Tag: cancel culture

The “wokes”: providing misleading answers to the wrong questions

February 1, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 2 Comments

History points out how human civilizations and societies have evolved. From the simple hunter-gatherer groups of peoples to the extremely complicated and interconnected relationships built through globalization, humans have definitely found ways to persevere and achieve greater human development that would even leave our ancestors astonished. However, beyond these marvelous achievements of the human race,…

Civics, Economy, Politics, Society

Gwyneth Anne Chua is the latest Yellowtard outrage fad

December 31, 2021 benign0 22 Comments

So this person Gwyneth Chua is, it seems, the latest bozo who is a victim of their own careless social media behaviour. Chua seems to have been literally caught on camera on a night out with friends when she should have been in quarantine after having just flown in from the United States. According to…

Society

The Philippines needs less emotional millennials who can think strategically in terms of national interests

May 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Excellent read, this piece “A millennial considers the new German Problem after 30 years of peace”. Its author, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and German millennial Ulrike Franke, laments how her demographic “struggle to think in terms of interests, we struggle with the concept of geopolitical power, and we struggle…

Development, Society

There Was A Time That Ridiculing Something That Was Different Was Not Racism

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Gogs 2 Comments

When I was a young teenager my aunt gave me a Leif Garrett long playing record. Of course she meant well but I don’t think I even took the record out of the plastic wrapping. Today the BBC reported that a German radio host is accused of comparing Korean performing artists BTS to the Coronavirus….

Glitz and Glamour

Should “trans” and “queer” roles in cinema and TV be limited only to “trans” and “queer” actors?

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

The notion of actors only of a certain sexual orientation or who “identify” with a certain gender being qualified to play characters in cinema or TV that are of the same sexual orientation or gender identification is the subject of much debate. Actually, thinking again, for many in that community, the entitlement is practically a…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Driving Donald Trump’s supporters underground is a dangerous thing

January 11, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

In the last few days since the infamy of the Washington DC “insurrection” purportedly fuelled by US President Donald Trump’s messages sent over Twitter and other social media platforms, I’ve been seeing social media posts and various articles on news sites and blogs describing its aftermath. The interesting ones I’ve noted are those to do…

Politics, Society

Highlighting that Christine Dacera was in an all-male party is NOT “victim blaming”

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

In overthinking the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Philippine Airlines flight attendant Christine Dacera, Inquirer columnist Hyacinth Tagupa in her piece “It’s a tragedy, but…” inadvertently backward-reasons her “analysis” from prescribed woke dogma and, as a result, arrives at a flawed thesis on the matter. Tagupa’s brainwave is encapsulated in this single paragraph of…

Crime, Society

The Right Way to “Cancel” Culture… and maybe Disease

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 ChinoF 21 Comments

“Cancel Culture” is one of the funny buzzwords of these days. It’s all about boycotting a celebrity when they say something “offensive.” It can be loosely appplied to Wokes’ destruction of statues and staging of massive riots. Perhaps even this thing where children “stand up to parents” over the ABS-CBN closure. But they don’t know…

Culture