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Carlton Tan
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Singapore Correspondent, Asian Correspondent
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By Carlton Tan| The Independent (Singapore) Verified By: Carlton TanThis Lee Kuan Yew lèse majesté nonsense is really just another example of a failure to consider the consequences carefully. I wrote about this last year:“Perhaps the only plausible state interest here would be that Mr Lee’s reputation is so inextricably bound with the state’s that if the state is to be protected, his reputation must be too. This is exactly the logic that governs lèse majesté. But as much as he ruled like one, Mr Lee is not, and never was, Singapore’s king.
By Carlton Tan| Asian Correspondent Verified When BreadTalk released a coconut flavoured bun as a tribute to the late Lee Kuan Yew, it did not anticipate a hostile reaction. But within moments of its announcement on the Straits Times Facebook page, netizens began accusing it of insensitivity and of trying to profit from the public’s grief.
By Carlton Tan| The Independent (Singapore) Verified By: Carlton TanThis Lee Kuan Yew lèse majesté nonsense is really just another example of a failure to consider the consequences carefully. I wrote about this last year:“Perhaps the only plausible state interest here would be that Mr Lee’s reputation is so inextricably bound with the state’s that if the state is to be protected, his reputation must be too. This is exactly the logic that governs lèse majesté. But as much as he ruled like one, Mr Lee is not, and never was, Singapore’s king.
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Asian Correspondent