01-18-2024, 09:47 AM
Aaron Ago Dagang should not meet up with Dr M
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From Terence Netto
Dr Mahathir Mohamed, prime dispenser of racially toxic politics in the national discourse, has invited unity minister Aaron Ago Dagang to meet up for a chat.
Apparently, Aaron is under the impression that a chat with Mahathir offers the former a chance to dissuade him from the racialist stances that these days emanate from the former premier.
Aaron is being naïve: Mahathir’s racist orientation is well known and entrenched.
A meet-up with Aaron will only enable Mahathir to create a rhetorical smokescreen behind which he can plausibly portray himself a realist, not a racist; and one who is willing to call a spade a spade.
Unless one is skilled in forensic reasoning, it is futile to joust with Mahathir.
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Dr Mahathir Mohamed, prime dispenser of racially toxic politics in the national discourse, has invited unity minister Aaron Ago Dagang to meet up for a chat.
Apparently, Aaron is under the impression that a chat with Mahathir offers the former a chance to dissuade him from the racialist stances that these days emanate from the former premier.
Aaron is being naïve: Mahathir’s racist orientation is well known and entrenched.
A meet-up with Aaron will only enable Mahathir to create a rhetorical smokescreen behind which he can plausibly portray himself a realist, not a racist; and one who is willing to call a spade a spade.
Unless one is skilled in forensic reasoning, it is futile to joust with Mahathir.
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