Yet Ong Ye Kung, then the education minister, supported cancelling the course, declaring in Parliament that " political conscientisation" -when people become aware of how they are oppressed-" is not the taxpayer's idea of what education means" .

然而，当时的教育部长王乙康支持取消这一课程，他在议会宣称，“政治的意识觉醒”(当人们意识到自己如何受到压迫时)“并不是纳税人所认为的教育的意义”。