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The Price Of Privilege. More and more, given President #Duterte and his practice of double speak, one finds that what surfaces is thoughtless public opinion, the kind that reveals a blindness to privilege and class difference, a display of our own predisposition to stand against one injustice but not another: no to the poor being killed in the drug war, but yes to the poor being left without homes and certainly they don't deserve access to water and electricity!; use oppression and inequality as subjects of our creative work, but never take a stand against either when it is most critical to real people's lives; speak of helping and empowering the poor, but refuse to support them when they act collectively towards self-determination, without us, with just their experience of having been disenfranchised for far too long by government policy, with rules they have tried to play by, but this a system that will not let them win. We like to talk about independence and freedom, about rebelling against rules and fighting for our rights. This is no different from the urban poor taking over idle housing no one else wants. Yet it seems we do not allow the poor to demand for what we ourselves would fight for, and one wonders if we realize that we're insisting that they deserve less, even as they already have the least. #ClassCrisis #ClassViolence #ClassPolitics #Privilege #blindness #elitism #Philippines #Pilipinas #OccupyPabahay #OccupyPandi #KadamayAko #Kadamay #housingPH #shelterPH 📷taken at Pandi Bulacan, Mar 2017.