I am confused to how much sensitivity is too much?
Malaysians seem to be in a particularly irritable mood of late. It's not as if our deplorable lack of manners while driving has worsened overnight, or that we're even more inclined to cut the queue than before. Everywhere around us, it seems as if our levels of tolerance have dropped significantly, and in less than a year the public domain has shrunk equally so.
It is no longer possible to talk about matters deemed sensitive to some quarters, be it the question of freedom of religion and belief, to entrenched and institutionalized economic disparities in our midst.
Every time one of us displays the temerity to raise the obvious, the voice is hushed by the virulent tirade. We have become ever-so-sensitive, albeit in the most insensitive and often intolerant ways.
They want a bright Malaysia with bright young minds who could think and differentiate the positive and the negative, but if all around us, from our parents to our teachers and lecturers tell us to keep sensitive matters to ourselves and we cannot discuss it, then how can these so called bright young minds move forward, if we, us, they, are held back from voicing out?
How much sensitivity is too much?
Malaysians seem to be in a particularly irritable mood of late. It's not as if our deplorable lack of manners while driving has worsened overnight, or that we're even more inclined to cut the queue than before. Everywhere around us, it seems as if our levels of tolerance have dropped significantly, and in less than a year the public domain has shrunk equally so.
It is no longer possible to talk about matters deemed sensitive to some quarters, be it the question of freedom of religion and belief, to entrenched and institutionalized economic disparities in our midst.
Every time one of us displays the temerity to raise the obvious, the voice is hushed by the virulent tirade. We have become ever-so-sensitive, albeit in the most insensitive and often intolerant ways.
They want a bright Malaysia with bright young minds who could think and differentiate the positive and the negative, but if all around us, from our parents to our teachers and lecturers tell us to keep sensitive matters to ourselves and we cannot discuss it, then how can these so called bright young minds move forward, if we, us, they, are held back from voicing out?
How much sensitivity is too much?
