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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 14 2017, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the dissidents-beware dept.

Amos Yee is set to give his first ever public talk at Harvard.

Yee is a teenager from Singapore who has recently been granted political asylum in the US. He was in trouble with the Singaporean regime for repeatedly criticizing the country's late founder, Lee Kuan Yew. His treatment has been marginally better in the US. Although he was granted asylum by the US back in March, he was held in US jail until late September where he ran in to difficulties for his ongoing criticism of Islam. Currently, he is banned from Facebook for alleged, unspecified "community standards" violations. His videos are available on YouTube.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:45AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:45AM (#596625)

    I had no idea who he was so I read a few articles and his Wikipedia page, he seems like a douche. Sure, he's young, but I have the feeling he won't grow out of it. Dude bailed him out, he accused dude of molesting him, retracts, accuses again, then gets pedantic about it. That shows the kind of shitty personality that he has. Singapore has some fucked up laws, and he was right to criticize, but I can't help wishing someone would beat him up real good a few times, maybe he will stop being such a dickhead.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by dwilson on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:59AM (2 children)

    by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:59AM (#596677) Journal

    I can't help wishing someone would beat him up real good a few times, maybe he will stop being such a dickhead.

    On the one hand, I agree with you. Whole-heartedly.

    On the other hand, off the top of my head I cannot think of a single instance in my life where I've seen such a beating produce the required result. At best, it teaches them to be sneaky about it.

    On the third hand... which I don't actually have, but if I did.. I'd still agree with you. Not sure what that says about me.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:20AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:20AM (#596679)

      What it says about you is that you like abusing people, and are well trained to make it look socially acceptable.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @01:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @01:59PM (#596783)

        It's why my wife always has the biggest smile and black eye!

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:10AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:10AM (#596697) Journal

    he seems like a douche. Sure, he's young, but I have the feeling he won't grow out of it. Dude bailed him out, he accused dude of molesting him, retracts, accuses again, then gets pedantic about it.

    Oh, my! I say, send in the Milo! This will make a very much more better coupling than Milo and some long dong Silver, Away! And it has the opportunity to bring in the alienated, unmarried due to the one-child policy in Chaina! radical asian Youth. I, for one, have always been in favor of Youth in Asia. And now, we have the chance to "Make Asia Great Again, Ignoring that it was it's Original Greatness that Caused it to Fall, repeatedly, over several Dynasties". That. And this young boy could be the key to all this. Or at least Milo could teach him what that Pedophile Catholic Priest taught Milo, several years ago before Milo became all old, and, you know, yucky. Perhaps we could get Senatorial Republican Pedophile Candidate Roy Moore to join in on the buggery. Only one small step for a pedophile man, but one Giant step for Libertarians everywhere, who have always wanted to do this kind of stuff, with kids, and not be mocked by the liberal left with all their "political correctness" when it comes to minors, or barnyard animals, or fellow female comediens in your hotel room.

    Butt all that booty to the side, what is it about Nazis, fascists, Libertarians, and Buzzards, not to mention some who may be inclined to run away from this discussion, with the gay sex? Surely, it cannot be all that interesting? I mean, yeah, I understand the mechanics, but never the allure. It seems that the alt-right does "get-it", and perhaps on a regular basis? And this fine article is only yet another instance of the gay-sexed alt-right plan for World Domination, or at least more arrest-free sex with young persons of the same gender, or animals.