Restoring Fairness: Minority in Malaysia marginalized?

What is deemed fair in the concept of democracy? Additional resource for the people who needs more or allowing advantages for those who contribute more? For example, should the government help the Malays more because they need more to reach social mobility, or should the government focus the public fund to the minority rich who (may or may not) contributed more in taxes? This dilemma has sparked a lot of debates because the definition of fairness is still vague until now.

Basically, we can actually measure whether we get a fair treatment from the government based on certain rights we enjoy. People can easily campaign that they are being marginalized, but before we started the complaining, we ought to consider these three basic rights of fairness:

1) Rights of free speech: Lets compare ourselves to certain people in a specific country, lets say the Rohingya in Myanmar. When we claim that the govrenment is unfair to us or our people, aren't we the one who are enjoying the most free speech rights in the world right now? We can freely curse, name calling, cyber bullying, photoshoping the government leaders without having the fear of the consequences. Now lets try do the same in Myanmar or maybe even Singapore. The Rohingyas are not only deprived of the free speech, but they also are being suppressed because of their beliefs. Are the minority in Malaysia experienced the same thing? To think that the rights of free speech in Malaysia is worse, then why was the Bersih movement able to conquer the streets of KL and disrupting normal weekends for five times with zero casualties?

2) Rights to survive: This is simply mean that we can live our lives freely without having the scare of government police or soldiers suddenly come crashing into your house and kill your whole family without any reason. Sadly, this rights also do not apply for people of Rohingya in Myanmar. Not only that they are not recognized as the legal citizens of Myanmar, but they are facing the mass murder by the majority Buddhist or government police and army everyday. This does not happen in Malaysia although some minorities believed they are being oppressed by the government everyday.

3) Rights of privacy: If we can be cosy and do what we like in our own home/space without the interference of the government, then we are actually enjoying this rights. Just imagine the life of Rohingyas are constantly being harassed by the majority and Myanmar government; just because their looks and religion are different. Is the same happening to minority ethnic in Malaysia? The answer is big no as they not only enjoying their own private life but sometimes imposing it back to the majority.

We should always reflect on ourselves before we started complaining about the unfairness. Maybe it is because we are used to being unfair to others that we become selfish and self centered. We easily being swayed by the political propaganda of being treated unfairly or marginalized, when we actually the ones who enjoying and reaping much from the prosperity of the country. What we actually should do is to support the government efforts of helping restoring the fairness and basic rights in certain countries, while look at it beyond the scope of political party, race and religion. Who knows this policy might help liberalizing more democracy in the Malaysia, and eventually affect the policy of fairness for the minority as a whole.