“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

- HL Mencken

COMMENT | “Truly, today I feel ashamed to be called a 'Malaysian’,” said academic Tajuddin Rasdi.

The most interesting thing in Tajuddin’s public statements about this flag fiasco, as reported in the press, is this - “Tajuddin said he even disagreed with the daily’s decision to suspend the editors for inadvertently publishing an image of the Jalur Gemilang without the crescent moon symbol”.

The owners of Sin Chew essentially threw their employees under the bus and reinforced certain narratives of the state by doing so, damaging not only their credibility but also the fragile limits of a free press in this country. Honestly, I find this kind of behaviour shameful. Which brings me to the real issue when someone says he or she is ashamed to be a citizen of a country...