Tag: racism

Black skin is beautiful too according to Pinoy Big Brother star Bianca Gonzalez

May 6, 2023 benign0 1 Comment

As of yesterday, the 5th of May 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over — or so repeatedly declares the World Health Organisation. News outlets over the last 24 hours echoed the words of W.H.O. director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who announced “It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global…

Business, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Accepting “Racism,” Rejecting Racial Prejudice and the Equalitarian Dogma

August 19, 2022February 25, 2025 ChinoF 11 Comments

The part up to “prejudice” is the title of a chapter in Simon Webb’s book The Equalitarian Dogma. I wrote earlier that Webb convinced me to drop the idea that race is a social construct and accept that it has biological basis. However, it does not mean that it should lead to racial prejudice; believing…

Culture, History, Society

Racist Yellowtards flipping over Mandarin-language Chinese News TV (CNTV) airing on ABS-CBN

April 15, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

Today’s Yellowtard outrage fad surrounds an agreement between the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) and the firm Horizon of the Sun Communications, Incorporated which produces the iconic lifestyle show Chinatown TV to broadcast Chinese News TV (CNTV). CNTV has been airing nightly with news content delivered in Mandarin since 2017 and its audience traditionally consists of…

Media, 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

Catholic churches should be demolished because pagan people’s lives ALSO matter

June 10, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

While people are in the business of tearing down monuments to slave traders and brutal colonisers, why not go further and turn people’s ires on Roman Catholic Church buildings and statues? After all, the Catholic Church has as blood-soaked a history as any other global imperial empire. The crucifix, for example, was a potent symbol…

History, Religion

Europe is erasing its history because Big Brother is watching

June 10, 2020June 12, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

Symbols of Western Europe’s irrevocable past as imperial powers are coming down as people take to the streets supposedly to protest racism and injustice. Historical symbols deemed “inappropriate” have become the targets of vandalism and removal petitions. In London, the statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has now been taken down from West India Quay….

History, Religion, Society

What’s the difference between a person who wants to change sex and a person who wants to change skin colour?

April 15, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Practically all the issues that contribute to the intractable weakness of the Philippine nation are not one-administration outcomes. They all date back in one form or another to inherent qualities of Philippine society that evolved over several centuries. Indeed, it so happens that the circus of the moment — the brouhaha surrounding an ad by…

Culture, Politics, Society

US rapper @KanyeWest’s comment referring to slavery as a choice applies to Filipinos who choose to be slaves too

May 3, 2018 Ilda 16 Comments

American rapper Kanye West’s latest controversial remarks have angered not just the usual Liberal-minded mob, but also his fellow African-Americans. After all, he wasn’t just showing his love for his “boy” American President Donald Trump, he was analysing black slavery – something some people think he is no authority on. During a recent interview on…

Culture, Society