COMMENT | It’s been stressful lately if you’re a minority in Malaysia, trying hard to stick to the multi-racial liberal line and not resent the silent majority.

For there are unmistakable signs that we are being squeezed yet again so that the Malay right-wing can score points – and we know deep down that not many of the majority race will speak up like Zaid Ibrahim and Hassan Karim have.

In fact, Pasir Gudang MP Hassan just called for a review of Article 153 of the Federal Constitution so that affirmative action policies can be revamped to be more needs-based rather than race-based.

“What is the point of helping wealthy Malays who own stocks and are able to stash money in offshore accounts when poor Chinese, Indians, and indigenous people (Orang Asli) are struggling?” he asked while debating the Supply Bill 2022 in the Dewan Rakyat last week.

Not content with taking our tax money and redistributing it in an overtly racist manner through the budget, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s regime has started clamping down on our freedoms which violate its ideas on moral policing.

First, there was a fiasco over the name of a whiskey followed by some very real infringements and curtailing of freedoms involving gambling and alcohol.

There was Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) prohibition of the sale of liquor in grocery stores, convenience stores, and traditional Chinese medicine halls beginning Nov 1. Incidentally, a strongly worded statement against the ban was signed by...