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| This image, courtesy of SiakapKeli (original post here), shows a viral post in 2015 about a medical assistant helping an elderly woman. |
Whenever I read viral news on the internet about someone doing a good deed, it will always be someone with a job (example: civil servants); So far, in Malaysia, at least, I have yet to see anyone viralling a good deed by an unemployed person.
From what I can remember, in 2017, a video of a traffic policeman removing a fallen tree branch off the road gets a lot of praises by Malaysian netizens.
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| This image, also taken from SiakapKeli (original post here), shows a screenshot footage of the said traffic policeman removing a fallen tree branch off the road. |
Going back two years before that, in 2015, when photos of lazy Malaysian civil servants go viral, a Facebook user openly defended civil servants by posting an article praising a civil servant, which in this case, a medical assistant, helping an elderly woman (first image at the beginning). Apparently, this move made by that said Facebook user was to change the negative perception towards Malaysian civil servants.
To be honest, though, while I do praise anyone doing a good deed, I strongly hate the obvious and blatant double-standards practiced by the Malaysian society.
Why am I saying this?
Well, isn't it already obvious? Because there is not even one good deed by the unemployed that goes viral. The only deeds by the unemployed that go viral are nothing but bad deeds, and ONLY bad deeds! The Malaysian society, as usual, enjoys vilifying the jobless, thinking that it is fun and rewarding to do so!
Want some proof? Just read the newspapers. Watch the news on TV. Look up the viral media on the Internet. Read the comments of Malaysian netizens in some news articles posted on Facebook or whatever social media platforms available. I can guarantee that if it's something about the unemployed, it will always be the evils of the unemployed, unemployment bashing and showing only the LAZINESS OF THE JOBLESS. Even newspaper comic strips bash the unemployed as lazy!
As mentioned earlier, when photos of lazy Malaysian civil servants go viral, some 'hero' defended these civil servants by showing the good side of them.
But when the bad deeds and laziness of the unemployed go viral, not even a soul came forward to defend the unemployed by showing the good side of them!
Why can't the Malaysian society accept the fact that anyone can be lazy, whether that person is unemployed or have jobs? Is laziness a trait strictly reserved for the unemployed only? Are the unemployed and jobless deserve only hate and scorn from the society? When was the last time Malaysians listened to the song 'Aku Penganggur' by Sudirman?
In the end, no matter how I rant about this, it will all be the same:
Whatever good deeds of the unemployed will never go viral.
RemainUnknown522 Out.
