As for me, you have been forgiven long time ago. Heck, I was young and crazy too one time ago. We tend to make mistakes when we were young. Who hasn’t?
It is simply a part and parcel of growing up. How does it feel to be some kind of celebrity all of a sudden, Wee Meng Chee? Let me guess, you might have enjoyed it in the first few days (Pardon me saying this.) but later your sense of guilt and anguish took over. Am I right?
Yes, Wee Meng Chee. It is not easy to be Malaysians. It is not at all easy. Whatever we said and do, we always have to consider their consequences before anything else. We have to consider the feelings of everyone. We have to consider the feelings of our Malaysian Malays (Melayu), our Malaysian Chinese, our Malaysian Indians and so forth. It is simply not easy to please everyone. I guess that you have learnt it the hard way but it is a good lesson to be learnt nonetheless.
Whatever it is, Wee Meng Chee. You have earned my utmost respect. Some other coward Malaysians may just remove that video and remain anonymous when they realize that people are talking about it. But you did not! You stood up when the heat was on you. You even explained yourself to all Malaysians and in the end, apologize to everyone.
Give yourself a big pat on the back, Wee Meng Chee. You are young all right but all ready you have shown characters of a grown man! :-)
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Thank you for being open minded about his video. I don't think some parts of this song was right and probably was insensitive to malays or muslim. I have to admit to that. In any case, it was good that he apologized. Happy Merdeka.
However, if you look at UMNO's GA last year and previous years, there were various racists calls made by UMNO leaders which were completely insensitive to us Chinese. So, I think UMNO leaders esp Pak Lah should also apologize.
Hishamudin should also apologize for waving his keris twice. That is insensitive to Chinese feeling, threatening like that. What is the education minister educating the public? His example is bad for the whole of Malaysia? If he ever become PM, God help Malaysia. Same too with son-in=law!!! Two real monyets who behave like monyets and still don't know they are monyets!
You should condemn racism by politicians, the biggest culprits.
A lot of people in power should learn from Wee Meng Chee - accountability
Accountability is something which is very much lacking in Malaysia.
My favourite classic case was when the then Chief Minister of Melaka, Thambi Chik denied any responsibility when the main dam in Melaka (can't remember the name) dried up because he was not directly in charge of the dam! So much for the integrity for our leaders
50 yrs into independence, it is not a short journey. Namewee as a 24 yr old young man has spoken some truth of the country and he has apologised for the sensitive remarks that offended some parties. Lets see how grown up and mature are we Malaysians, especially the mainstream political parties.
They have slandered, threatened, name calling etc. Are they going to be as gentlemen and mature to accept an apology?
Two weeks more we shall celebrate 50th Merdeka. Lets see how Malaysians especially the mainstream political parties would response. Are they older than Namewee? Are they truly love the country and fear God? We shall see.
Happy Merdeka!
YC
This is what I call 'the practise of Freedom-of-Speech' and 'Democracy'. Dont focus on the person who expresses it, rather focus on why it was expressed.
I ask fellow politicians to look at our current political, social and economical structure of Malaysia. Look hard and assess the situation before making any judgement calls.
If there was no truth in the gibberish song, why the strong reaction? The truth hurts; but the truth prevails.
Where do we go from here? Condemn the singer? Send out warnings to people to never utter / sing / write / blog about sensitive issues? I think... for Malaysians to improve - We need to address those sensitive issues. We need to talk about equality, meritocracy, transparency (IN ALL ASPECTS).
Let's look at where we have gone wrong and consciencely act to improve; Move Forward.
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