Shall Playing Racial Card be justified?

en said... Isaaj, ...
harakah and demonstration for example was never banned, just demonstration were controlled and banned ONLY if it causes danger. yes, Mahathir has done terrible mistake at the very end of a wonderful, wonderful 22 years as a PM, by naming Pak Lah as his successor, but he is doing his part now to repent that mistake. ANd what have you actually did (done?) for Malaysia?

I will never support Mahathir or anyone for that matter fully. They human and they make mistake. But to have so much hatred to one man who has taken singlehandedly so forward is very disturbing. No one loves Malaysia and Malays as much as Mahathir. even the so-called racist card is totally fine since it is just a call for Malays to rise and CHALLENGE others, not eliminate them. Again, what all of you guys that hate Mahathir so has did (done?) for Malaysia?
surikell
June 16, 2008 6:43 PM


To Surikell (en),

Many people like to praise Dr Mahathir because of his success in building the national pride with national car project (Proton) and the building of once-upon-a-time the world tallest Petronas Twin Towers. While history will take its own course to give a fair and just weight upon the contributions which Dr Mahathir had done to the Malaysian Nation, no one shall be deemed rational to idolize Dr. Mahathir or even deify Dr. Mahathir while he is nothing more than a human of blood and breathe. All humen err.

Trying to justify the use of racist card by the ambiguous rationale of country love or national love is terribly absurd and dangerous to the whole nation. Even the Nazis of Germany and Fascists of Italy would know how to play the racist card with the disguise of country love. The biggest mistake we could have done from now at the expense of the future of our next generation is to keep quiet at this critical moment and allow pacifism to provide nourishment to further growth of Racism or Fascism in Malaysia. Therefore it is terribly wrong for us to tolerate or encourage using the racial cards in order to gain or regain the political power by any politician.

Surikell is asking that what all the bloggers who oppose Dr. Mahathir have done for Malaysia. I wish to tell Surikell that these opposition bloggers have more or less helped to shape up a Malaysia of better racial and religious tolerance among all the people of multi-ethnics society. Different people of different ethnic backgrounds and different religious backgrounds would never find the opportunities to understand the position which their counter-part rigidly upholds if all of them do not communicate and exchange their ideas in two-ways communication method. At least Dr Mahathir's website provides a forum for our Malaysian people to share what we think in our mind about the present state of our political structure or to address our grievances against the counter-part. Somehow or rather, this exchange of ideas would help us to promote a better understanding among all the different ethnics in Malaysia.

I personally think that it is a bit too rude to ask the other Malaysian what he/she has done for Malaysia. In my opinion, even a farmer who lives in subsistence level in Malaysia will have much better contributions for his nation than an iron fist political leader, for the farmer will have never caused the damages to the other citizen by insisting that he is more right than his political opponent and therefore his political opponent shall be sent to ISA detention camp.

You may not be a former ISA detainee, but many other Malaysian citizens are.