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Monday, 29 June 2009 10:09

By Neville Spykerman, The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have scoffed at Khairy Jamaluddin and urged him to look at himself and his own party before calling anyone else a racist.

The Umno Youth chief described DAP’s Lim Kit Siang as a “borderline racist” in a blog entry on Saturday.

He slammed the Ipoh Timur MP for describing the aborted unity talks between PAS and Umno as being against the concept of 1 Malaysia.

According to Khairy, this shockingly implied that Malay-Muslim unity was not good for the country.

However, PJ Utara MP Tony Pua said Umno and its youth chief should first denounce the concept of "Ketuanan Melayu" before calling anyone else racist.

He said unlike Umno, the DAP is not calling for Chinese or Indian unity but Malaysian unity.

“We fight for ‘Ketuanan Rakyat’ or people’s supremacy.” he said.

DAP’s Charles Santiago, in defending his party’s stalwart, said Lim was speaking out against Malay political hegemony or dominance in a multiracial Malaysia.

“Khairy is just trying to score brownie points among the Malays by hitting out at Lim.”

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written by Jan, June 29, 2009 10:26:12
He's a well documented racist who shamelessly calls others racist. I would be terribly embarassed to look at myself in the mirror if I were him.
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written by cheemengwong, June 29, 2009 10:28:35
It is about universal Humanity first
Then the country and its Raayat
After that we can talk about race, culture, religion beliefs.
and ... never the bottom up.

Where was this Khairy guy schooled. Did he used any of the Raayat's money? How come so ignorant?

There is najis/shit everywhere...clean it up even it it is at your neighbors walkway. You may accidently step on it.
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written by apasalahku, June 29, 2009 10:39:54
This dude got his Youth post by playing money politics, something his 'Supreme Council' decided but interestingly allowed him to keep the post; and not take further action.

This shows he can bloody well do and say whatever he wants in Malaysia and you peasants just gotta suck it up. In a few years, he could even blow people up and get away with it.
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written by Wisdom above, June 29, 2009 11:01:49
" people’s supremacy ” or ‘Ketuanan Rakyat’ will continue to prevail.

The oxford educated KJ should support " people’s supremacy ” as the best solution to all woes !
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written by sydput, June 29, 2009 11:03:25
Ugama, bangsar dan negara is the phrase all UMNO's politician (including Dr M) normally uses.
Rakyats are therefore expected to serve as slaves to the three entities.
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written by budaktapah, June 29, 2009 11:19:55
dear yb lks...no point arguing with a monkey........
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written by asianguy, June 29, 2009 12:42:56
Khairy, what's the point of getting an expensive Oxford education when it still doesn't teach you to recognise your own blatant racist opinions? Yet everyone else in Malaysia who do not have the opportunity of a British education sees your racism clearly and unequivocally. This is a total embarrassment for Oxford.
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written by C360, June 29, 2009 13:28:43
its ok ... so long as the laws of the country are equally applied as far as sedition is concerned ... so calling anyone a racist is ok, as far as i can tell from the inaction by the police on a PUBLIC access blog ...

by the way the UK courts have determined that a blog is a PUBLIC medium ...
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written by Loh, June 29, 2009 20:02:31
Racists may be divided into benevolent racists and malignant racists. The formers are those who able to empathize with people who they consider to belong to the same blood line. Though they might believe their ‘race’ to be more superior to others, and they believe that they can work better and cooperate better with people of the same race, they do not actively work against the interests of other races. The malignant racists are those people who might or might not care about the welfare of their own race, but they would be hostile to people who are different from them in terms of bloodline. Racist thought might be inherent in normal human being. It becomes harmful when racists organize people of their own kind to carry out hostile activities against others.

Institutions are organizations which are recognized by the law of the land. When it is the law of the country which favours one racial group against others, it is institutionalized discrimination. That could be mitigated within the agreed context of helping an endangered race, for which protection and special care was needed. For that purpose, the protected ‘species’ ought to be clearly defined, and the number should not be ever increasing. Obviously, the more numerous the beneficiary, the harder is the burden the disadvantaged groups have to bear. Moreover the longer such inequality exist in the society, the worse the intensive polarization based on the characteristics of qualification for the different treatment would arise Thus, persons who deserved such largesse should be controlled to lessen the pains the disadvantage group had to bear.

Article 153 was included in the constitution to be in force for 15 years, and subject to review. It may be reasonable to provide some ‘compensation’ to those who were born before independence for changes which might arise when the change took effect on 31 August, 1957 on Independence Day. For those who were born after independence, they come to this world on the same condition that they found on their birth, which is that people are equal under the constitution. The 15 years duration for special assistance or reservation of quotas for Malays was intended to help Malays to advance in business, profession or occupation, and to help their children to have a head start. It was not intended to allow Malays to avail themselves of unfair advantages; and certainly it was not intended for them to enjoy the unfair advantages from cradle to grave.

With the non-water-tight definition on the terms Malays provided in the constitution, which understandably was intended to be crucial for a limited period, not only those which were wrongly classified anthropologically are so included, but those whose ancestors were not Malayans were included. We have now more NEWMalays than Malays, and they now form the numerical strength to ensure that the unfair advantages remain perpetually. The restrain preventing Malays from asking for the Article 153 to be held in perpetuity was the pride of Malays, according to the late Tun Ismail. But NEWMalays can hardly be expected to empathize with Malays on their pride, and they would not forgo the opportunities the loophole in the constitution provides.

Malay in no longer a race based on anthropological classifications. It is opportunism that people such as Muyyiddin who claimed that the last drop of blood would be spilled to protect Article 153. That was not pure racism; it is racial opportunist.

Religion is a private matter, and though in the past there were religious leaders who led their followers to be belligerent against believers of other religions. In Malaysia, because Muslim is a classification required as membership to the unfair political advantages, people of the relevant religion are now more inclined to ‘protect’ their religion, as though they are larger than the religion, and that they have a monopoly in the country. One wonders how much of their fight was for political interest that avails them of the unfair advantages.

The country is said to be sitting on time bomb because of racial and religious polarization. The institutional set up which allowed the benefit of diversity to be converted to a curse was due to the desire of UMNO leaders to exploit the situations so that they could plunder the state with impunity, and to ensure that they could build political dynasties for ages. The fact that the son of PM becomes PM, and sons of other PMs awaiting at the wing testifies to this.
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