After correcting the claim that "Tamils were the first people here" yesterday, it seems I need to respond to the other side today. I know we're supposed to screenshot the alt-right and not directly engage, but this time I will quote tweet because I wanna make sure he sees it
Within the last few days, @thepatriotsasia posted a few threads attempting to defend the myth of Malays as natives, while denying the parallels between systematic oppression in America and Malaysia. However, I won't deal with the latter topic right now
Instead of subjective political opinions, I want to respond specifically to two factual errors, because in this case it's not a matter of opinion. The first is this thread on the Melayu Asli or Proto-Malays
Strictly speaking, this thread is not wrong. While Malay nativists have for some time now erroneously lumped all orang asli into the "Melayu Proto" category, TP uses the proper term Melayu Asli, and correctly defines it as a single group of orang asli 
As I explained, all orang asli tribes can be divided into three main groups, each of which arrived at a different time. The last group to arrive were the Proto-Malays, who are both culturally and genetically closest to the dominant Deutero-Malays
However, I don't believe this puts Malays on par with the orang asli, nor does it justify Malay hegemony. TP's thread perpetuates the myth that Malays are just another branch of orang asli. Look at the replies to see what I mean
Because the core of the nativist argument is not genetics, but a particular identity, namely a very narrow Malay-Muslim identity. One can "masuk Melayu" by being Muslim and practicing a modern officially-proscribed form of Malay Muslim culture
We already know that non-Malay bumis are treated as second-class bumiputera. How many times has a Malay supremacist argued that groups like the orang asal of Borneo are really just "Malay"?
This goes even further with the orang asli, as efforts are made to assimilate them into Malay Muslim society with no regard for preserving their native religion or culture on anything more than a token basis
TP's thread also ignores the fact that Deutero-Malays arrived much later. That they were related does not make them the same. This isn't a petty argument of who came at what time, but I bring it up because...
Here, the thread makes a fatal error by citing the debunked claim by Zafarina Zainuddin of USM that Malays were the first settlers on the peninsula 60,000 years ago
This is echoed in the other thread, again claiming that Malays and orang asli are the same, and therefore, Malays are the first people of the land
Both sources base their "research" on mitochondrial DNA, and the Sundaland model of Southeast Asian migration as proposed by Oppenheimer. I actually did an entire thread explaining how this theory has been misused by supremacists from Umno and Isma
I don't wish to repeat myself too much, but as I said, Zafarina and the others involved had an openly political agenda. This was never science. And their claims were disproven by the very researchers they cited. Not debated, disproven
I encourage writers of @thepatriotsasia to read the link in my thread. Some relevant screenshots are here, explaining that Malays and orang asli are distinct from each other, and the fraudulent use of mtDNA
I predict that @thepatriotsasia would like to view their rebuttal as a scholarly disagreement, just as creationists wrongly portray evolution as controversial science. But this is not the case
Because this isn't some debate between two groups of researchers, it is between truth and lies. It is a fact that the Aslian and Austronesian languages are different families. It is a fact that there is no such thing as "Malay genes" or "Chinese genes"
With evidence, one could make the case that established "fact" is wrong. But when something is demonstrably incorrect, you can't argue that 2+2=5 even if a biased educational institution says so
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What this incident really demonstrates is the lengths that supremacists are willing to go to further their ethno-nationalist goals. The lies go that far up not only in politics but even in academia. Of course, this isn't unique to Malaysia
The mainland Chinese insistence that minorities like Mongols and Tibetans are part of "one family" directly parallels the "Melayu Raya" concept. Don't even get me started on the bizarre ideas spreading around the alt-right in India
But whereas white nationalist academics in the west are always summarily debunked, acceptance of the ideology in Malaysia means that such mistakes are allowed to spread among the young
Most of the monolingual readers of @thepatriotsasia have no idea that their sources have already been proven wrong. The "academics" have lost any legitimacy in the eyes of all but the fascists who have no desire to learn, but wish only to confirm their prejudices
And this is why @thepatriotsasia is harmful. Helmi, regardless of political opinions, if you're going to write anything on Malay migration into the archipelago, please do not cite disgraced sources. Why do you keep repeating what's known to be untrue?
You already describe yourself as a "Malay nationalist" which is a global alt-right dog-whistle for a supremacist. This is not a conservative opinion. It is the deliberate spread of lies to oppress minorities. This is fascism, Helmi. This is racism
