… of racial politics …

** Originally posted on 6th August 2007 **
** Edited 20th December 2007 **

It was reported in today’s edition of The Star that certain parties do not dirty their hands in racial politics and that they are inn fact all out for equality.

The article reads as such:

Umno is not racist, says Khairy

KLANG: Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaludin has refuted allegations by the Opposition that the movement practises racism.

“I don’t understand how the accusation come about – calling us racist. In fact, Umno always emphasises on the power-sharing concept and history has proven it.

“Ijok is a good example, where an Indian candidate was nominated despite a Malay majority in the constituency. This had been repeated in many other constituencies.

“How can we be racist, when we are defending equality?” he asked after opening the Kapar Umno division youth delegates meeting here yesterday.

Khairy also said that Selangor did not need a comprehensive development blueprint from the Federal Government as it was already a well-developed state.

He said such development plans should be channelled to the less developed states such Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang.

** The Article Ends Here **

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What more is there to say?

“I don’t understand how the accusation come about – calling us racist. In fact, Umno always emphasises on the power-sharing concept and history has proven it.

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I don’t believe we’re talking about history anymore, we’re talking about today. A perfect historical record can be broken at any point. The Germans were once the pinnacle of civilization, especially within the development of music, science and engineering. All it took was one charismatic failed painter by the name of Adolf and now they’re remembered primarily for something else.

“How can we be racist, when we are defending equality?” he asked after opening the Kapar Umno division youth delegates meeting here yesterday.

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Ooooh! Where do we start?!

New Straits Times
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Delegates contest Khairy’s remarks

Umno Youth deputy head Khairy Jamaluddin’s recent remarks were a hot topic during the MCA Youth and Wanita assemblies yesterday.

A number of delegates took Khairy to task for saying that non-Malay political parties would take advantage of Umno if the party was split.

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Still defending equality? I guess equal means differently to different people. Some people even relate ‘equal’ to artificial sweeteners. Artificial political sweetener, perhaps?

Keris Waving Days. “Give me a ‘kungfu’ sword and I will have no problems waving it too,” he says, according to NST on August 27, 2006. A no prize to anyone who guesses who’s the person hidden by the Keris.

 

And from Malaysia Today during the infamous Keris waving days:

Mr Mohd Zan Abu from Johor said that the movement would continue to defend Malay dominance.

‘We will not budge an inch to defend our rights, we will defend it to the last drop of our blood,’ he said.

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Malay dominance? Defending ‘certain’ rights (and we know what ri*cough*privileges*cough*ghts are being discussed here)? Didn’t someone just say something about having a history of defending equality?

Mr Razali Idris from Terengganu said that if the Malays are provoked, the May 13 sort of racial riots could erupt again. Close to 200 people were killed in the Chinese-Malay riots that broke out on May 13 in 1969. ‘Do not challenge the Malays – it will ignite our spirit to run amok,’ he said.

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Defensive, more like.

I think someone has a clear problem with the definition of ‘equality’. I mean, come on, it’s only four syllables. Definitely not worthy of a top notch graduate from a top notch University. Perhaps this link will help: Distribution and equality using sweets. Simple enough for equal minded people to understand.