Tag: activism

One Year On: Why I Believe both SM and Save 182 have Failed Baguio City in 2012

January 15, 2013 MidwayHaven 161 Comments

It was around a year ago when I wrote a commentary on Get Real Philippines entitled â€œBaguio City: Ruined by Pinoy Mentality.â€ It was a timely article, considering the ramifications of various events happening in the City where I currently live in. One of the Philippinesâ€™ largest commercial and real-estate institutions had plans to construct…

Civics, Development, Environment, Science

GetRealPhilippines.com continues its tradition as the ONLY Real Deal in Philippine Media in 2013!

January 3, 2013January 3, 2013 benign0 137 Comments

Victim mentalities. It is the dysfunctional mindset underlying the empty rhetoric of “change” that so-called “activists” espouse while consistently failing to grasp the irony in doing so. The currency of this activist rhetoric is “the poor”. The entire activist rhetoric is premised on the notion of “the poor” necessarily being in the losing end of…

Development, Society

Online activism in the Philippines in decline as RA 10175 bares teeth

October 25, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

Here is a completely subjective back-of-the-envelope assessment of Philippine online “debate” and “activism” in the last couple of weeks based on casual observation of my Facebook and Twitter timelines: the edge in Philippine online chatter is progressively getting blunt. When I say it is getting blunt I say so in the sense that it is…

Media, Politics, Society, Tech Talk

Should Ateneo de Manila faculty members who choose to continue to teach ‘reproductive health’ be fired?

August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 benign0 41 Comments

Seeing all the rah-rahs — even (horrors!) mudslinging — being thrown by one camp of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill “debate” at the other, I just have to take my hat off to the anti-RH Bill advocates who are employing Roman Catholic dogma as the underlying framework of their position. Their argument is pretty well-grounded….

Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

Philippine Reproductive Health Bill: politically-corrected beyond recognition

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 benign0 71 Comments

The Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill) is one hell of a beast. The Philippines’ Roman Catholic Church literally sees it as such — a beast straight out of hell that will undermine everything that it stands for. It has, today, come down to the vote: Will Philippine Congress approve or reject the bill? It is…

Culture, Development, Religion, Society

Scattered thoughts on the Scarborough scene: Chinese lessons, discretion, and showiness

July 11, 2012July 25, 2013 FallenAngel 39 Comments

小心一点 (Xiao xin yi dian) – Be a little bit careful, about what you’re saying. These words were reportedly presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda’s response to a commentary in a Chinese newspaper that the Philippines is orchestrating a plot to stir up tensions in the dispute over the West Philippine Sea, or South China Sea. Of…

Culture, Government, Politics

Carlos Celdran tells China to kiss Filipino ass over Spratlys and Scarborough row

July 9, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

A friend of mine shared the following graphic apparently making the rounds on Facebook. It was posted on the Carlos Celdran page along with the caption “Love this map. Northwest Philippines. Haha. Kiss our 98 million asses, China. #China â€” with John Joey Ramos, Jason Alinsunurin, Jojo Garcia Dula, Michael Judd Rico and Emil Yap.”…

Culture, Economy, Government, Society

Who is the true Filipino ‘nationalist’?

June 13, 2012 benign0 51 Comments

So-called “cause-oriented groups” (COGs) at present seem to have a monopoly over the label “nationalist” or “patriot”. They claim to be the only true nationalists simply by virtue of their willingness to invoke chaos on our streets and to express themselves in a form of Tagalog that makes generous use of six-syllable words that most…

Civics, Development, Society