You can never Win with a Bigot – My Response to “OutSyed the Box: Is The DAP A Chauvinist Party?”
By Malaysian Heart
Bigotry is spreading fast in our blogosphere, on both sides of the political divide; I believe that Syed Akbar Ali's (SAA) blog entry of 31 July 2009 is but one example of it. The purpose of the post in question seems to be to imply that the DAP is chauvinist, anti-Malay and anti-Islam.
Allow me to to share a "joke" with you. Two waiters were talking about the diners they were serving that evening:
Waiter A: There's a large party at my table. I'll get a good tip tonight for sure.
Waiter B: Don't hold your breath, buddy. They're all X (insert name of group here), everyone knows that X are cheapskates.
Later that night…
Waiter A: Hey, I got a really nice tip from them! They weren't cheapskates at all!
Waiter B: Of course you got a "big tip", sucker. Everyone knows those X control all our money away!
To waiter B, the X are damned if they do and damned if they don't. He has made up his mind and no truth can change it. He is a caricature of a bigot, i.e. one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. Bigots never let facts, reason and logic get in the way of what they want to believe; after all, why should they do that when it's so much easier to find crooked thinking and dishonest arguments enough to support their bigotry?
Let's look at some of the things SAA wrote, beginning with this about Lim Guan Eng (LGE): "Lim Guan Eng made a public display of standing up for a young Malay girl because the fellow involved was Rahim Tamby Chik, Guan Eng’s nemesis in Melaka at that time. Would Lim Guan Eng have made the same stand if it was not Rahim Tamby Chik? What if it was Chua Soi Lek?" So, according to SAA, if someone like LGE speaks up for a Malay girl, he/she is only motivated by political and/or racial motivations, never by principle or more nobler aims.
Yet, five paragraphs later, he is taking Theresa Kok to task for (supposedly) doing the exact opposite: NOT speaking up for a Malay girl! He writes: "Then it came to pass that the girl was not Chinese but actually a Malay girl, also wearing a tudung, who was a suspected drug addict. Not surprisingly that also marked the end of Theresa Kok's involvement in the matter. She dropped the case like a hot potato."
Would it be fair to say that whatever a DAP politician (or indeed anyone whom SAA disagrees with) says or does, SAA would construe it to imply that they are opportunist, racist and/or worse? How convenient!
Read more at: You can never Win with a Bigot – My Response to "OutSyed the Box: Is The DAP A Chauvinist Party?"
