COMMENT | Stoking dissent against vernacular schools

COMMENT | Academic Teo Kok Seong met the police recently to respond to the reports lodged against him for making a statement with the intention to incite. This provides him with the opportunity to refute the charge.

In addition to this claim, Teo appears to have provoked further racial, and political controversy and division by asserting in the Merdeka Times video that the existence of Chinese schools is the reason why the Chinese community thinks badly of the Malays.

Teo’s comments follow the Federal Court’s decision in support of a ruling by the Court of Appeal which states that vernacular schools are constitutional and recognised the use of Chinese and Tamil languages in vernacular schools or national-type schools.

Non-Malay social media users have...