"Whatever you instruct to grasp in a future, it must proceed by suggestive where you have been in a present - not where you instruct you were, or where you instruct others to think you are, yet where you have been in fact."- Thomas Sowell (Economic Facts as well as Fallacies)
COMMENTSo, let me get this straight. Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevasan believes which secular politics should finish as well as a approach to finish it would be to engage in more... secular politics?
National Indian Rights Action Team's (Niat's) rsther than self-indulgent list of demands, you contend self-indulgent since a single of a components of a 3 cabinet ministers post as well as four emissary ministers reserved (for Indians) would not usually embody inaugurated member yet additionally (surprise, surprise) those appointed from NGOs.
Question. If a Chinese or Malay NGO candidate/elected deputy has done "more" for a Indian village which an Indian candidate, would a said particular still be considered for a 'Indian-only' post?
I would gamble my last ringgit which if Pakatan Rakyat (if they ever come in to sovereign power) were to announce such a strategy, they would be perceived with open arms by a certain territory of a Malaysian choosing by casting votes public who explain to be interested in a race-blind society yet who in being understand a code Pakatan uses to demonstrate a commitment to a suspicion which their secular expectations would be met in a some-more "honest" demeanour by a non-BN government.
I do not th! ink a de vise is "too idealistic", you think it's downright myopic, cynical as well as detrimental to any arrange of "racial harmony" which oppositional sorts similar to to contend is part of a 'change' bulletin as well as a kind of secular nonsense Umno-BN has been peddling for decades. Can you suppose a fallout if this were a group of Chinese NGOs carrying a list of d! emands for a government?
The editorial warlocks over atUtusan Malaysiaand a Perkasa thugs would be carrying epileptic fits as well as Umno would be leaping for happiness during a astonishing asset of essentially being in a Pakatan in front of of you do zero whilst their counter fire himself in a foot.
Poor DAP, whilst their golden boy Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has to go out of his approach to calm Malay nerves which nobody in his party would ever seek a highest bureau in a land, here you have Indians NGOs being satisfied with second best as well as worse of all a in front of since to them by their Malay masters.
It's funny, actually. Lim has to fend off allegations from a rival domestic party (MCA) which he is giving false goal to a Chinese village with regards to heading this country, all a whilst proof an intensely effective inaugurated deputy for a state he runs.
Indians, or those claiming to represent them, upon a other have been so marginalised which they do not even poise a convincing threat to a powers-that-be.
Yet another secular formula
Apparently a Niat booklet explains which a marginalisation of a Indian village was due to underneath illustration in a government. Apparently dual former budding ministers determine with this claim. Really?
I believe a Indians have been marginalised since they continued to perspective for ine! pt ! corrup! t leaders who bilked them with a dedicated cows of religion as well as enlightenment as well as an boring Indian middle-class who didn't give a damn about their community. All this set a stage of an eventual class dispute as voiced by a 'mandore' sentiments of Hindraf. (This perspective drew much flack when it initial appeared in my'The gangland slaying of a dedicated cows'piece)
And if a dual former budding ministers suspicion which underneath illustration was a cause of a marginalisation of a Indian community, because didn't they do anything to fix it? you meant if it was easy a putting a couple of token Indians in positions of power, which would in spin 'fix' a Indian problem, they because not do it?
The answer is simple. A marginalised as well as fractured Indian village served a interests of a statute elite. The Umno secular formula as well as a complicity of a Indian 'mandores' ensured which a Indian perspective bank would be paid for over by short-term racialist gains.
What this stupid list of final is attempting is another kind of secular formula. And because not? If anything, Chinese as well as Indian support of Pakatan is not unequivocally formed upon any egalitarian foundation yet rsther than which their racialist expectations would be better served by an alliance which is not as corrupt as well as (here's a hilarious part) racist, as Umno.
