URA order over ‘offensive’ mural of samsui woman with cigarette sparks online debate

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the mural is “not aligned with Singapore’s anti-smoking policy stance...the woman depicted “looks more like a prostitute than a hard-working samsui woman” and was “offensive”.

“It’s kind of suppressing the potential of Singapore’s art and it’s a bummer,” he adds. “The people who make these rules are afraid of offending people or sending the wrong message to kids – and I do understand that – but sometimes you can’t avoid it when you are talking about certain subjects and talking about a historical subject

questions if public complaints are given too much weight in censorship decisions. “With the recent cancellation of the Science Centre lecture and now with this, I think about the power of complaint. How is it that different mediums can be censored or silenced because it isn’t to someone’s taste?” On June 2, Science Centre Singapore announced that it had cancelled an event organised to discuss the differences between sex and gender following public criticism.

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Qn: ‘The world today is too easily offended.’ How far do you agree?