Diahon wrote:Are you trying to say that the government doesn't support Duterte's redtagging campaign in the way they did for the drug war?
no, i'm asking if there is popular support for the redtagging duts is doing, as there obviously is for the drug warBoth are reprehensible campaigns that have led to thousands dead. Trying to argue that one is worse because of its body count is not a great idea
and that also isn't what i'm saying
i'm saying that popular support for extrajudicial killings carried out by the government can encourage or discourage further sprees of bloody murder
there obviously is or has been wide support for the drug war, whether or not the drug problem is as advertised -- not so much for the redtagging, given the obvious state of the communist left in this country
There is absolutely a lot of public support for the redtagging. The hundreds or thousands of activists killed during the last five years didn't just come from nowhere. Please read the links I sent you. Or widen your social media net so you can observe the sheer amount of folks (bots or otherwise) who have fallen for the decades of anticommunist propaganda fed to them.