Rights defenders slam Chinese media's monkey video

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The superpower may be different, but it is reading from the same racist script.  This was how progressive group Bayan Muna and human rights defenders characterized the slur perpetrated by state-backed China Daily, as groups strongly condemned the recent depiction of Filipinos as monkeys, calling it a “recycled imperialist tactic straight out of the American colonial playbook.” Former Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate slammed the offensive media content, which circulated amid renewed discussions on the Philippines’ 2016 Arbitral Award victory, as a “dangerous provocation” that strips away mutual respect among nations. “Reducing Filipinos to […]...

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