He won in a landslide victory on an electoral promise to commit mass murder, are we surprised at him using the language of genocide.
It actually could be quite a lot worse than that. Remember, Duterte made the campaign promise to kill some hundred thousand criminals in his first six months. Right now, he's got 60,000 alleged addicts or dealers locked up. Now, far from me to say that a political opponent is a mass-murdering monster liable to keep the campaign promises that brought him to power, but... does anything about this situation scream "HE'S GOING TO MURDER TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS!!!" to anyone else?! This is a clear-cut and disgusting violation of human rights, a modern-day mass lynching of the kind one might expect from a fascist regime. But the worst of the bloodletting might still be to come. Maybe it's still preventable. Something should probably be done about it.
Old news. Sherlock Holmes was a coke addict. And that was in the mid-late 1800s.
Of course he was/is. But in 1800s London, cocaine addiction was understood as a malady of the rich or highly intelligent, which is why Doyle wrote him that way. Apparently it was commonplace in certain circles.
And don't forget about opium. We went to war with China Over that.
