Everyone is free
to criticize any party. DAP is no exception. DAP will readily acknowledge that
it is a party far from perfect. UMNO cyber troopers can throw all the invectives
but if the criticisms do not extend beyond one- liners, that will only reveal their
shallowness. That which is written trivially, shall not be taken seriously.
The barrage of xenophobic
responses hurled recently at the DAP’s election of CEC is a case in point. The morbidity
of the criticisms can only indicate extreme paranoia at insisting that Malays
must be elected into the CEC. As a Malay, you have a birthright to earn a place
on the CEC? As a Malay DAP member, I don’t subscribe to the view that one must
be elected because one has a certain status. Rights are earned not given.
That is
precisely the idea behind the recent comments by a leader of a Malay business
organization who said that DAP is a threat to Malay business. How is that so? A
system that actually helps the powerless and the voiceless Malay businessmen is
said to be a threat to Malay business? Which kind of Malay business? The kind
that Izzat Emir is accustomed to? The system that allows shortcuts and establish
a reward system that enriches people who don’t have to work? A system that favors
people like Izzat Emir who has cables and political connections? That is precisely
the system spawned by UMNO which have inbuilt mechanisms that favor the rich, powerful
and the connected.
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