Like the Singaporeans who have taken to social media to express their views, I was disturbed by the way Education Minister Ong Ye Kung cited a few lines from Alfian Sa'at's poetry to paint him as someone who might be disloyal to Singapore.
Mr Ong quoted these lines from Mr Alfian's well-known poem written when he was 21, Singapore You Are Not My Country:
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