Desperate Housewives and Filipinos as Moral Beacons Update

I have many thoughts on this issue. As a primer please read my earlier thoughts if you have not read them already.

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On a search for something else I ran into a piece written by William Esposito which pretty much said what I said only better.

In fact, in typical Filipino fashion, we’ve over-reacted once again over what can be considered as nothing more than one issue in long line of misinformed racial slurs that are commonplace on US television. I say over-reaction because why should we be so enraged and incensed over a one-line put-down in a TV fiction-drama when we can be so quiet about the high crimes that are being committed on our people by our own elite and political leaders?

Our over-reaction over Teri Hatcher’s line is no different from a Nazi SS officer in the early 1940s vehemently reacting to an allegation that German SS officers are aloof and snobbish when, in fact and in truth, they were, at the time, committing genocide on Jews and Eastern Europeans. Being aloof and snobbish should be the least of the concerns of one who is into genocide.

For the whole thing read here. He truly looks at this situation critically. He asks to define damage. He asks who is really doing damage? Why do we take a sitcom so seriously ? Half a billion dollars is a lot of money for one line in a sitcom. The Eagles are correct when their song says "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key." I don't feel so alone anymore.

Ed