No wonder some celebrities are too noisy. They probably believe in these lines attributed to Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, not the victim.” “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” It seems these celebrities and the wokes are afraid of being branded as “oppressors,” so they try to be as noisy as…

I’ve realized another way woke statue-destroyers are actually like the dictators. Many dictators have tried to destroy items of old culture, often killing people along the way, in order to make the world into their own image. Qin Shi Huang, more known as Shi Huang Ti, the first emperor of China is thought by older…

I have the impression wokes and the “oldies” are mostly the same. The wokes tend to complain about some oldies as being dictators and micromanagers of other people, or even right-wing and “status-quo” supporters. But young wokes are no different. Someone buys a snack for themselves in the house. His mom may tell him, “you…

  Ah, I see now. People who call for mass testing assume that if we know who are the Covid infected, there would be no need for quarantine or lockdowns. I don’t think so. Lockdowns and quarantine are not really dependent on testing, but on what experts decide is the best way to prevent the…

  They are not new issues, but these three points are worth reexamining in the time of ABS-CBN’s second closure. 1. Most media in the Philippines are either owned by politicians or business interests with political connections. Even the vaunted “fact-checkers” such as CMFR and Vera Files have admitted this. ABS-CBN has long been connected…

One of the funniest things I’ve heard from people ranting against Duterte is how they hate “one man-rule.” I wonder if they honestly think Duterte is in control of everything. Of course, I had the same idea before as a youngster, when I relied on sources that kept playing up how one person could be…

I might be jumping the gun, but there might be people who will make that emotional appeal or moral blackmail that if you don’t support ABS-CBN or even any of our local entertainment, you are a traitor. Because you are Filipino, it is your duty should watch and praise Filipino-made shows. Patriotism, they say. Hogwash.…

There was a post saying “take a stand on the ABS-CBN” issue. Either you support ABS-CBN or you are a supporter of dictatorship and corruption, the post implies. It’s again “either you’re with us or against us.” Hogwash. I call on my right to be ambivalent on the issue because there is middle ground. I…

The incident in Dasmariñas Village in Makati seems to have people up in arms against the police again, not long after the Ragos shooting. A video shows a police officer tackling and trying to cuff what looks like a foreign man just in front of his house, who later escaped back into the house. The…

Remember the days when if you’d refuse to touch someone dirty, you’d be seen as “maarte” (overacting) or “matapobre” (acting like a rich snob)? Or that passed-around story of Imelda Marcos telling her Blue Ladies not to bring soap or sanitizer when meeting poor people? Nowadays, that’s seen as wise. Thanks to Covid-19, people are…