Duterte Finger (Buzzwords for July 2011 By Gilbert Tan)

Buzzwords for July 2011
By Gilbert Yap Tan*

*Gilbert Yap Tan is a university professor and blogger based in SocCSKSarGen.

Improve your vocabulary! Find out the meaning of buzzwords and read the exciting examples using them, complete with pictures!

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• Civility – (noun) claiming and caring for one’s identity, needs and beliefs without degrading someone else’s in the process. – Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath (http://instituteforcivility.org/who-we-are/what-is-civility.aspx). (Adjective) Civil.
Use Civility in a sentence:

Theodore Te tweets:

Showing compassion for ppl abt to be demolished is totally independent from showing lack of civility. Wrong way of doing the right thing.

Guide question: How is being civil distinguished from being “plastik”?

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• Culture of Impunity – (noun) culture that promotes exemption from punishment or loss. (http://www.beedictionary.com/definition/impunity).

Use Culture of Impunity in a sentence:

“What we have in Davao is a manifestation of the Culture of Impunity prevailing in the country. This is a culture of impunity that manifests itself with a driver bribing, with a daylight roadside massacre, and it manifests itself in the Duterte versus Sheriff bout.” (http://propinoy.net/2011/07/02/davao-mayor-sara-duterte-strikes-sheriff-abe-andres/).

Guide question: How is the Sara-sheriff bout similar to the Maguindanao massacre in view of the culture of impunity?

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• Violence – (noun) a : exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse (as in warfare effecting illegal entry into a house) b : an instance of violent treatment or procedure c : intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force

b : vehement feeling or expression : fervor; also : an instance of such action or feeling (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence). (Adjective) Violent.

Use Violence in a sentence:

“As a Dabawenyo, I felt deeply embarrassed that our city mayor could descend to that level of baseness. Whether the man who got punched (several times) by the mayor was out of line for his actions or not, violence is never an acceptable response. Especially not from the highest-ranking city official.” – Blogie Robillo(http://www.angdabawenyo.com/2011/07/01/when-is-violence-ever-an-answer).

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984

SARA\’S SUCKER PUNCH SPECIAL!>“Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country.” – Krishnamurti, philosopher

Guide question: Aside from war, in what other instances is violence justifiable?

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• Warlord – (n): someone who has achieved power by behaving in an aggressive and violent way. (http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/warlord)

Use Warlord in a sentence:

“But the most disturbing aspect of the incident is that a dynasty of provincial warlords has wantonly declared themselves beyond the reach of the rule of law of the land. This cannot be tolerated, whether or not the assault was carried out in the name of the poor. What was assaulted was not just the sheriff. It is the primacy of national legal authority that is at stake in this incident.” – Amando Doronila (http://opinion.inquirer.net/7367/warlord-thuggery-in-davao)

Guide question: Which comes first: a warlord or a political dynasty?

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• Du-dirtee (variant: Dudirty) – (slang) A combination of Duterte and Dirty finger to refer to the hand gesture made by Rodrigo and Paolo Duterte.

ASSIGNMENT: Use Du-dirtee in a sentence.

Guide question: Can using the “dirty finger” hand gesture be considered as “freedom of expression”? (http://ph.news.yahoo.com/dirty-finger-freedom-expression-duterte-171314734.html)

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• Tunay na lalaki — Ang problema, naaayos lang sa sapakan. ’Yan ang pilosopiya ng tunay na lalaki. (http://www.spot.ph/featured/48747/sara-duterte-tunay-na-lalake/)

TUNAY NA LALAKI

Use Tunay na lalaki in a sentence:

Yan ang tunay na lalaki. Kahit may “Inday” pa sa pangalan niya. (http://www.spot.ph/featured/48747/sara-duterte-tunay-na-lalake/)

Guide question: Ang babae ba, pwede maging tunay na lalaki?

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• National Concern – a matter that is important to a nation/country.

Use National Concern in a sentence:

“The Duterte incident is not a matter of local authority, as Sara and the citizens of Davao claim. It is a matter of national concern when a public official believes that she has the right to take out a metaphorical gun and punish somebody without the benefit of court or counsel. Sara Duterte’s assault was not an instance when a champion stands between right and wrong. It was an instance when an insulted ego finds itself unable to lash out. She said it herself. She was angry at the sheriff for dismissing her authority. She had asked for only two hours.” – Patricia Evangelista  (http://opinion.inquirer.net/7463/the-law-of-sara-duterte)

“In many online public forums, the idea is being floated that only the citizens of Davao City have the right to judge their mayor’s action. This is absurd; is the city a separate republic, or a distinct moral universe of its own? The supporters of Davao City’s status as one of the country’s leading cities must learn to judge it not by a unique set of standards, but by values common to all—flood victim and squatter, mayor and sheriff, alike.” – Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial (http://opinion.inquirer.net/7228/%E2%80%98inday-sarado%E2%80%99)