#KamiNampak is a youth-led campaign to 🕵️ monitor the use of the conflict rhetoric that incites race and religion issues by elected representatives. First conceived as a 🔎 monitoring campaign during the Johor 2021 State Elections, #KamiNampak has employed 🙋 youth volunteers to monitor the 🗳 election campaigns in multiple elections.
The 🙏 race or religion card is characterised as disinformation, misinformation and malinformation of a racial or religious group, falsely manufacturing or associating a political, economic or social threat, and emphasised use of one’s own race or religion to 👍 garner support. Such political rhetoric is employed to highlight differences between people and opposition towards groups and 💬 ideas. These 📰 narratives blame various groups for social problems, reinforcing negative stereotypes, and may create 🧨 demand for policies that harm a specific racial or religious group.
It is time for racial and religious sentiment in 🇲🇾 Malaysian politics to be a thing of the 🗓 past. This is necessary for our democracy to experience a more healthy and mature practice in campaigning and ⚖️ governance.
