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YOUR OPINION | “When a country thrives on symbolism and not on reality, nothing is true or real.”
Zahidi’s academic credentials in the spotlight after Veveonah’s taunt
EM: Like the platform shoes preferred by unusually short men with big egos, or toupees by the significantly bald, these semi-literate people who populate “politik kebangsaan” (national politics) first gravitate toward title mills to shore up their credentials before reach the high and mighty with the power to bestow titles.
Adoring themselves with hollow letters and titles, not unlike cheap costume jewelery or those “Roleks” on Petaling Street, they strut through Putrajaya and Parliament, looking important with nothing escaping their lips except the nonsense dripping annoyingly like a faucet. dripping.
So what does it say about local politics as a whole when sleazeballs strip away their academic credentials like that? Aspiring Cantabrian before Bersatu still walks tall and proud?
One would have thought that an embarrassing exposition like that would have scared others like this Padang Besar fellow from Global University not to fall for the same fraud.
But no. They have to keep showing that they have no shame, none. And what is even more revealing than that is his choir line called the National Council of Teachers, whose main lights, as I understand it, organized the Kongres Maruah last year.
None of its members has seen fit to condemn its benefactors with false titles.
Fernando: The most important moral question here about Vice Minister of Communications and Multimedia Zahidi Zainul Abidin is not how one cheats by declaring their grades false to improve their academic profile image, but rather the hypocrisy of it.
He has been accused of faking his rating in the public domain, yet he dared to criticize another for being false, which turned out to be false.
We have a lot of hypocrisy in our politicians: don’t do what I do, even if what I do is wrong.
If this is found to be wrong, Zahidi must resign or be fired because his credibility is suspect. Is the cabinet of Perikatan Nasional (PN) full of charlatans?
Just a Malay: When a country thrives on symbolism and not reality, nothing is true or real.
Everything is based on perception. We live on clichés. See how our leaders demonize the DAP (read: the Chinese). How they cleanse themselves of corruption and re-label themselves, just look at “Boss Ku”. How they defend their stupidity and intolerance.
Everything about our policy and its players is false. The Sheraton Move was owned by a man who fought for 20 years for reform. We have a religious figure between our teeth. Defenders of a race who steal a fund earmarked for that race.
False, false, false … that’s what we’ve all become. So a fake title, what is the problem?
Hibiscus: What’s wrong with not having a college degree? Why do Malaysians long for college degrees?
You don’t see this kind of thinking in developed countries. In fact, anyone who has achieved a lot despite not having a college degree will be an inspiration to others who do not.
Many of the great achievers and respected individuals in society are college dropouts and college dropouts.
The Wakandan: Academic grade is not always important to politicians. it’s more about the ability and attributes that people like and want.
If a politician lies about personal data, it simply shows that the person is not honest. If the person thinks that a lie about academic performance is needed to have a more credible position, that person can lie to get what they want, and they can also lie when it is convenient.
Therefore, it is not what people should want. It’s hard to justify what he did.
Dr. Raman: Publicly claiming to have an academic qualification, but it turns out to be a fake, isn’t that a cheat, a violation of the penal code?
Also, people who have been entrusted with high positions and authority in public institutions, apparently advertising themselves as qualified for the job but with false titles, isn’t that an abuse of power?
Ranjit Singh Malhi: There are numerous politicians, corporate trainers, and entrepreneurs with fake and unaccredited titles from title factories.
For example, one of the top officials at a major human resource management (HRM) institute has a fake doctorate in HRM from a local university. He also claims to have a Ph.D. from the University of Honolulu, which is a non-accredited institution.
It is high time the Malaysian government declared the possession of false and dubious titles a crime and included it in the relevant legislation. Countries like Indonesia and South Africa have.
Sentinel: For a person who runs the portfolio of the vice minister of communications and multimedia, surely he is an expert in providing fodder for netizens.
Obviously, it’s clear that your press department is monitoring our feedback and updating it on its metrics, hence the need to shift the cyberbullying debate, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) student Veveonah Mosibin, to something else.
Well, netizens will remember you for being a bully from start to finish… and you can be sure they are ammunition for the Sabah state elections.
Blue Mountains: There are so many ministers that they no longer consider themselves fit to hold public office.
A minister violated quarantine laws. Two officers wrongly accused an 18-year-old student of lying. A deputy minister exposed by obtaining degrees in mills.
However, the prime minister could still stay with them because firing them may result in the prime minister being fired.
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