Who are the ones with Malaysian values?

Brief extracts from column of Commander (rtd) S Thayaparan (Malaysiakini) on comics saga:

One could make the argument that Superman Hew was doing the old maverick (Mahathir) a favour, hence the boy minister should show some gratitude.

While Hew may be a “useful idiot” for the mandarins in the PRC, his comic is good propaganda when it comes to dealing with the PRC because, obviously as the old maverick says, Malaysia has to be careful about what it says to big, powerful China.

This kind of comic goes a long way in ameliorating the usual far right rhetoric that the state has to engage in when it comes to anything Chinese

Bersatu PRIBUMI Youth exco Mohd Ashraf Mustaqim Badrul Munir, launching a broadside against the DAP, said: “Do they hold on to Malaysians values with conviction and sincerity or are they aligned with the Communist Party of China?", which is nonsensical because I have no idea what Malaysian values he is talking about.

Here we have politicians like the boy minister and this youth exco member talking about racism and “Malaysian values” when they belong to a political party that only accepts Malays. A political party that was created to court the Malay votes because it was believed that the vast majority of the community needed to be reassured that only a Malay only political party could protect the rights and needs of the Malay community.

These are the arbiters of what is and isn’t racist? While various polls claim that a majority of Chinese and Indians consider themselves “Malaysian” first, most polls, especially recent ones, point to a worrying trend of a majority of Malays thinking of themselves as “Muslims” first. So it is deceitful talking about Malaysian values and as problematic as talking about Bangsa Malaysia, for instance.

The old maverick says: “The young people must understand the problems, strategies and policies of our own country first, so when they come up (to face) with other people's strategies, they know their place.”, which I suppose means the kind of racial and religious propaganda which sustains Bersatu PRIBUMI, Umno and PAS. Fair enough, at least it's home-grown.

if 'dignity' means racism, they certainly have it, otherwise kerbau lah 

Malay politicians and religious personalities do not ever have to justify the dodgy political or religious dogma they import from the Middle East or their support of causes that are of importance to their base.

However, because nobody wants to spook the Malays, non-Malay politicians have to distance themselves from anything that could be used against them politically, even by their allies, but which is important to their respective bases.

Very succinct observation but more importantly, Commander Thayaparan has raised it pointedly, namely, that:

(1) Malay politicians and religious personalities do not ever have to justify the dodgy political or religious dogma they import from the Middle East or their support of causes that are of importance to their base, 

(2) But if Chinese or Indian politicians (or even religious personalities) import any overseas dogma or culture, they have to justify the values of their existing national affiliation, as is happening now to Chinese (affiliation PRC?) and Indians (affiliation LTTE?).

As the Commander also pointed out, it's ironical and disgustingly arrogant for members of Parti PRIBUMI (a racist party with members exclusively of one race only, purportedly to protect the interests of one race only), to wit, Minister Syed Saddiq and PRIBUMI Youth exco Mohd Ashraf Mustaqim Badrul Munir, to question non-Malays' values when their so-called values are questionable. 

Indeed, it's obscenely deceitful for them as racists in a racist party to talk about Malaysian values.

As for because nobody wants to spook the Malays, non-Malay politicians have to distance themselves from anything that could be used against them politically, even by their allies, but which is important to their respective bases do you hear Lim KS or son Lim GE commenting on the Malay Dignity Congress, UM VC racist rant, or Maszlee's reason for Malay students dominating the matriculation process?

They have become guli-less for the sake of holding on to their lil' powers.

chye-chye don't look up, just don't look up, act dunno