concealed section suggesting relevance to\u200d an article about Singapore, likely sourced from the Washington Examiner website.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/singapore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Singapore <\/a>Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has defined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>\u201cwokeness\u201d<\/a> as a Western movement that enables people to be hypersensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/leehsienloong\/status\/1789959185972535329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"announced on Monday\">announced on Monday<\/a> he will be stepping down as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a> later this week after two decades in office, reflected on his core values and policies amid criticisms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/policy\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>tech companies\u2019<\/a> \u201cwoke\u201d policies. He argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/woke-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>woke culture<\/a> tends to lead to \u201cvery extreme attitudes and social norms.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou are super-sensitive about other people\u2019s issues, and you become hypersensitive when other people, somehow others say things or mention things or refer to you without the respect, which you or your super-subgroup feel you are entitled to,\u201d Lee explained in a CNA interview. <\/p>\n<p>He mentioned some conversations tend to include \u201cappropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pronoun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>pronouns<\/a>\u201d and \u201csafe spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee further mocked the concept of forewarning someone how offensive something might sound and giving them the option to leave before even hearing it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife becomes very burdensome, and I don\u2019t think we want to go in that direction,\u201d he said. \u201cIt does not make us a more resilient, cohesive society with a strong sense of solidarity. We must be more robust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee became Singapore\u2019s third prime minister in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s PM Lee Hsien Loong describes &#8220;wokeness&#8221; as a Western trend promoting hypersensitivity. After two decades in office, Lee reflects on his values and policies amidst criticisms of tech companies&#8217; &#8220;woke&#8221; stances, preparing to step down later this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3137,"featured_media":2243587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24120184542761.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24120184542761.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}