Nobody in Pakatan (with a couple of exceptions) dares put forward a suspicion which a non-Malay could ever lead this country yet Pakatan supporters make a appropriate sound when it ! comes to ! meritocracy as well as competition blindness when it is politically expedient to do so.
The common fact i! s which a Malay village is a infancy as well as usually they can confirm if as well as when it is savoury for a Malaysian in any case of his or her competition to rise by popular will to a highest bureau in a land. So do not stone a boat. The goal is to be led by a forward-thinking Malay as well as banish a hated BN from Putrajaya.
Yup, as well as once there, you can still play a same secular diversion with ideas of a arrange espoused by Niat yet coming from Pakatan no disbelief it would be some-more palatable. And once this happens you will unfortunately once again, get a supervision you deserve.
Ambiga praises this initiative as proposing solutions rsther than than a list of problems, yet what if a solutions have been as bad as a problems?
How does carrying a Department of Minority Affairs as well as Development assistance minority communities here in Malaysia? Has a Women's Affairs Department helped women in Malaysia? Has a Orang Asli Department helped alleviate a problems faced by a indigenous peoples of this land?
I would disagree which all these 'minority' departments have only added to a bureaucratic calamity which is a Malaysian civil service as well as has turn a tact ground for a despised cronycrats.
I was of course smirking during a suggestion which banning a sale of ethanol in preference stores would assistance 'curb' alcoholism in a Indian community. Didn't ! PAS attem! pt this dance before?
Interesting isn't it, how these eremite sorts (and I'm assuming eremite sorts of every flavour had their contend in this list of demands) regularly resort to enforcing their value complement upon others instead of usurpation a being which when it comes to social ills similar to alcoholism, a aspect of personal responsibility should be fron! t as wel l as centre of any effort to curb a problem.
Provocative ideas
Why not champion a little of a some-more provocative ideas which have been out there for decades? Here have been a few.
Dismantle a sovereign bureaucracy which is there to yield employment for a specific secular group, which in spin nurtures as clarity of desert inside of this territory of a Malaysian polity. Dismantle a NEP (New Economic Policy) as well as hospital a class-based certain movement programme.
Halt state/federal funding for vernacular/religious schools. Re-establish English as a middle of direction in school, with Malay being a mandatory paper. Add Mandarin as well as Tamil to a mandatory list. Do away with a race-based quota complement when it comes to educational opportunities.
Curb a powers of eremite institutions, especially if they attempt through eremite convictions to criticise a relations in between a diverse eremite communities in a country. Concentrate upon farming development as a equates to of raising a standa! rd of liv! ing instead of viewing them as ignorant perspective banks.
These have been only a couple of ideas which have been floating out there for decades as well as not solutions. Solutions come about if people have been peaceful to cruise these ideas as a basement for probable solutions which would lead us out of this secular quagmire you find ourselves in.
Perhaps if you perspective for people who believe which these ideas have been sound as well as which it should during slightest be attempted after decades of following a Pavlovian reply to secular hot-button issues, maybe it would lead to a incident where a 'majority' has no hang-up as to who leads Malaysia! .
National Indian Rights Action Team's (Niat's) rsther than self-indulgent list of demands, you contend self-indulgent since a single of a components of a 3 cabinet ministers post as well as four emissary ministers reserved (for Indians) would not usually embody inaugurated member yet additionally (surprise, surprise) those appointed from NGOs.Question. If a Chinese or Malay NGO candidate/elected deputy has done "more" for a Indian village which an Indian candidate, would a said particular still be considered for a 'Indian-only' post?
I would gamble my last ringgit which if Pakatan Rakyat (if they ever come in to sovereign power) were to announce such a strategy, they would be perceived with open arms by a certain territory of a Malaysian choosing by casting votes public who explain to be interested in a race-blind society yet who in being understand a code Pakatan uses to demonstrate a commitment to a suspicion which their secular expectations would be met in a some-more "honest" demeanour by a non-BN government.
