“We should not bow to fate, and have the right to equality. We should not kneel and beg. We should be brave enough to stand and ask for it.”

- Lim Guan Eng (2012)

COMMENT | Since the so-called Sabah slap, DAP operatives have been going on a performative spree. DAP MPs have been busy demonstrating that they are taking the government to task, especially when it comes to issues affecting non-bumiputera.

Not only is it performative, but it is also rather comical.

I think the apogee of the DAP kowtowing to Madani was the complete silence by the DAP youth and sports minister when the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM)/International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) scandal was playing out, and then the fait accompli “clutch my pearls” statements from the minister when it was obvious that the dust was not settling.

At this point, there is a litany of dismal peaks that rational Malaysians can point to where the DAP has not...