Dendan Setia (Nins)I haven't said much about Mentega Terbang because just thinking about how it went down saddens and enrages me so much, and much of it has to do with how we don't actually have a stable majoritarian demographic - sociologically that's been key to 'tolerances' of dissident views. (It's why despite Thais' own Buddhist views on sexuality being just as conservative as Filipino Catholic ones, there's an impression that queer subpockets can live & even flourish, with caveats). So unlike other heterogeneous societies with stable majority or homogenous ones, even when tame non-mainstream views are being pushed by a majoritarian person, it cannot survive backlash. This is a recent example - what happened to that comedy club is another. This is one legacy of post-colonialism outside of the west as well as global islamic ethnofascism.
Anyway, my thoughts were jumping off on from this thread: https://twitter.com/RohanBeg/status/1632356111654453248?t=pV2s8O9TjDHZ43LaNCeHjA&s=19
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Rohan Javet Beg Goes To Mastodon (link in bio) on Twitter
“What's happening to Mentega Terbang is why when Michelle Yeoh wins that Oscar, the best thing Malaysians can do instead of celebrating is solemnly observe a moment of silence for our own storytellers who will never earn similar recognition because Msia might jail them for trying.”