Non-racists in Malaysia are just sore losers
I don’t think these other non-Malays writers realise how delusional and confused they must be sounding, for attempting to give advice to the Malays about how the Malays can better themselves, when the Malays likely just see the non-Malays as racist sore losers.
Nehru Sathiamoorthy
After the KK Mart fiasco, a lot of articles decrying racism has appeared on the media space. A lot of it are written by non -Malay writers, and although coming from different angles, shapes and form, all of them basically say the same thing; which is that “it is such a shame that Malaysia is a racist country, the reason that Malaysia is racist is because of the Malays, Malays need to change and become a better people so that we can become a better country.”
When I read their articles, I have this sinking feeling that this country is doomed.
I have this sinking feeling because though these non-Malay writers don’t say it directly, the underlying idea behind the writing of these non-Malay writers is that the non-Malays are losing to the Malays because we are more decent and virtuous than the Malays, when it really should be as clear as daylight that the non-Malays are just losing to them because we are losing. Period.
Eric Hoffer once made an observation.
“It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.”
When I read the articles by all these non-Malay writers and their supporters’ club, purportedly to champion non-racism and denounce racism, I feel that Eric Hoffer’s observation perfectly encapsulated who they really are, which is that that they are just a bunch of sore losers who are delusional, telling themselves that they are showing the way to others when all they are doing is running away from themselves.
If this were not the case, it really should be patently self evidently to these non-Malay writers, that the non-Malays are neither not racist nor more decent or virtuous than the Malays.
There are millions and millions of foreign workers in Malaysia that the non-Malays treat not only like a second class people, but a third class or fourth class people, just because they are foreign workers.
The non-Malays have no qualms in treating the foreign workers as being innately lesser and lower class to us, and we have come up with all sorts of reasoning and justifications to explain why treating foreign workers like a third or fourth class citizen is not a form of maltreatment or abuse, but a form of justice and fairness in some convoluted way, but when the Malays use the same sort of justification and reasoning against us, we inexplicably become indignant .
Not only do we become indignant, but we inexplicably start to behave like we are not the sort of people who will not exploit people like the foreign workers for our benefit without batting an eyelid, and act like we are some sort of role models for virtue, and proceed to admonish and shame the Malays for their shortcomings and vices, as if they are the losers and we are the winners.
If the non-Malays are the role models and winners, then the foreign workers must be the biggest winner in the country!
I don’t think these other non-Malays writers realise how delusional and confused they must be sounding, for attempting to give advice to the Malays about how the Malays can better themselves, when the Malays likely just see the non-Malays as racist sore losers.
As Eric Hoffer has pointed out, it is truly the talent of the weak to act as if they are chosen, the more that they are shunned.
Self awareness is the quality of realising who we are in reality. If we don’t have self awareness, we will just believe our delusions and assume that we are a giant in our head, when in reality, we are actually very little people.
Imagine the sort of problem little people will inflict upon themselves and everybody else, when it acts out in delusion of being a giant.
Not realising that they are actually a very little people, they will go around pinpointing the faults of other people, as if it is others that are the ones that are little, and advice others to change their ways and adopt them as their role model, as if following their example is how others can expect to be a giant someday.
Imagine getting advice from a loser who delusionally believes that they are winners.
Things can indeed get very vexing and irritating, when one has to constantly deal with a bunch of delusional losers, who don’t even understand such simple and self evident truths, like how a loser cannot give advice or shame the winner. If you do it, you will just be seen as a sore loser, not a winner.
When we are treating the foreign workers like third and fourth class human beings, to blame the Malays for treating us like second class citizens, is just the attitude of a sore loser.
If we really want to be better than the Malays, then we should begin by treating the foreign workers as how we would treat ourselves.
We should stop thinking “although I am treating the foreign workers worse than how I would treat myself, they should be satisfied with the way I am treating them, because even my low treatment of them is better than the treatment you can get elsewhere.”
If we can’t stop treating the foreign workers along this line of thinking, then at least we should stop blaming the Malays for treating us the same way that we are treating the foreign workers.
Instead of shaming and advising them, we should admire and learn from them instead.
Imagine that we are a criminal and so are the Malays. When the Malays twist our arms before exploiting us, instead of assuming that they are just oppressing and abusing us because we are such a good people, and start shaming and advising the Malays for the errors of their ways as if we are so sure that they see us as saints, we should just resign ourselves that the Malays are just doing what they are doing because they are better criminals than us.
Based on our treatment of the foreign workers, it should be obvious to us that if we could do to the Malays what the Malays could do to us, we would be doing exactly what they are doing.
Realising that, instead of shaming and advising them, we should just admire them and learn from them, so that we can improve ourselves and become a better criminal.