I do not th! ink a de vise is "too idealistic", you think it's downright myopic, cynical as well as detrimental to any arrange of "racial harmony" which oppositional sorts similar to to contend is part of a 'change' bulletin as well as a kind of secular nonsense Umno-BN has been peddling for decades. Can you suppose a fallout if this were a group of Chinese NGOs carrying a list of d! emands for a government?
The editorial warlocks over atUtusan Malaysiaand a Perkasa thugs would be carrying epileptic fits as well as Umno would be leaping for happiness during a astonishing asset of essentially being in a Pakatan in front of of you do zero whilst their counter fire himself in a foot.
Poor DAP, whilst their golden boy Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has to go out of his approach to calm Malay nerves which nobody in his party would ever seek a highest bureau in a land, here you have Indians NGOs being satisfied with second best as well as worse of all a in front of since to them by their Malay masters.It's funny, actually. Lim has to fend off allegations from a rival domestic party (MCA) which he is giving false goal to a Chinese village with regards to heading this country, all a whilst proof an intensely effective inaugurated deputy for a state he runs.
Indians, or those claiming to represent them, upon a other have been so marginalised which they do not even poise a convincing threat to a powers-that-be.
Yet another secular formula
Apparently a Niat booklet explains which a marginalisation of a Indian village was due to underneath illustration in a government. Apparently dual former budding ministers determine with this claim. Really?
I believe a Indians have been marginalised since they continued to perspective for ine! pt ! corrup! t leaders who bilked them with a dedicated cows of religion as well as enlightenment as well as an boring Indian middle-class who didn't give a damn about their community. All this set a stage of an eventual class dispute as voiced by a 'mandore' sentiments of Hindraf. (This perspective drew much flack when it initial appeared in my'The gangland slaying of a dedicated cows'piece)
And if a dual former budding ministers suspicion which underneath illustration was a cause of a marginalisation of a Indian community, because didn't they do anything to fix it? you meant if it was easy a putting a couple of token Indians in positions of power, which would in spin 'fix' a Indian problem, they because not do it?
The answer is simple. A marginalised as well as fractured Indian village served a interests of a statute elite. The Umno secular formula as well as a complicity of a Indian 'mandores' ensured which a Indian perspective bank would be paid for over by short-term racialist gains.What this stupid list of final is attempting is another kind of secular formula. And because not? If anything, Chinese as well as Indian support of Pakatan is not unequivocally formed upon any egalitarian foundation yet rsther than which their racialist expectations would be better served by an alliance which is not as corrupt as well as (here's a hilarious part) racist, as Umno.
Nobody in Pakatan (with a couple of exceptions) dares put forward a suspicion which a non-Malay could ever lead this country yet Pakatan supporters make a appropriate sound when it ! comes to ! meritocracy as well as competition blindness when it is politically expedient to do so.
The common fact i! s which a Malay village is a infancy as well as usually they can confirm if as well as when it is savoury for a Malaysian in any case of his or her competition to rise by popular will to a highest bureau in a land. So do not stone a boat. The goal is to be led by a forward-thinking Malay as well as banish a hated BN from Putrajaya.
Yup, as well as once there, you can still play a same secular diversion with ideas of a arrange espoused by Niat yet coming from Pakatan no disbelief it would be some-more palatable. And once this happens you will unfortunately once again, get a supervision you deserve.
Ambiga praises this initiative as proposing solutions rsther than than a list of problems, yet what if a solutions have been as bad as a problems?
How does carrying a Department of Minority Affairs as well as Development assistance minority communities here in Malaysia? Has a Women's Affairs Department helped women in Malaysia? Has a Orang Asli Department helped alleviate a problems faced by a indigenous peoples of this land?I would disagree which all these 'minority' departments have only added to a bureaucratic calamity which is a Malaysian civil service as well as has turn a tact ground for a despised cronycrats.
