COMMENT | Nine ideas to build new multiracial Malaysia

COMMENT | What is the role of us urban, middle-class supporters of Pakatan Harapan?

First of all, let’s all not be too demanding this time. Let’s remember why the first Harapan government fell. Back in 2018, many expected an instant paradise. To become Singapore overnight.

Many also showed our own racial intolerance over a mere three pages of Jawi khat. Even Lim Kit Siang was booed at events and attacked as “Lim Khat Siang” for saying there’s nothing wrong with learning some Jawi (note: Jawi is Malay, not Arabic, and certainly not “becoming Muslim”).

Such racial attitudes on our part will only give golden ammunition to Perikatan Nasional (PN) to attack Harapan. PN won the majority (54 percent) of Malay votes in the Green Wave. In the next five years, I believe they will be waging a guerrilla battle against the new unity government, staging hit-and-run racial attacks whenever possible.

PN is even attacking Umno for “selling out” to Harapan. So don’t give them another Icerd moment. Or demand that Tommy Thomas should become attorney-general again. Or that the UEC exam must be recognised tomorrow. Things like that....