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COMMENT | UiTM KKK drag show reflects 'don't spook Malays' politics
“We can see that this only became an issue recently. Why was such an issue never raised over the years? So the Indian community suspects that there is a mastermind behind this. We will know who that is when the time comes.”

- MIC deputy president M Saravanan begging the Indian community

COMMENT | Be warned, I am going to make a few false equivalencies in this piece, but when you dress up in KKK drag to “help increase their understanding and perceptiveness towards the topic, and to give an overall picture from global and historical perspectives”, you are begging for it.

Cut off all the fancy talk, I gather from the words of UiTM, this was supposed to be an anti-racism project. Let us unpack this a bit. In 2008, the then-Selangor menteri besar got into trouble because he suggested that UiTM be open to non-bumiputera students. The small quota of 10 percent he suggested was met with much discontent. Why did he make this suggestion?

According to the late Khalid Ibrahim, “The state government proposed this because...


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