SINGAPORE — Being"woke" can be a good thing, if it means making people more socially aware of issues. But when it comes to changing social norms, it is better for the country to “make haste slowly" because"you never know what comes the day after", said presidential hopeful Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Saturday .
The annual conference, held at the Institute of Technical Education College East this year, was attended by around 200 youths. “If people are more socially aware of issues, I think that's a good thing. if people are wanting to stifle debate, or stifle responses, that's not a good thing,” he said. “It is so different now, and now we can be rightly concerned each time there's microaggression. And we want to roll it back and lean against it and then we'll stamp it out. So we have progressed, I think we can do more.”
Asked by another member of the audience how much race plays a part in politics or in holding important positions in national leadership, Mr Tharman said that in Singapore, race might only be an issue if candidates for a position are equal in their experience and personal ability.
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