UNABLE to stomach former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s unrelenting negative views of the Malays, netizens took social media to chastise the nonagenarian.
Yesterday, Mahathir stood firm on his decades old view that the Malays were holding on to certain “negative values”, which deters them from becoming successful.
He added that the Malays should acknowledge that they have wrong values and urged them to change for the betterment of the country.
“The value system of the Japanese ensures that they will succeed. The value system of some other primitive races will ensure that they will fail. So, this is the problem that we face. It’s not just race, it is the value system – and this can be changed.
“We have to accept that we have wrong values and therefore we must change. For example, when I say the Malay’s are lazy, and everybody gets angry with me,” The Malay Mail reported him as saying during the launch of his new book titled Capturing Hope: The Struggle Continues for a New Malaysia.
Touching on the matter, user Ahmad Zaim Hilmi said that it was easy for Mahathir to generalise the Malays, which caused negative views on the community.
Stuck in the past
Netizen Syaza posed a blunt retort on the former premier, adding the latter seems to be stuck back in the 1970s and 1980s.
(Tun M, you’re stuck in the 1970s and 1980s mindset. The reality now is majority of the Malays are doing two to three jobs a day to survive by becoming FoodPanda and Grab drivers.
(Some are selling things on Shoppe to make a living. Most of the community there are Malays. So, the “lazy Malays’ narrative has lost its relevance in this day and age). – Dec 13, 2021
