Tag: activism

The Yellow-led Philippine Opposition are missing many opportunities to LEAD Filipinos

February 3, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

Small wonder that they continue to look so lost and broken. Rather than lead, the Philippine Opposition in its current form today merely react. One can easily observe just how disturbingly reactive the Opposition are — turning their attention from one thing to another depending on what is “trending”. This sort of behaviour all the…

Politics

“Woke” folks should tread carefully when expressing more than grief over Kobe Bryant’s death

January 28, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

Kobe Bryant’s death at such a young age and in the company of his daughter and friends is tragic. As I said in a previous article, any death is cause for grief as it is very human to grieve. However, the renewed attention Bryant’s life is attracting also reveals some things that should give us…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Filipino communists missed a big chance to up their “cause” when they criticised Duterte’s VFA cancellation

January 25, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

The Philippines’ little community of communists will have to decide who the bigger enemy is — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte or America. Looks like famed Filipino communist Renato Reyes already answered that question. Indeed, for years, Reyes and his comrades have been protesting the presence of US troops on Philippine soil. But now that Philippine…

Government, Politics

Angkas and the #SaveAngkas activist fad are parts of the problem, not the solutions

December 22, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

The latest fashionable hashtag at the moment is #SaveAngkas. Angkas (a colloquial term for “hitch a ride”) is a motorcycle ride hailing and delivery service that is one of those modern-day jeepney-style solutions to systemic problems that could have been avoided if Filipinos exercised a bit more foresight and longer-term planning. The Philippine government is…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Filipinos don’t owe Carlos Celdran ANYTHING

October 12, 2019 benign0 2 Comments

Nobody owes Carlos Celdran anything. He made a name for himself going up against the mighty Roman Catholic Church. But this is something many Filipinos have already been doing in manners that do not get them in trouble with the law. In this context one’s gotta take with a bit of bemusement what “thought leader”…

Culture, Religion, Society

Will “equality” and “acceptance” really make gay people happy? Probably not.

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

This, it seems, is the underlying premise of the “Gay Movement”. An entire industry, a vast landscape of political agendas, and lucrative businesses have been built around this debatable premise. Marketers and brand managers have gotten behind the rainbow flag salivating over the vast new markets it will create. Politicians got on the bandwagon and…

Lifestyle

Filipinos should have a strategic plan to exploit Hong Kong’s troubles

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Tough luck for Hong Kong. This is really the attitude Filipinos should be applying to their regard for the circus going on in Hong Kong. One country’s crisis is another’s bonanza and Manila can profit massively at the regretful but necessary expense of the erstwhile shopping mecca of their chi chi elite classes. Unlike the…

Economy, Money Talks

Filipinos’ little experiment with Western liberalism has failed

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

The writing’s on the wall. University campus “activism” in the Philippines has been discredited thanks to communist infiltration. An entire Opposition slate working off a hopelessly incoherent “liberal” platform suffered a catastrophic loss in this year’s elections. Holdovers of the 1986 “people power” revolution have been reduced to a laughingstock. And a shrill bid to…

Culture, Development, Education