If only graft – the glue that binds Malay, Chinese in Malaysia
This seemingly valid point was raised by crypto influencer Bitcoin Malaya (@bitcoinmalaya) following revelation by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said that civil servants made up the largest group of individuals arrested for accepting bribes in the past decade.
Of the 4,896 arrests for accepting bribes and 1,689 for giving bribes between 2015 and June 30, 2025 recorded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Malays are the most arrested for bribe-taking (3,690 or 75.4%) while the Chinese excelled as bribe givers (630 or 37.3%).
'Type M 🤝 Type C' was how the poster responded to the statistics made easy for referencing by financial portal The Edge.
Type M 🤝 Type C pic.twitter.com/74nlxcpxtk
— Bitcoin Malaya (@bitcoinmalaya) August 16, 2025
Such gesture prompted a commenter to wonder if graft is halal with another observed that those with tendency to accept bribe 'also don't pray, probably drink alcohol, commit adultery and unbothered about halal/haram anyway'.
'They live just like a non-Muslim. That's why they act like a non-Muslim by willingly accepting bribe,' she opined.
One commenter traced back history to deduce that 'Type C brought this culture into Tanah Melayu back in the old days because they're traders'.
'Meanwhile, the Malays as tuan tanah (landowners) held power yet they had no money to feed their lust. A poetic symbiosis,' he philosophised.
Whether this is a case of the pot calling kettle black, the moral of the story is that 'it goes without saying that Type M & Type C need each other as long as it profiting them'.
So is the graft culture in Malaysia lie with the low minimum wages threshold of below RM3,000 as pointed out by one commenter who wondered 'can the bank officer accept your application to buy RM200K+ house with RM1,700'?
The bottom line insofar as racial equality is concerned is that as few commenters cheekily highlighted 'once again, Type I has been left out 😔' – Aug 20, 2025
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