Malaysian Half-Breed
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The online dictionary tells us that the term:
[haf-breed, hahf-] Disparaging and Offensive.
noun
a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
adjective
Origin of half-breed
In short, it is a vile racist term which we as civilised people should never use. Originally, that was, in America, it refers to “persons descended from Indian women by white men” and is usually used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting, implying that a ‘half-breed’ is somehow different or inferior.
Kaytee suspects the term ‘half-breed’ refers to the
white’ part of the person’s breed, where the ‘non-white’ part is not worth considering as a ‘breed’ or of animal or non-human characteristics.
A Facebook acquaintance used it to describe RPK. Whilst I realise RPK is much detested by Pakatan people for his socio-political posts (which they once adored very much and had even at one stage proposed him as PM of Malaysia, wakakaka) I was nonetheless shocked that a supposedly “educated” person as that FB acquaintance would even see fit to employ such a vile abusive description of a political ‘enemy’.
That would have been akin to calling Mahathir a half-breed too, which much as I dislike him and fear his political policies, is horrendously wicked and malicious. While referring to Mahathir as Mamak has been a naughty jab or reminder of his Indian-religious origin (rather than his ‘half’ of whatever his genes may be), I would be very much against extremely horrendous racist terms such as half-breed.
As a quiet protest, I informed that FB acquaintance that I, kaytee, am also a half-breed. If he likes to use such a disgusting racist term, he should at least be aware of my ethnic status or composition, wakakaka.
