Ronnie Liu and the burden of race - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Ronnie Liew

Malaysiakini : “Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”  - Helder Camara, Spiral Of Violence

COMMENT | The burden of race in the ketuanan system, as I wrote in my piece about Tommy Thomas, is that ”it makes you either an accomplice or an outsider”.

Which brings me to Ronnie Liu (above). A supporter of Liu called me to explain how surprised she was with the numbers he got. Liu, too, was surprised apparently.

To be honest, I was not surprised. When Liu was vilified by certain quarters in the DAP for his “dilute its Chineseness” remark, hackles were raised and hypocrites were having a field day.

Liu has not only chosen to be an outsider in the ketuanan system but he is also an outlier in the Bangsa Malaysia narrative created by the DAP in a misguided strategy against the ketuanan system.

The fact is, that you would only find Liu's remarks offensive if you had drunk the Bangsa Malaysia kool-aid, which only seems to apply to DAP supporters and nobody else.

I have no idea what Liu means by "Chineseness", which is fine because I have no idea what his detractors mean by "Bangsa Malaysia" or even "multiracial". I do know that neither is mutually exclusive when it comes to Malaysia.

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