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Dhevarajan Devadas, a research assistant at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), was pitchforked by netizens after former Nominated MP Calvin Cheng beseeched his followers to “tell him off” on Facebook.
Mr Dhevarajan previously wrote on Facebook about the arguments on taking down the statue of Sir Stamford Raffles.
He wrote, “There are plenty of roads and institutions bearing his name to remind us of him. But what it does mean is that we finally acknowledge the impact of colonialism on the indigenous people of this region by vacating his place of honour.”
“It would also be a potent signal that after more than five decades of independence. Singapore is finally ready to move out of its coloniser’s shadow.”
Mr Dhevarajan’s post, however, has since been taken down after receiving negative comments from netizens.
On Thursday (11 June), he took to Twitter on how he was pitchforked by the “Raffles fan club” and uploaded a few screenshots of the comments that were penned on his now-deleted Facebook post.
“The Raffles fan club is out with their pitchforks for me,” he wrote.
In the Twitter thread, he revealed that the “sudden flurry of abuse” was led by Mr Cheng’s Facebook post that alleged him of wanting to “copy the West and tear Sir Stamford Raffles’ statue down”, beseeching his Facebook followers to go on Mr Dhevarajan’s Facebook page to “tell him off”.
https://www.onlinecitizenasia.com/2...eng-beseech-his-fb-followers-to-tell-him-off/
