Desperate Pinoys
There is another hot item raging over the internet. This time, it’s a punchline in the highly popular TV series, Desperate Housewives. There is even an online petition demanding that ABC issue an apology and edit the show to remove the punchline in question. Demanding an apology is one but demanding that the supposedly offensive portion be removed is another. As of now, there are close to 100,000 signatures gathered already but this should give us pause. As somebody commented in Lester Cavestany’s blog about the same incident, that Pinoys are overly-reacting to this episode but not in our own home-grown racism by giving as an example a very popular comedian’s take on Indian music but nobody seems to be demanding an apology from our fellow Pinoys. At some point or another and in some context, we are all guilty of the same offense, it’s time that we look within ourselves and grow up.
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