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What Makes Lee Kuan Yew Venerable?

I know that paying tribute to a political figure is a risky remark; after all, all powerful statesmen and stateswomen have left behind some trace of “atrocity” on their homelands or the wider world. The art of acclaiming a politician or statesman lies in weighing their contributions against their atrocities. For instance, for left-leaning students who want to brand Winston Churchill purely as a racist and imperialist while ignoring his contributions, they should be fully aware that, without Churchill’s resistance against Nazi Germany and the defeat of Mussolini’s Italy, they would likely have been consigned to concentration camps. By that…