Not much of an apology: Health minister Anutin unrepentant after face mask tirade against "farang"

[DannyCarlton]

39 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

He praised the reaction of his government to the crisis and admitted it was just one farang that set him off. 

No doubt a TVF member. Names on a postcard please.

[Kenny202]

21 minutes ago, BestB said:

And this is where our spineless western governments need to do something. Imagine if a health minister in UK or AU or US said he would never apologise to asians ? There would be outrage and most likely riots not to mention letters of protest from every Asian country , but when tables are turned , our spineless governments keep quite

Totally agree with you. Same with all the new visa requirements etc. Diplomacy normally dictates a reaction or similar conditions set for Thais in our countries. Our westetn embassies are useless

[Creasy]

What a hyper sensitive, insecure and way out of his depth health minister.

 

One whitey refuses a tainted and useless face mask and he shows his true colours by going on a rant saying he will never apologise to a farang.

 

What a p.o.s

[Yadon Toploy]

And you thought it was bad having a convicted drug smuggler with a fake degree as a cabinet minister.

 

Lol.

[Kenny202]

25 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

However, He reserves the right to be a racist xenophobe.

I just love how thais turn thins around. My 3yo tells better stories. He himself makes very racist and derogatory not to mention ignorant comments...then turns around and says he wants nothing to do with racist farang lol. Could you imagine how our media back home would tear him to shreds 5555 Like the minister for heroin import. He didnt plead guilty and wasnt imprisoned in Australia for 8 years. Government just provided him with accomodation ????????

[neeray]

33 minutes ago, morrobay said:

Who cares what they say. Its a two way street. Look at all the negative/ condescending comments about Thais by foreigners around here.

Maybe he's been reading ThaiVisa Forum and has read comments calling Thais things like "stupid, brainless, low IQ, lacking in grey matter, pea brain ......" . So his rant is pay back.

Edited February 8, 2020 by neeray
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[Yadon Toploy]

2 minutes ago, neeray said:

Maybe he's been reading ThaiVisa Forum and has read comments calling Thais things like "stupid, brainless, low IQ, lacking in grey matter, pea brain ...... . So his rant is pay back.

Going on a stupid, brainless, low IQ rant against foreigners because he was called a stupid, brainless, low IQ on ThaiVisa?

 

Doesn't that rather prove the point rather than pay it back?

[actonion]

He's got a chip on his shoulder

[poohy]

30 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

Foreigners should not look down on Thais, he said. He said that he has lots of nice foreign friends. 

 

But any racist foreigner is not his friend, he intimated.

 

55555555555555555. I'm just wondering who the real racist here is? 

Never mind that, i am wondering who his supposed foreign friends are ?!

[Somtamnication]

Tons of Thais are shredding him to pieces on FB. Thank God.

[Forza2002]

I've lived here for years and it amuses me the bigoted, xenophobic, behavior of the HiSo Thais. They are quick enough to send themselves and their kids to get a proper education in western countries, the woman all want to look like a westerner and have boob & nose jobs, apply whitening cream etc... Most of the movie stars, soap stars, top models are Luk Krung and yet these two faced hypocritics look down their noses at foreigners....

[Thian]

Well mr Anutin how can i buy mouthmasks if they are ALL sold out in Nonthaburi? This pic was taken 15 minutes ago in Thaiwatsadu.

 

 

[DLock]

8 minutes ago, neeray said:

Maybe he's been reading ThaiVisa Forum and has read comments calling Thais things like "stupid, brainless, low IQ, lacking in grey matter, pea brain ......" . So his rant is pay back.

 

Fact's don't offend.

[spidermike007]

Burma and the neighboring nations, are now benefitting partially for the fact that Thailand seems to have gone out of their way to make themselves repulsive to alot of people, as a nation. Not the people. I love the people here. It is the stupendous degree of arrogance, hubris, ignorance, racism, hatred of foreigners, and the stunning lack of vision, on the part of the fabulously incompetent leaders and ministers here. It is really turning off the planet to Thailand. If they could only see how they are perceived. Such ignoramus fools. 

 

Now, after years and years of fake nationalist ranting, and insufferable arrogance, they are really starting to pay the price, and they are getting exactly what they so wholeheartedly deserve, which is to be shunned by the planet. Oh well. 

 

We sow what we reap. We make the bed, and then we have to lie within it. 

 

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion. Arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom. Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block. Arrogance is a roadblock on the highway of wisdom.

 

 

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Leo Tolstoy 

 

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….”

