The article with the above headline which appeared in the sun
The next to last paragraph in the article was especially telling:
As PR leader, a politician from Penang, and a man who says he will abolish the New Economic Policy and by extension an economic policy based on racial requirements rather than need, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has yet to take a public stand on this issue. His silence is disappointing. It also suggests political analysts who laud PR as breaking the mould of racial politics are deluding themselves. What was heralded as a "new dawn" in Malaysian politics may well turn out to be a "false dawn".
Politicians who are just plain arrogant abound in this day and age, there is no other word for this resurgence of uncouth behaviour. The thinking that ‘we’, a particular community, are the only group entitled to call this fair land our home is the height of folly. Even in the heat of election campaigning, there is no excuse for such utterances. There still persist that idea, I’m not sure who planted it, that the rest be damned, we can make it on our own.
Reality check is in order here. We are in this together, sink or swim as one. That should be the rallying call. There are bigger challenges out there in the big bad world and as a tiny nation, we must, put aside all differences and come together as one. That is the only choice for us.
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