KUALA LUMPUR (Politics Now!) - If Khairy Jamaluddin still thinks he can be a future prime minister of Malaysia, then he had better be more honest and transparent.
If he thinks that by throwing a few crumbs now and then to the non-Malays who have suffered under the cruel and bullying regime of his previous Umno party, then he is likely to stay jobless and unable to win any seat for the rest of his political life span.
"The burning question is this – exactly where was Khairy, the son-in-law of former Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, when the brain drain has been happening for the last 60 years? It screams hypocrisy at the highest level when he was part of – even had benefited from – the racist and discriminatory policy, only to blame the system now in an attempt to project himself as the clever guy," wrote a report in the Finance Twitter.
"However, Khairy cunningly refused to link the root problem to “Ketuanan Melayu” – the ideology of Malay supremacy espoused by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), which he was part of till he was fired. The racist and discrimination policy saw brain drain in the form of hundreds of thousands of technical skills went through a large scale migration to other countries."
Crucially, Johari told all the students to come back not to start looking for jobs, but to lead the country as well as to become entrepreneurs and use their connections to develop Malaysia.
But why should they?
"Does Speaker Johari know the reasons those students left Malaysia to study in Tsinghua in the first place? Does he know that Tsinghua is known as “China’s MIT”?" said the report.
"Heck, did he even realize that most of the Malaysian students accepted into Tsinghua were top scorers of UEC examination, the same Unified Examination Certificate that the Government of Malaysia refuses to recognize for decades?"
20% PASSING SCORE? WHAT A JOKE OF AN EDUCATION SYSTEM IS THIS!
According to the Finance Twitter report, both Khairy and Johari deliberately ignored the vital ingredient in retaining top brain – education.
"Of course, they can’t demonize the Malay-language national schools for the disaster as it would be a political suicide. The Chinese who were told to go back to “tongsan” (China) are now being asked to come back."
The Malaysian education system is frequently called a joke. Last year, at least 90,000 of the 373,974 candidates who sat for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination – equivalent to “O” Level – had failed the Mathematics paper, while a whopping 52,674 candidates flunked English. Overall, 42.9% of the candidates, or 160,435 students, failed at least one subject. But here’s the best part.
"According to some teachers who used to mark SPM exam papers, the passing score could be as low as 20%, especially for subjects like Mathematics and Science in order to make students of certain ethnicity happy. Even then, some 30,000 candidates who were registered did not sit for the SPM. It’s not surprising that the system produces unemployable graduates," the report elaborates.
"Get real, do you really think after being discriminated since their young age, the talented Tsinghua graduates would foolishly come back to start a new business so that it can provide employment for local unemployable graduates, a problem created by the racist policy in the first place? Worse, when the business thrives, the Bumiputeras will force their way and demand 51% stake." - Politics Now!
POLITICS NOW! / FINANCE TWITTER
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