Justin Wee is a first year student from the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), seen making vulgar and racist jokes while in a drunk stupor in an online video:
Lu Jia Hui is a National University of Singapore (NUS) student who shot the video (as evidential in the video when Justin kept calling out to Jia Hui to stop the recording) and uploaded the offensive video online (as evidential in this EDMW thread where he contacted YouTube to claim copyright infringement over a reposted video):
Both of them are now in trouble with their respective university authorities for the saga.
Most of the public condemnation was directed at Justin.
I think the latter is worse.
Justin was drunk. I do not think Jia Hui was drunk when he recorded the video, judging from his steady grip on the camera. I do not think he was drunk either when he uploaded the video online.
Yes, the jokes were not funny and racist.
Nonetheless, if a video was not recorded and posted online, the whole incident, though tasteless, would just be confined to the memories of those present on that drunken night.
The person who made the conscious decision to upload the video online and broadcast it to the masses is the one most guilty of racism from my point of view.
What do you think?
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