According to a news report, Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming's mother received some threatening notes in front of her house recently.
Unless you disagree, there is no verbal/emotional/mental offense that would give anyone the right to threaten another fellow human being.
Every of us should stay on our level in our response.
Those who like to threaten, more so anonymously, are bullies and cowards.
They typically pick on people who won’t or can’t defend themselves.
They took the “short cut” option showing they lack courage.
They will never tangle with someone whom they know not only can defend themselves but act against them too.
The ordinary rakyat certainly seen the word – described in the note - used as a conversation stopper in any and all discussions and used as a protective linguistic shield wielded by those who view honest criticism as inflammatory and religion as something untouchable or by various leftist intelligentsia in defense of a community who they implicitly believe are unable to defend themselves.
The language of hate has now morphed into the action of hate.
Dear PM10, you have a responsibility to protect other ordinary Malaysians and to combat this bigotry from being perverted and adopted by the ignorant and employed to more malicious ends.
Criticizing the former does not by default imply a criticism of the latter.
Likewise, critical, respectful, and academic critiques shouldn’t be censored just because others pervert that criticism for a more insidious purpose.
How do we maintain the right to criticize ideas while avoiding the negative affects of doing so?
First you got to separate ideas from people.
Ideas are not people.
This must be done by people across the political spectrum.
As propagated by you all these years while fighting for greater democratic ideals in this country when you were the opposition leader, now that you are the Prime Minister, you need to show leadership and speak out.
You need to start by forcefully condemning and excoriate bigotry in all of its forms.
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