Ti said he was baffled by Lim’s defence of Hew over the latter’s controversial racist remarks made in the run up to the May 7 Sarawak election.
While Lim had slammed Hew over his use of vulgarity, he however denied the latter’s remarks were racist as alleged.
“It takes superhuman ability to deny what Hew had said was racist. Does the ‘D’ in DAP stand for ‘Denial’?”
Ti said Hew could have got his point across that the DAP Batu Kitang candidate, Abdul Aziz Isa, would be able to take on “corrupt” PBB leaders if elected without dragging the word “Malay” into his argument.
“Let’s face it, if an Umno politician had inserted the race of someone he or she was chastising, DAP would make a meal out of it and slam leaders who say it is not racist,” he said, adding that it was highly likely that Lim would even demand Prime Minister Najib Razak be held accountable.
Ti, a Central Working Committee member of MCA, said if Lim and DAP were sincere about standing against racism, then more stringent action must be taken against Hew, with the least being banning him from speaking publicly.
Ti also questioned why the controversial figure had not shown any remorse and said, “If Hew really believes what he said was not racist, I dare him to repeat what he said in Malay and English.
“When International Trade and Industries Minister Mustapa Mohamed joked about a new building being like a new wife, he apologised after it ruffled feathers.”
Ti said if Hew had an iota of decency in him, he would apologise, unless the ‘A’ in DAP stood for “Arrogant.”
He added that Hew’s speech was similar to the kind of thrash talk spewed by other frustrated netizens, who spoke in condescending tones to Sarawakians after Barisan Nasional won the state election with a landslide victory.
Hew attracted controversy after a video surfaced online, in which he urged Chinese voters in Batu Kitang to back Abdul Aziz, so the latter could “screw the Malays”, and “screw the corrupt Malay officials” when he made it to the state assembly.
However Hew, known as “Superman” of DAP after his penchant for wearing Superman T-shirts, accused Umno “cybertroopers” of distorting the subtitles of the speech he made in Mandarin to make him look like a racist.
Hew said nowhere in his speech had he asked Sarawak Chinese to vote for Abdul Aziz so that he could “screw” the Malays.
He also said he was only referring to the “corrupt” PBB (Sarawak’s anchor party) and not the Malays per se.