JULY 16 — Dear Khairy,
Thank you for your press statement on the Low Yat incident, which is full of common sense, but doesn’t actually address anything. I know you’re a bit busy making marathon runners miserable but could I suggest some things you could put into a future press release on top of what you’ve said?
One is outright condemnation of the violence that took place. Why all this coy “let the law investigate” business almost everyone and their grandma has already come out to say? Of course I agree you should let the police investigate. But one car thrashed — an object that took someone probably years to pay off — and five people severely beaten up — isn’t that worthy enough of condemnation pre-judgment of what actually started the violence?
If anyone is to speak truth to those petty thugs and numbnuts who attacked blameless people in a car and journalists doing their jobs, it should be you, de facto chief rempit. So why is it so hard for you to say these actions were disgraceful, cowardly and completely unbefitting anyone?
How are young Malaysians going to learn how to behave if there are no role models stating plainly that Malaysians — never mind Malays — do not act like this, you stupid gobloks? Is that too obvious a thing to say? I think not.
Nobody from Umno has said it. Plenty of ordinary people on social media and other political actors have. So I don’t think it’s actually an uncommon sentiment.
To my delight I find myself applauding the very measured way the police have handled the situation and am thoroughly grateful for their quick and strident assertion this was a theft, not a racial issue.
But rather than riding on that and ignoring many idiots’ sesat notion that this is an acceptable way to express ketuanan Melayu, or that those seven morons looking for a fight in the plaza were heroes of some sort, you need to grow some, and call it out. So everyone is clear as to the standards of behaviour we find unacceptable in this country, and no one is left in any doubt that such mindless violence, fuelled by gullibility and malicious stupidity on social media, is desirable.
Otherwise, in pandering to what is likely only a very small minority of snot-nosed toerags, you leave everyone in the country worried that this is, indeed, what ketuanan Melayu could look like in the wrong circumstances.
Of course it leaves non-Malays quivering and nervy, which is perhaps what you’d like the insecure to rejoice over. But how much sadder an indictment would that be of the state of the community and its leaders that, for some, that is a win?
Call it out, please. Say bloody hell no to racism.
#DonHitMe
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