— George Bernard Shaw

 

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

 

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”

— Albert Einstein

 

[Japhrodisiac]

47 minutes ago, BestB said:

He should be fired immediately for 2 reasons 

1. being a health minister, he should at least know this mask protects from nothing 

2. telling tourists to get out because they do not want to wear useless mask At the time of tourist crisis is beyond retarded

He isn't going anywhere, the ruling party needed him and still needs his seat as these were the smaller party seats they took away from Thanatorn and spread around that helped them get over the line in the election. He's going nowhere, unless he starts shooting Foreigners in broad daylight, and even then...maybe not

[NanLaew]

50 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

purest racism

Misanthropy maybe. Xenophobia more likely.

 

But racism? Hardly.

[mtls2005]

4 minutes ago, poohy said:

Never mind that, i am wondering who his supposed foreign friends are ?!

His bio says he "attended" Hofstra University (Long Island), so assuming that is factual he may have some foreign friends from college?

[JusticeGB]

I wonder if he knows that tourism is seriously down and that many expats are leaving Thailand because this Government keeps showing it hates farangs!

[MJKT2014]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Anutin was furious that a "farang" refused to accept his offer of a mask at a public event.

He didn't just refer to the foreigner as a "farang" but once as "ai puak farang" and secondly as "ai puak Europe" in the clip of the minister talking. Says it all really.

[Old Croc]

4 minutes ago, JusticeGB said:

I wonder if he knows that tourism is seriously down and that many expats are leaving Thailand because this Government keeps showing it hates farangs!

It was his department that introduced the O-A health insurance bill to cabinet.

[Crossy]

42 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

One foreigner refused the mask. He was probably shocked at being offered something for free in Thailand and thought there had to be a catch.

 

Apparently said mask was unsealed so the catch could well have been corona.

[NanLaew]

8 minutes ago, JusticeGB said:

I wonder if he knows that tourism is seriously down and that many expats are leaving Thailand because this Government keeps showing it hates farangs!

No, he doesn't read TV.

[Dcheech]

43 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

The fact he hasn't be censured speaks volumes

A mealy mouthed explanation, no apology and  ---- what else? Likely nothing.    As this is a commonly held belief in government and many in society. I would hope western expats have pulled head of sand and are watching. This concerns long term living in los plans.

 

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Thailand's Public Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul has refused to apologise for suggesting that foreigners who don't wear face masks should be thrown out of Thailand.

How about apologizing for cursing farangs?? ---- as in ai-farang!! ???? Or did the Nation News Media not mention that because they need to granjie Anutin? Well they own this site, so better realize just who is feeding you the news and what thier agenda is.

  

 

Edited February 8, 2020 by Dcheech

[soalbundy]

Just a gay hissy fit

[anterian]

Why all the fuss, he has simply confirmed yet again what we all know is this government's attitude towards farangs. 

[ParkerN]

43 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

Totally agree with you. Same with all the new visa requirements etc. Diplomacy normally dictates a reaction or similar conditions set for Thais in our countries. Our westetn embassies are useless

 

Correct. As much use as a chocolate teapot. They're much more interested in doing what they think will maintain their foothold on China's doorstep than encouraging reasonable behaviour. Thailand has played that card before. It worked once, it'll work twice - right?

[monkfish]

Had the British Minister Of Health said anything like that he would have already been sacked.
In Thailand he's the leader of Bhumjaithai Party and important for holding the coalition government together so he can pretty much say what likes.
On top of that he is very popular amongst Thai's for his part in legalizing Medical Cannabis and making dangerous pesticides Illegal.
For this reason many Thai's will defend him.

[Kenny202]

31 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

I've lived here for years and it amuses me the bigoted, xenophobic, behavior of the HiSo Thais. They are quick enough to send themselves and their kids to get a proper education in western countries, the woman all want to look like a westerner and have boob & nose jobs, apply whitening cream etc... Most of the movie stars, soap stars, top models are Luk Krung and yet these two faced hypocritics look down their noses at foreigners....

I think you would find.... as they always have been, Westerners and western influences have been eyed as a threat by the elite here. I mean why would they want to change anything? The agenda here isn't to advance or improve the country or the lot of your average Thai. Maintain the status quo at all costs

[toofarnorth]

52 minutes ago, ParkerN said:

Well, there you go. Anutin here is displaying another 'awkward' aspect of the Thai pooyay's psychology. Never admit you made a mistake, you'll lose face if you do.

 

Inevitable really, as the English say, "after the Lord Mayor's procession, comes the dustcart..."

 

It isn't going to improve, this is what Thailand accepts, so this is what Thailand deserves. I just wish there were some foreign journalists ready at hand to publicise this guy's behviour, but I guess that Thailand just isn't important enough.

 

Not going off topic but thanks ParkerN.  My dad many many years ago after say , a hot day then turning to a storm would say " Oh well after the Lord Mayor's show ".  I never did find out 'till now what did follow . Thank you big.

[Rookiescot]

Problem is this kind of talk from a government minister is a dog whistle to all the village racists out there to further grief the local farangs.