Candy's rotten taste
Wow! What a way to get noticed.
Seemingly, this Candy Pangilinan knows that Igorots will react and notice her when she says, “Tao po ako. Hindi po ako Igorot” ( I am a human being. I am not an Igorot) during her show here at SM Baguio, May 9.
Cheap shot.
With her obvious intention of sounding ignorant, she nonetheless commits discriminatory acts and violates equality rights by strongly implying that Igorots are not human beings.
Stop it, Ms Pangilinan. Being a UP alumna, you disgrace your alma mater, the University of the Philippines, a prestigious institution which is known for its academic and intellectual excellence and strong positions against injustice. As well, you disgrace noted and distinguished UP graduates and where, among them are a number of Igorots. You may have come across some of them when you were studying Theater Arts in UP. Though, even if not because Igorots are not that much inclined to study theater arts, there is the tendency for you to meet this member of the human species in your college days. And if you haven’t, you must have led a miserable school life not to know the existence of an Igorot. Besides, being in the entertainment industry, you already have come across Igorot actors, one of whom was the late Starstruck winner, Marky Cielo. May he rest in peace.
And you say you’re joking? Ha ha! Making miserable , stupid and ignorant remarks on stage to catch attention? You think you’re being funny?
Making tribal slurs is downright discriminatory where it violates the basic human rights of people to their equality rights, whether such is said jokingly or intentionally. You think you’re human and the Igorot is not? You espouse a hostile and dangerous environment where humans will think ill or be wary of another just because one thinks one is not a human being. So who do you think Igorots are?
Coming here to Baguio which is largely populated by Igorots and saying such an off-hand, careless and stupid remark is a brazen and ill-mannered act to do. And before this piece gets longer, the best thing for you, Ms Candy Panglinan to do, is to give a public apology before some law –abiding Igorots would ever think of suing you to court, or calling on the anitos to give you a piece of their advice.
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Transferred from Travels and Events ( http://travelprints.blogspot.com) May 12, 2009.
2 comments:
for what Candy said, I will not vote for Kiko, unless Kiko scolds her in public. I don't care if they are relatives hehehe
nandi ayahao
Hi Nandi
Elections is just a few months away. A good comment to float Kiko's name ha ha! Anyways, do join the discussion in the komedyante's blog. Click at the bottom of my Rotten Candy post.
Gina