I was of course smirking during a suggestion which banning a sale of ethanol in preference stores would assistance 'curb' alcoholism in a Indian community. Didn't ! PAS attem! pt this dance before?
Interesting isn't it, how these eremite sorts (and I'm assuming eremite sorts of every flavour had their contend in this list of demands) regularly resort to enforcing their value complement upon others instead of usurpation a being which when it comes to social ills similar to alcoholism, a aspect of personal responsibility should be fron! t as wel l as centre of any effort to curb a problem.
Provocative ideas
Why not champion a little of a some-more provocative ideas which have been out there for decades? Here have been a few.
Dismantle a sovereign bureaucracy which is there to yield employment for a specific secular group, which in spin nurtures as clarity of desert inside of this territory of a Malaysian polity. Dismantle a NEP (New Economic Policy) as well as hospital a class-based certain movement programme.
Halt state/federal funding for vernacular/religious schools. Re-establish English as a middle of direction in school, with Malay being a mandatory paper. Add Mandarin as well as Tamil to a mandatory list. Do away with a race-based quota complement when it comes to educational opportunities.
Curb a powers of eremite institutions, especially if they attempt through eremite convictions to criticise a relations in between a diverse eremite communities in a country. Concentrate upon farming development as a equates to of raising a standa! rd of liv! ing instead of viewing them as ignorant perspective banks.These have been only a couple of ideas which have been floating out there for decades as well as not solutions. Solutions come about if people have been peaceful to cruise these ideas as a basement for probable solutions which would lead us out of this secular quagmire you find ourselves in.
Perhaps if you perspective for people who believe which these ideas have been sound as well as which it should during slightest be attempted after decades of following a Pavlovian reply to secular hot-button issues, maybe it would lead to a incident where a 'majority' has no hang-up as to who leads Malaysia! .
Maybe it would lead to a domestic climate where NGOs do not have to propose race-based solutions to problems caused by raced-based preoccupations in a initial place.
If anything Niat cabinet member Arun Dorasamy (right), this is "too idealistic" as well as not your demands, which is merely playing a same competition diversion regularly as well as anticipating for a opposite outcome. Understand now, which both a ideas would no disbelief lift flack from a certain territory of a Malay village nurtured in to desiring which their really presence depends upon a diversion being fraudulent in their favour.
But a difference is which Niat's final is in effect threshing away in secular swamp worsening a incident whilst a ideas I'm highlighting have been an attempt to grab a vine to lift us out of this mess.
The tragedy is this choosing is for a average Pakatan supporter, it is a preference in between a lesser of dual evils (as a little too comfortably claim). Perhaps this is because Niat's suggestions would during a finish of a day be implemented if Pakatan ever comes in to energy (even yet it is mocked now) as well as a ideas you talked about would be consigned to a balderdash bin.
Change is usually suggestive if it involves scapegoat as well as nobody wants to stone a boat when a port of Putrajaya is inside of reach.
If anything Niat cabinet member Arun Dorasamy (right), this is "too idealistic" as well as not your demands, which is merely playing a same competition diversion regularly as well as anticipating for a opposite outcome. Understand now, which both a ideas would no disbelief lift flack from a certain territory of a Malay village nurtured in to desiring which their really presence depends upon a diversion being fraudulent in their favour.But a difference is which Niat's final is in effect threshing away in secular swamp worsening a incident whilst a ideas I'm highlighting have been an attempt to grab a vine to lift us out of this mess.
The tragedy is this choosing is for a average Pakatan supporter, it is a preference in between a lesser of dual evils (as a little too comfortably claim). Perhaps this is because Niat's suggestions would during a finish of a day be implemented if Pakatan ever comes in to energy (even yet it is mocked now) as well as a ideas you talked about would be consigned to a balderdash bin.
Change is usually suggestive if it involves scapegoat as well as nobody wants to stone a boat when a port of Putrajaya is inside of reach.
S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.
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