One of the worst mistakes we can make is to believe the stereotype of the unintelligent, uneducated voter. Lahat naman tayo nag-iisip. If we want any chance of changing people’s views, we have to engage with them on equal footing. https://twitter.com/mrsunlawyer/status/1335055211723776001

Listen to and learn their very much valid thoughts, sentiments, motivations.

Honestly it’s the people criticising this thread who come off as implicitly elitist to me—for making the assumption that a kasambahay can’t have an intelligent exchange with their employer.

Some people who claim to speak for, end up speaking over. May unspoken dynamic placing themself above the other.

For all the talk na wala naman sa Twitter ang tunay na laban. There can’t just be one right way of doing it—where else do we start, if not with conversations?

perhaps criticism should be directed at the systemic, institutional, historical circumstances that make it so there are kasambahays in the first place. But this single convo couldn’t and wasn’t meant to fix that, was it?

In the meantime, within this problematic reality we must all live in and contend with, don’t deny kasambahays their agency by assuming they can’t take part in intelligent and insightful political discourse. That’s the very point of the thread, isn’t it