DOMESTIC politics has always been dominated by targeted hatred towards arch-nemesis parties.
For instance, UMNO has long portrayed DAP as the bogeyman, hell bent on eradicating Muslim rights and sidelining Islam as the nation’s official religion.
DAP is also complicit in this game of ‘scare the voters’ by painting PAS (and opposition bloc PN) as a demonic neo-conservative party that will suck away the rights of non-Muslims in the country.
Such manufactured “hatred” can be seen all over social media with rival keyboard warriors engaging in tit-for-tat spats and all manner of derogatory name-calling.
An example of that can be seen in a proclamation on the ANTI Semua Salah UMNO – ASSU Facebook page which declared that “Malays don’t hate the Chinese but the Malays hate DAP because of its constitution.”
The page dedicated to fighting anti-UMNO sentiment is an obvious place for such DAP bashing with the post having garnered 1.1K likes, 1.5K comments and 51 shares at time of writing.
However, it was the DAP supporters (and cybertroopers) who seemed to be out in full force, mocking the poster for making such a remark.
More than one commenter gleefully pointed out that the real reason for this “hatred” towards the DAP is because their presence in the unity government prevents UMNO warlords from conducting business as usual, such as plundering the nation’s coffers.
The fact that this thread had been hijacked by Rocketeers were obvious from the many pro-DAP comments flooding the page.
One commenter praised DAP for pursuing a manifesto that treated all citizens equally and emphasised social harmony.
Another commenter who claimed to be a five decade-long member of DAP proclaimed that all he saw was that DAP leaders were much better than the party that engages in stealing and spreading of malicious lies.
This Rocketeer poured fuel onto the fire by being blatantly racist, claiming that the Malays loved bribery and robbery, and were involved in corruption and treachery.
Another fed-up observer argued that the Chinese didn’t hate the Malays but were against the politicians who would lie, steal, misappropriate, abuse power, use religion and destroy the rakyat’s harmony just to further their narrow political agenda.
“What would these parties do to entice the Malay to vote if DAP didn’t exist?” This was the pertinent question asked by a few commenters who obviously had enough of the oft-repeated “semua salah DAP” (everything is the DAP’s fault) excuse.
It was quite deep into the thread before one commenter asked the very pertinent question – “please give an example of the DAP’s constitution that is hated the Malays?”
One jokingly suggested that it had to with porcine consumption though another commenter suspects that it was down to DAP championing the “Malaysian Malaysia” concept.
One commenter wryly noted that such anti-DAP and anti-Chinese posts start to flood social media when polls (state and national) are around the corner.
Social media is very much the new frontier for the hearts, minds and votes of the Malaysian electorate. The fact that this anti-DAP site was flooded with comments from Rocketeers is a sure sign that election fever is heating up and the online battles have begun in earnest.
More vitriol (from both sides) is sure to follow. – June 14, 2026
