Lessons in dignity

COMMENT | There are many examples of people acting with dignity in our everyday lives and no-one needs a congress to show how to act with dignity.

Living on hand-outs, demanding a bigger slice of the pie, and depriving others is not acting with dignity. Demanding that vernacular schools be abolished, forcing non-Malays to be second-class citizens is not dignified behaviour. These are acts of arrogance and aggression.

Why waste the taxpayers' money and involve four public universities in the organisation of a Malay Dignity Congress (Kongres Maruah Melayu), when the meaning of 'dignity' is disregarded, and the participants indulge in race bashing?

Demanding Malay political dominance as a means to uphold Malay dignity, harbouring a belief in Malay supremacy, and that all top government posts should be filled by Malays, just shows that the congress participants do not know the meaning of 'dignity'. The disgraced Najib Abdul Razak, who stole the taxpayers' money and heaped blame on an Arab prince and a Penangite, has been forgotten...