Real talk: one of the consequences of NEP in a neoliberal framework is that you have so many bumis learning to girlboss and lean in too close to the sun. That's why they're the best racists, capitalists, and Zionists*.

Every single one of these assholes found the "meritocracy" argument in their teens and never interrogated the myth of the lazy native except by accident on their way to be an liberal (lol) ethnonationalist (lolol).

#Malaysia #MyToots #MYpoli #tootSEA

*the standard maturation cycle of an urban bumi liberal esp anglophone does unfortunately include thinking that maybe the issue of Palestine is overblown and it *is* complicated. The Ta-Nehisi Coates Journey, if you will
Not a single thought in that noggin that's not been greenlit by the Washington consensus