#like you can recognize that institutionalized racial segregation and having entire ethnic groups legally enshrined as second class citizens

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saw mahathir's statement on palestine and it's like 'heartbreaking: worst person you know just made a great point' because what he says is true and right and needs to be said (calling out US's vested interest in israel as a proxy state, their funding of israeli apartheid, US lying about WMDs to justify iraq war and biden lying about seeing photos of beheaded babies to justify anti-palestinian ethnic cleansing) but his and other malaysian pm's support for palestine past and present will forever feel hollow to me considering mahathir and co are also proponents of ketuanan melayu which enshrines its own kind of racial apartheid system in malaysia like... hello