As bad days go, this week was a particularly lousy one for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). On Monday, Feb. 22, a Dumaguete court issued arrest warrants against five PDEA agents for indirect contempt over a fake buy-bust operation they had foisted on the court last year. On June 28, 2020, PDEA agents arrested five persons they accused of selling drugs in Dumaguete, only for CCTV footage to show that the law enforcers had picked
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out in bold relief the inequalities that set nations and social classes apart. By the sheer magnitude of resources at their disposal, a few will endure this plague better than others. The vast majority, in contrast, are not only less equipped to adapt; they will also find themselves increasingly excluded from the institutional circuits that make survival possible. To the inequality that has traditionally characterized social existence in hierarchical societies, we may now add the more cruel fact of social exclusion. Indeed, writes the German theorist Niklas Luhmann, such exclusion — more than inequality itself —
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