Tanda Putera: Deconstructing prejudice

COMMENT I am in full agreement with the director of the forthcoming film ‘Tanda Putera', Shuhaimi Baba, that we should withhold any critique of the film until we have seen it.

I have so far merely warned Malaysians about the record of the Barisan National in resurrecting the spectre of ‘May 13' at every general election since 1969.

Others have protested against some of the images posted on the Facebook for the film. But judging from Shuhaimi's interview in an online media, I am not too sanguine about her impartiality and capacity to discern fact from prejudice in a mature manner:

"When I first read Kua (Kia Soong's) book, I thought what came out first and shining through was his prejudices against Malays and his resentment against the office of the prime minister then...