We were waiting, and Preetipls delivered. Watch the response to THAT social experiment video that left us all reeling at racism in Singapore. Again.
We all watched and cringed. After that CNA Insider social experiment video aired, which placed young mum Divya with a Singaporean Chinese family whose kids were afraid of Indians, there was equal outrage and defensiveness in the comments that rolled out, but what hit us hard was the wave of sadness that this kind of thing still goes on. We don’t want to give casual (or not so casual) racism any more air time, but it would be criminal not to give a salute to Singapore’s rising social media satirist Preetipls (civilian name Preeti Nair) for her epic clapback video. In just a few hours after going live, it racked up 162k views with over 2.5k shares. Bow down.
If you aren’t already acquainted, Preetipls has been pressing all the right buttons with her satire vids (or indulging us by rapping about Divali). She’s the kind of girl you should be binge watching when you’ve gone down the Facebook rabbit hole, and yes it bugs us she’s just 23 and is so damn good.
As for her take on the social experiment? This time, we follow Xiao Long as he spends three days with the Nair family (because he doesn’t want his kids to one day say “Wah! Daddy is a racist bastard”). Watch and learn:
PREETIPLS GETS A HOUSE GUEST!?!
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN u mix ONE-PART YELLOW + FOUR-PARTS BROWN = ????????? 👦👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿👦🏿 ??? [[racist clickbait]] WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A YOUNG chinese SINGAPOREAN with NO INDIAN FRIENDS, SPENDS 3 DAYS W the crazy sexy sophisticated NAIR FAMily, whose children think that Chinese people are “SCARY”??? 🚫❌❌😱🔪🔪🔪An #OnTheRedDot social experiment.LOL @ their hashtag btw 😂 watch my parody now!!! Rmb to watch the original 🙃 link here: https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/videos/1557118710977467/
Posted by Preetipls on Sunday, 26 November 2017
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