Sharp increase in racism incidents in 2021, says rights group

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Racial discrimination on the rise

Amid all the political noise, the “Malaysia Racial Discrimination Report 2021” released by rights NGO Pusat Komas last week went almost unnoticed.

When I began reading the report, I was on the verge of feeling despondent but some bits of information towards the end lifted me up.

First, as they say, the bad news. According to Pusat Komas the number of incidents of racial discrimination and racism more than doubled from 21 in 2020 to 53 in 2021.

We all know that racial discrimination exists although most people don’t talk about it openly either because they fear being prosecuted under one of the many preventive laws or the the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, or because it is not the Asian or Malaysian way.

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