A drama teacher in Singapore has taken to Twitter to complain about a nine-year-old student she encountered in one of her classes -- only to remove her tweets and account after receiving backlash for her views.

What was she upset about?

Her beef?

A child she was teaching in her drama class had behaved in a manner that was not woke enough and she told the boy off on the spot that it was his type of misguided views that is the cause of ethnic violence.

What did she tweet?

The series of six tweets on July 17 by the drama teacher also referred to the child as an "uncultured swine" and that she "wanted to strangle the kid".

These were the tweets and the circumstances that led to her calling out the boy's answers and behaviour:

Praised for correcting child

Over on Twitter, the drama teacher's tweets received support and empathy from some quarters who could relate to her having to deal with such microaggressions:

So happy to have people like yourself educating the new generation 😭❣️

— 𝓡𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓫𝓪𝓮 🍚 (@accordingtosash) July 17, 2019

The issue was also couched as a result of "Chinese privilege":

Backlash

But there were also those who criticised her for being too harsh on a nine-year-old, as the teacher was, after all, an educator who should not have shot down the views of a kid who did not know any better.

No honey no....you’re an educator. You play a part in educating children on all of this. You could have answered nicely and told him diffeeenr races / religion has their own beliefs. Use this topic as like a mini lesson to teach about foods in Singapore, pic.twitter.com/BHHI6PHFIC

— Qistina (@qistinarossmadi) July 17, 2019

Your goal should be to correct him, not through fear. Shouldn't you inspire him to find out more about what he doesn't know. Telling him that he might die for saying something without knowing the motivations behind why he said it is cruel and unfair

— Name cannot be blank (@EazonP) July 17, 2019

Maybe I don't understand the situation fully, maybe he was intentionally trying to provoke you to test your patience as a teacher. But I still don't think you'd make a good teacher if your response to a 9yo kid is telling him he'll die and then tweeting about it online.

— Name cannot be blank (@EazonP) July 17, 2019

In another of her now-deleted tweets, the drama teacher wrote that she would like to not teach drama classes to primary school children moving forward if she has more acting gigs to fall back on.

Ongoing debate on race and people's lived experiences

Debates about race and privilege in Singapore has been ongoing, with many quarters weighing in with their own lived experiences.

The disputes frequently centre around how legitimate are complaints of casual racism in Singapore, as well as how widespread it is given the younger generation's increasing wokeness in addressing and mitigating such issues.