The only annoying thing about the article is just the straightforward reporting of the comments it's highlighting which means it's still stuck in a paradigm that there's such a thing as a Malay ethnicity (it's not, it's mainly a political identity with shared cultural features; this is rarely acknowledged today and most ppl are ignorant of it, but this is why the constitutional definition of melayu could not even say berketurunan such and such but it's all cultural practice including religion. Also why the old Malay way of saying converted to Islam is "masuk melayu"). Admittedly it's a paradigm that racists like him perpetuate, so I'm tempted to defend him when he says, no he's Malay, but fuck it.

If you read The Malay Dilemma, he genuinely had no real love for the more ("real"? "full-blooded") Malays/locals/natives with no immediate migrant blood either. He rly said Malays are backward because of incest and too much intestinal worms. Maybe that's why he and Kuan Yew can't stand each other, since their respective brand is hating on their own kind 💀💀💀