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Let's talk about Ivan Lim Shaw Chuan.
There has been chatter about his, shall we say, not too pleasant qualities.
Here’s someone talking about his experience with him in Keppel.
Then there’s someone talking about him as an OC (Officer in Command)
And another testimony of him, revealing a penchant for abuse and brown nosing
Then when he was a CO, where his own RSM was unimpressed with him, to say the least.
So, the barrage of commentary that has stretched and overlapped pretty much all of Ivan’s adult life has shown him to be condescending, arrogant, belittling and treating his subordinates as inferiors, and is quite obviously a very skilled brown-noser.
And all this in Singapore, where people are hesitant to speak out against power!
There’s an excuse to be made if he was a clown at some point in his life. But to be that consistently reviled? That’s a character defect.
The party has stood behind him, with Masagos Zulfiki saying that there is an ‘opportunity to redeem themselves’ https://mothership.sg/2020/06/ivan-lim/
It must be nice to have a 5-year taxpayer funded redemption package, where you get $16000 a month, excepting Ministerial and senior parliamentarian roles which increase that package.
(I hope friends like @kixes will get this chance someday)
But the party's defence of Ivan is also a way of closing ranks, and a refusal to admit wrongdoing. They have chosen a candidate that they feel is suitable, and they are sticking with him.
I do hope that there is a lot more charity, if that is the case, when an example as egregious like this is made an exemplar of redemption, whilst others on the opposite end of the political spectrum cannot afford to make a mistake.
At the same time, as voters, we have to think very clearly - what does it say of a party's values when they see a character like this as redeemable?
(There will be the inevitable claims that these accounts are fake. But these people are online, they have real profile pictures, real, populated friends lists. This is no poison pen incident, unlike the one done to Daniel Goh in 2015)
