I am getting a lot of e-mail from people I’ve never heard from before about an apparent ethnic joke about Filipino medical professionals ["Can I check those diplomas because I want to make sure that they're not from some med school in the Philippines?"] on the shlocky ABC show, “Desperate Houswives.”. . . Some Filipinos have seen fit to dismiss my ethnic heritage entirely and consider me “white” because of my politics and past criticism of the Philippines’ reckless decision to pay ransom for hostages taken by jihadis. Now, after a stupid TV show insults Filipinos, they expect me to jump on the protest bandwagon with them automatically in ethnic solidarity.
Question: Where were you when far worse Filipino insults were being leveled? Just wondering.