In fact, Kit Siang even refuses to confirm that he was born in China and not in Batu Pahat, where he spoke last night. And he also refuses to confirm that PAP sent him to Malaysia in 1965 to manage DAP after Singapore split from Malaysia. And Kit Siang’s ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ is PAP’s agenda, which is one reason why Singapore split from Malaysia when Umno would not agree to it.
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Listening to Lim Kit Siang speak and reading what he writes is like witnessing something that comes out from North Korea. Basically, just like what North Korea does, Kit Siang practices and propagates hate. And this is the reason why Kit Siang has thus far not said anything negative about North Korea or condemned the missile incidences.
“…whether on his return from his shameful and humiliating visit to the White House and US President Trump on Sept. 12 in his capacity as a ‘kleptocrat’ and ‘MO1’…,” said Kit Siang last night in a kopitiam in Batu Pahat. Kit Siang’s rules are simple. He can say anything he likes about others but if you were to say he is a racist who is anti-Monarchy, anti-Malay and anti-Islam he would get very angry.
In fact, Kit Siang even refuses to confirm that he was born in China and not in Batu Pahat, where he spoke last night. And he also refuses to confirm that PAP sent him to Malaysia in 1965 to manage DAP after Singapore split from Malaysia. And Kit Siang’s ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ is PAP’s agenda, which is one reason why Singapore split from Malaysia when Umno would not agree to it.
The humorous part about this whole episode is that Kit Siang truly plays coffee-shop or kopitiam politics (he goes to coffee-shops and kopitiams to preach his brand of Chinese politics steeped in hate).
The audience at these venues is very Chinese. Many are products of Chinese schools and speak very little English and very poor Bahasa Malaysia. So you need to communicate with them in Chinese, and even then with the right dialect because they not only speak Chinese but also only a certain dialect –and if you speak the wrong dialect they would not understand you.
I remember giving a ceramah in Pandamaran back in 2008 and I threw in a few Chinese words. There was total silence and no response from the crowd. The host then told me I was speaking the wrong dialect so the crowd did not understand what I had just said. He then told me the correct phrase of what I had just said and I repeated what I said in the correct dialect. The crowd then roared with laughter and clapped.
Yes, it is not enough you speak in Chinese. It has to be the correct dialect as well. And avoid English and Bahasa Malaysia. When I started to speak in English the host tapped me on the shoulder and told me to switch to Bahasa Malaysia. They do not speak English, said the host. So I switched to Bahasa Malaysia but the blank looks on the faces continued. I then switched to bazaar Bahasa Malaysia and only then did the smiles appear.
This is an example of a DAP crowd and this is the crowd that Kit Siang spoke to last night at the coffee-shop or kopitiam. And these people do not want to hear about economic growth, GDP, GNP, and other economic issues. They just want to hear you hentam the government, the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister’s wife, Umno and Barisan Nasional. And that is why Mat Sabu is also popular with the Chinese.
“Semalam gua tak boleh cakap sebab gua sakit tekak. Olang Umno cakap gua sakit tekak sebab gua banyak cakap buluk pasal olang. Tak baik cakap macam itu pasal olang sakit. Mahadey masuk hospital sebab opelate dada. Gua tak cakap Mahadey opelate dada sebab hati busuk.”
The crowd roars with laughter and claps enthusiastically. Mat Sabu is a hit. And he is a hit because he suka mengata orang. And that, too, is how Kit Siang conducts himself. Kit Siang is a Chinese version of Mat Sabu and he entertains the same type of audience that Mat Sabu does.
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