You were way out of your depth. It was obviously clear. And that was the reason why you had to pull the microphone away from KS Bawani when she was speaking.
But you definitely had no awareness of this, I’m sure. You thought you were all that in your sophisticated-looking pantsuit and fancy title of President of Suara Wanita.
Trying to go for a SW1M? Try not to sink instead!
You were at a university, Universiti Utara Malaysia, an institution of learning where people go to (where most of them are actually legally adults) obtain an education.
You were a part of a panel at a forum. A panel forum, which I’m very sure, had an objective to bring forth discourse and intellectual discussion, and to share that with the students.
The forum, which was titled “Seiringkah Mahasiswa dan Politik”, had given the panellists a chance to speak, and also had a session that was open to the floor, a chance for the students to speak.
If the panellists were allowed to share their thoughts and opinions, then by all means, the members of the floor should be given that chance too. It is a forum anyway.
What right did you have to stop a person from speaking? What right did you have to pull the microphone away from someone when she is speaking?
Is it because you are older? And this is considering the fact that you said to Bawani that she had to learn to respect her elders.
Respecting elders doesn’t mean blindly following what they say. Respecting elders is also feeling the responsibility to correct them when they are wrong and heading down the wrong path.
Or did you feel you had a right to pull the microphone away because you thought it was your forum? And, to you, this meant that only you had a right to an opinion?
I really felt that you were just scared. You were scared because suddenly, there was this young girl dressed casually in a long sleeved T-shirt and jeans who could articulate better than you.
I think you felt threatened because this young girl was sharing opinions that were so well thought out and clear that the rest of the attendees might just have been persuaded by her.
Probably the desperation that you felt was so intense that you couldn’t do anything else but force her to keep quiet by pulling the microphone away from her so no one could hear her.
You were a big bully. You didn’t even have the decency to let her finish speaking and then counter her opinions with your own. But then again, you didn’t have much to say.
You just ranted along about how those who didn’t like the state Malaysia is in to leave the country. Come on! How stupid do you think people are?
And what is it with the animal analogy? I don’t even want to comment on that one! Basically, you didn’t even have quality rebuttals for Bawani. You just bullied her away from the microphone.
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