Picture of student with placard:
WHY VC must resign:
1. Being a Political Puppet
2. Infringing Academic Freedom
3. Promoting racism & hatred
4. Failing to protect student's constituttional rights
5. Failing to solve UM's financial crisis
1. Being a Political Puppet
DAP is now in power. DAP is a chinese dominated party despite claiming to be multi-racial.
They are claiming to be fighting for Malaysians, but promote Mandarin schools and discourage Muslim symbols in their school, such as the objection to artistic Jawi scripts, mistaken for being an Islamic symbol. The implication here is that despite amounting to only 30% of the population and recent migrants to Malaysia, they want Malaysia to adopt Mandarin.
2. Infringing Academic Freedom
This student objected to the VC for attending the Malay Dignity Congress, organised by academics.
It is the student who is against Academic Freedom.
The VC's speech:
"9. In the light of that, based on a question and the question was raised, Malay Studies Center of Excellence, University of Malaya, together with Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris and Universiti Teknologi Mara, joined forces to investigate the unrest and anger the Malays / Bumiputra."
Academic Freedom does not mean that you should break the law. Telling lies e.g.
Maybe his supportes, the UM lecturers and GERAK can explain further what he meant by restricting Academic Freedom here.
3. Promoting racism & hatred
" 5. Worse yet, after 62 years of enjoying independence, the economy of the Malays still like inferior. Corporate Equity Malay / Bumiputra than 23.4%. Non-Bumiputeras held 34.8% and foreign equity 37.2%. This shows that the goals of the New Economic Policy have not yet been achieved.
6. That's not all. Household income gap also widened, with total revenues Malay Bumiputra 3.5 times lower than the average of the Malaysian Chinese community in 2016.
7. The world of education is increasingly challenging. National education is complemented by race-based education. Malay is no longer so much so that the National Education Philosophy milestone challenged. In fact, lately, the special rights of the Malays, Islam, the monarchy, began to question one by one.
8. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. Shouldn't that political power be ours. Isn't the result of this country supposed to prosper us? Doesn't that education unite us as Malaysians? Have the rights of the Malays enshrined in the Federal Constitution should have been completed."
What is so racist about that speech?
There are a lot of Malay words indeed, but they are based on facts.
This is what I worry the most. This chinese student and his supporters, UM lecturers and GERAK, consider that the constitution is racist for mentioning Melayu. The VC is considered as racist for mentioning Melayu, or Malay.
This is something new. Saying the word chinese to chinese is also taboo, because it will incite racial violence. I was told about it by my Malay friends the moment I set foot on Malaya(Tanah Melayu), in 1976.
You may think it is a joke and had disappeared, but the Edi Rejang case showed that it was still alife. A Malay guy was questioned by the police, lost his children places in a chinese school and lost his job, just because he called a chinese lady a chinese, because he was angry that the underaged lady was servicing beer at Giant.
So many posters defended her as her right to serve beer at the non-halal section of a supermarket, Giant.To these chinese, Muslims are not allowed to pass through non-halal section. If they do, then, they have no right to complain about anything illegal happening at that place.
Actually there is no such law. Even in pubs, where alcohol can be served legally, Muslims are not forbidden to enter. Just do not drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol is forbiddent o Muslims, at the pub, at public places or at home. Non-Muslims are also forbidden to drink alcohol at public places, especially supermarket.
4. Failing to protect student's constituttional rights
What rights?
The VC was also mentioning about the constituitional rights of Malay. This student must have complained that the constituition was against the rights of chinese students.
This is preposterous but I worry the most his supporters, the UM lecturers and GERAK.
"Have the rights of the Malays enshrined in the Federal Constitution should have been completed."
Wrong translation. Should have been "completely accomplished".
The rights are mentioned as:
"In fact, lately, the special rights of the Malays, Islam, the monarchy, began to question one by one."
Began to be questioned.
If you read his student's sentence, it is not just questioning, but challenging the constitution by saying that his rights is denied with the implementation of the constitutional provision for Malay.
"National education is complemented by race-based education."
The VC did not question, just noted that education is now race-based, mentioning the chinese and tamil secondary schools.
This student must have thought that the VC has not protected his constitutional rights when the VC complained about the neglect about the provision for the Malay rights in the constitution.
This neglect is based on facts:
"5. Worse yet, after 62 years of enjoying independence, the economy of the Malays still like inferior. Corporate Equity Malay / Bumiputra than 23.4%. Non-Bumiputeras held 34.8% and foreign equity 37.2%. This shows that the goals of the New Economic Policy have not yet been achieved."
The excuse by chinese is that the Malays are lazy and corrupt, which is truely racist, instead of just racial.
This is despite the presense of Malay engineers, scientiest, professors, lawyers and billionaires. It is just that they are not enough. They do not reflect the percentage of the Malays by population, that is 60%.
A lot of Malays were duped into thinking that the NEP had been a complete failure.
Even this VC mentioned it.
"6. That's not all. Household income gap also widened, with total revenues Malay Bumiputra 3.5 times lower than the average of the Malaysian Chinese community in 2016."
In my opinion, without the NEP, the gap would have been wider. It is true that there are a lot of waste, but sufficient amount managed to filter through.
One reason for failure is the racist nature of the chinese. This protest is a clear example of it. And he is not alone. He is supported by a lot of UM lecturers and GERAK.
Despite evidences of the chinese true racism, instead of the false racism that the chinese complained about, the Malaysian government approach is the gentle approach. Even denial.
There is not even any anti-discrimination law or even official anti-discrimination investigation. Just dump money into more NEP.
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