Why save Bajib’s version of Malaysian Unity? It’s an obvious shadow play. Malaysian Unity is just another Great Malaysian Lie, one that all Malaysian political parties subscribe to.

You will never, ever be united while you continue to subscribe to the discriminatory policies and practices of the last few decades. DAP should accept that they are also not blame-free in this respect, as even their party symbol reinforces the distinction and separation of Malaysians by race:

http://dapmalaysia.org/newenglish/au_sr.htm

How are DAP to explain to the peoples of East Malaysia – the people who prevented PR from winning the last election (PR won on votes in Peninsular Malaysia right? BN is the minority govt on the Peninsula isn’t it?) – that they are ‘Others’ in their own land?

I don’t respect this call from LKS to save Najib’s 1Malaysia. I want to see Absolutely Anybody Else’s 1Malaysia being supported – one that isn’t based on dividing the people of Malaysia up into 3 arbitrary in-breeding groups and 1 set of rejects. It’s time to face up to the fact that if you really want a Bangsa Malaysia, you have to stop deliberately dividing the people.

Look at the cow-head issue and the content of this blog. That’s a problem of outrageously inconsistent policing and unpunished public threats of violence. Someone said “it’s an MIC issue stay out” and several others said “non-Muslims need not worry”. Are we to believe inconsistent policing and idiots threatening violence in public are things a non-Indian, non-Muslim person could comfortably ignore?

If you want to be part of the solution, you have to stop being part of the problem. If the solution is 1 Malaysia, you have to get rid of that ‘4Malaysias’ in your party symbolism. and attitudes. 4Malaysias is precisely the problem.

And they accuse me of nitpicking. I think what a person wrote continues to be the same thing for as long as it does not change. If you asked limkamput what he made that caused the smell in the kitchen, he might answer “What I made is a cake!”, unless he had eaten it before answering in which case he would have to say “what I made was a cake”.

In speech, “what I said was” is usually correct, because the words are lost. In writing, we could also say “what I said [wrote] is” because it continues to be the same – verifiably so.

I’m not an expert on English, but in the context, “was” or “is” seems reasonable to me.

Aiyah, OrangRojak, Y so sensitive one
Thin end of the wedge, mate. I’ve also been exposed to too many ‘zero tolerance’ programmes, obviously.

I have an aunt whose ancestors were far more recently from Africa then ours were. Her sisters call her ‘nigger’ when they’re joking around, but her husband (my father’s brother) doesn’t get to call her that.

In crazy moments, I too have considered opening a restaurant in Malaysia called ‘White Food’ or ‘The Slightly Longer Sausage’. I can’t help thinking, however, that there has to be a better way of making a living than as a freak show.

While I was lecturing in the UK, one of my studentswas a bright young woman from Shanghai. She was very chatty, and asked me about my first trip to Malaysia, so I told her all the new words I’d learned like “Mat Salleh”, “Orang Puteh”, “Ang Mo”, “Bai Zhong Ren”. She laughed at Bai Zhong Ren and said it was funny. I laughed too and asked her if I could call her “Huang Zhong Ren”. She suddenly looked angry and said “You must never say that. It is very rude.”

Perhaps racial epithets can sometimes be used between people who share the referred-to characteristics as a way of bringing them closer together? I’m not so sure. I am convinced that casually highlighting those characteristics which are not shared will only push people apart. I don’t think that’s a good thing.

I’m not personally offended, if it helps – skin thickens with age. Perhaps ‘frustrated’ is closer to what I feel, when I read things like that on the blog of a man who is close to being the most credible proponent of unity and equality in Malaysia. I asked about ‘motivation’ because it didn’t seem like you posted the link to Kessler’s interview with the intention of objecting to him personally – and that’s the impression I got from the racial epithet.

I don’t want to make a big deal out of a (comparatively) small matter. I am in no doubt as to how effective I could be as a one-man ‘Race Relations Act’!