Ben D. Kritz
Ben D. Kritz

A Facebook post by ABS-CBN a few days ago turned out to be unintentionally hilarious, in a schadenfreude sort of way: In connection with the fourth anniversary of the death of former President Cory Aquino, the network posted the innocent question, “Cory Aquino. Democracy icon. How do you +Remember Cory Aquino?” and suddenly found itself assailed by angry responses—nearly 900 of them as of Thursday afternoon, and as far as I could determine from reading through the extensive comment thread (a task that took nearly an hour), not a single one of them having anything complimentary to say about the Philippines’ “democracy icon.’’

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