Previously posted on my Facebook Page.
Before today’s election, Billie Eilish “…issued urgent message ahead of midterms.” Trudat, pop stars are influencers. But it is flawed to bite their “views” for credibility, of course. Billie is pretty much your 20-year old daughter with messages as well, could be more sensible. Uh huh. I mean, Madonna or Whoopi or the lady comedian got thoughts as well. Cool! Yet I’d rather enjoy “True Blue” again than listen to whatever Madonna Louise Ciccone blahblahs about politics. 🤨🗣👥
News: “Comedian suspended from Twitter after mocking Musk.” Shaming, mocking, insulting. The New Cool? I am old. I commenced my journalism and activism at a dangerous time. Dictatorship years. For sure, I wrote/said what I had to and most of those are burning trajectories versus the regime. We worked around law/rules of objectivity, reprimanded colleagues who didn’t observe common civility—even as we lambasted the status quo. These days? Tell me. 🗣👥🤨
Racism? There’s also discrimination. Prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Or whatever that’d up their “I’m better” quotient. Among Filipinos: Those who were born/raised in the U.S. or who are here longest annoyingly discriminate against “native” kababayans and newbies. They treat you like you are super clueless; correct you even in re history of the Philippines because they learned their stuff at U.C. Berkeley. 🤨🇵🇭🤪
President Biden weighs in on Twitter drama: “How do we expect kids to be able to understand what is at stake?” The issue is Social Media per se. Yet spectacular din ensued when Elon Musk bought the microblogging company. Fact is, before the takeover, Twitter has always been a tool for love vibe and hate pitch. Then Hate got louder. Promoted, pushed, politicized. Same with FB, TikTok etc etcetera. Reread Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” c. 1970. But I digress. 🗣👥🫂
After Phillies lost Game 4, two pairs of women fans got so upset that they had to let heat out by fighting in the bathroom. Slapping, hair pulling, wrestling on the floor. Cops weren’t called. No one was hurt as “hurt.” I remember my youth when, after a game, dudes took the ire out in the parking lot. Done. “Better” than unfriending a friend that you knew since grade school just because he/she voted this guy. Why not exhale the disagreement out in the parking lot? Or bathroom? 🤨🥊🤼♀️
Speak your mind vs. another faith, you are thrown into the fires of hell. Yet you are “cool” if you malign Christianity. The past is dug up to unearth Christians to shame. However, the insults are selective. For example, known devout Catholics/Christians J.R.R. Tolkien, Victor Hugo, Graham Greene, or Virginia Woolf are fine. Yet others, regardless of religion/irreligion yet sure candidates for “cancellation,” are spared. Such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.✝️☮️✝️
News says Arizona GOP Kari Lake mocks Paul Pelosi as he remains in ICU. Etc. Rival politicians on murkthrow is not new. Worse, when their minions slug it out. Few years ago, zealots wished that their “most-hated” man dies of Covid when he got infected. Current journalism is obsessed with flash over info so we get more Left/Right catfight than what News gave us then. And when “news” gets to social media, boom! Insults, shaming, and all kinds of rudeness rule. Sad. 🗣👥🫂
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