Dear writer,
I ******d ‘racial myopia’ and landed smack dab in the middle of some medical papers relating to short sightedness, and one lone article by a guy who wants to see the world in a single shade of gray…
I have suffered from myopia since I was knee high to a snake, and I take offence with anyone that equates my debilitating condition, which forces me to get really up close before I can decide whether to fix breakfast for whichever girl, whose bed i had drunkenly shared, or sneak out quietly, with narrow mindedness or intolerance.
I read your piece last night, after I had gotten royally pissed off from the report on the Penans a few articles down, so I waited for two reasons. First, to regain the slight sense of humour that I try to keep close while typing, and second to show that your much vaunted fellow Citizens, will give more of a damn about whether anyone has run down their favourite politico, (18 comments), rather than get bothered enough about a bunch of indigenous people who are the sex toys to loggers (9 comments). You should be proud that we have our priorities totally straight. What with not seeing colour, and emphatising with our fellow Citizens and what not, eh?
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” g o o g l e d ” w a s c e n s o r e d .
I rebut your Malaysians Mudah Lupa video with, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhqlN9GXe-A, or if that is censored as well, the video of Karpal, Rayer and ilk at Buah Pala in y o u t u b e this past January, lying through their teeth and offering hope to people whose land they had already signed off with a stroke of a CM’s pen. ( At least BN makes a one off payment for the vote every five years and forgets about you, but to continue raising hope and making heroic promises after the people have voted for you is just sick…what kind of a person will do that…oh right, smell the coffee right? politicians are scum, eh what?)
My second rebuttal will be Lim Kit Siang, standing in Brickies NUBE office, and calling me and the fellow guests at a DAP talk about Hindraf and something, in December of 2007, about how wrong it is for the police to shoot tear gas at us, ‘the salt of the earth’, when we are trying to demonstrate our right to peaceful assembly while carrying the great gandhi’s pix as a sunshield.. The same Lim who, when asked about Hindraf this year, did not answer the reporters question, but called Hindraf vituperative ( synonyms : calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying ) and proceeded to read out from a Chinese vernacular and crack jokes… ohh please search y o u t u b e yourselves for this one.
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feeling a bit lazy, haven’t smelled the coffee yet, so this will be the last for a while.
The 18 point Hindraf manifesto was coined in 2007, while the bulk of the commentors above me were sitting on their fingers while reading MT, and racism was as big a problem as it is now, the only difference being that March 8 has brought out a lot of the cowards from the woodwork, and that, of course dilutes the memory into thinking that they had always been around and were pivotal in making their voice and opinions heard so that others will change the way they vote. Of course the Bersih and Hindraf rallies had absolutely nothing to do with waking the gutless majority up to how important change was… I mean can you believe that two of the biggest rallies ever seen in this country can influence or give hope to anyone?
On the same note, if someone like me was to come out with a 27 point manifesto on what needs to happen so that the Penans will be ok, that will be totally fine right? But if a Penan writes that, then he must be a bleeding racist, correct?
You are right, of course the rest of my fellow Citizens are going to help the poor and marginalised and abused, right after the Teoh Beng Hock inquest and the cow head trials right? And they will fight real hard won’t they?
The poor are only equals to the rest of their fellow citizens in two situations in this country. First, when they travel overseas under a Malaysian passport, and are viewed as Malaysians and not the Bumi/Bintang/Bulan crap…but then again what are they doing travelling overseas when they are supposed to be poor? are they even supposed to afford a passport?
Second, when they cast their VOTE,it still counts as one. And if you and the rest of the upper class drivers of public opinion say that the poor have NO RIGHT to not participate in a system that does nothing for them, regardless of whether that system is labelled BN or PR or IND, I ask you this, how dare you?!?
