On February 9, award-winning director Erik Matti called out TV host Toni Gonzaga after sharing an Instagram story from her supporters with the word Unbothered.
Matti took to his social media platforms, Instagram and facebook, to share his thoughts about Gonzaga’s social media post.
He initially made the disclaimer that everyone has a right to their political stance. Matti then proceeded to present an analogy connecting the history of Marcoses to Adolf Hitler.
His comparison between the historical figures criticized people who supported the Marcoses, especially with former Senator Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr.’s bid for the presidency.
After that, he called out Gonzaga’s insensitive response and wrote, “I cannot fathom anyone, who [has] access to the same historical facts from our books and Youtube like everyone else, can still have the gall to hold their head so high to the point of being so arrogant and obnoxious to brush away critics and dissenters even acknowledging and flaunting it with such an insensitive hashtag.
“That is just incomprehensible.”
He then clarified that those who expressed support to any political candidate are between the person and their conscience.
He then criticized Gonzaga’s online behavior, “To give your support to any political candidate whether or not out of affinity, blood or loyalty is between you and your conscience. You can do whatever you want with your celebrity power and God’s guidance because this is a free world, after all. But to be brazen, arrogant and snooty makes all of it despicable, disgusting and really crude.”
Matti then proceeded to ask Marcos supporters what makes them so ’emboldened’ that they do not acknowledge the family’s proven history of plunder and corruption.
“What makes you people so emboldened, seeming almost like untouchables, to never have the decency to acknowledge with humble bowed heads and with Almighty God as your witness, that you are on the side of what history had unmistakably and irrefutably proven to have been part of the plunder and corruption of the Philippines then and now?”
He then ended the post stating, ‘impunity and apathy run so deep in all of us’ with the hashtag bothered.
Earlier, netizens and celebrities criticized Gonzaga for hosting the BBM-Sara proclamation rally. They dubbed Gonzaga the new Mocha Uson, a known fake news peddler.
