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COMMENT | Professors must be brave, lead public discourse
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COMMENT | I want to pick up on the recent discussion on our local professors by well-known podcaster Khairy Jamaluddin.

He mentioned on his podcast that our country has cowardly professors who are not willing to speak out to counter the misinformation that is spread around.

In the context of the podcast, Khairy was saying this in criticism of our local history professors who don’t seem to want to voice out and engage against those who are obviously confused or are inaccurate on the kinds of historical information they are spreading.

He criticised professors who are at public universities for having their salaries paid for by taxpayers’ money but do nothing to defend the country’s history.

Khairy, who also hosts another podcast called “Sejarah Kita” (our history), said that he finds it very hard to get...


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