Pink-bashed, trolled and trashed

SMARTING from being rebuked in an article labeling them as akin to fanatic, cultish believers that had turned viral — after it was reported and which got me banned in Facebook — the pink army of loyalists of Vice President and presidential candidate Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo are at it again. They pounced on me in practically all platforms, even in those that are inhabited by people from my university, mainly our students, whose rights I have fought for as we crafted a more liberal and progressive student handbook for them, in my capacity as president of the faculty association, where my term ended last month.

This is the irony of this election campaign. As a citizen and analyst, I have a right to comment on anyone running for public office. And yet, when I do so I earn the vitriolic ire even of people whose rights I have pushed for and protected, including even some of my faculty colleagues. And worse, even people I personally know, people I call friends because I thought they were, are not content with merely disagreeing with me, they even silently and approvingly watch as I am being savaged, some even actively participating in it.