Let's talk about what Ateneo is comfortable being loud about.
They were vocal against Duterte's drug war. Their faculty and administration signed statements, held forums, gave interviews.
They positioned themselves as the moral conscience of the nation.
Now two of their own student-athletes are dead and Rene Baterbonia's mother flown to Manila from Agusan del Sur asking why nobody told her what kind of training her 19-year-old son was being put through.
Where is that same moral energy now? Where are the press conferences? Where is the institutional accountability they so readily demand from everyone else?
Moral outrage, apparently, is a luxury reserved for politics. Not for the boys they recruited from the provinces to win championships.
Thank you, Singapore 🇸🇬, for helping bring our stranded Filipino workers home from Saudi Arabia. Your compassion and willingness to open your evacuation flight to our kababayans will never be forgotten.
Maraming salamat for showing true friendship and humanity. 🇵🇭🫱🏻🫲🏼