Hypocrisy or Double Standards - PART 1

How do you define 'hypocrisy' and 'double standards'? They seem to be very similar. So to DuckDuckGo I went to look for what distinguishes one from the other. These are what netizens say about the two:

Hypocrisy is the practice of criticizing others for what they are doing but you're doing the same thing. Double standards occur when two or more groups are treated differently regarding the same thing or issue. It is when one group of people is allowed certain privileges or rights but the other group(s) is not accorded the same.

Hypocrisy is when you do the opposite of what you say. The act of double standard is when you judge as acceptable what one group does but judge as unacceptable when another group does the very same thing that the first group is doing.

A hypocrite contradicts what they say with their actions while someone who practices double standards unfairly applies in different ways to different people or groups a set of ethical or moral code or rules or principle, like when men are allowed to vote but women or blacks or minorities are not.

If the above definitions from netizens aren't clear enough, perhaps the following memes, tweets, other social media posts, & political cartoons would bring it home for you.

They do care. Nakakahiya naman yung mga street kids. TSK TSK TSK!

Mr. Gascon, read up so you know what you haven't been doing.

Because of the above, netizens created memes like this:

Ang taas pa ng mga salaries nila. Mag-asawa ba yan o mag-ama? May nepotism sa CHR? Who is Cecilia Gascon?:

In the words of Sir Winston Churchill:

Ito yung card madalas gamitin ng ilang bloggers, some politicians and some mainstream media people pretending to be non-partisan. They know who they are.

Some politicians flood the media with the words EJK. However, they don't mention the ones that happened during the two administrations helmed by people from a political party of a particular color.

...yet he wants the government to be open to dissent but he can't handle it himself.

Are these two saying they're NUMBER 1?

Who or which act is more offensive? You be the judge. Compare:

In response to Hilbay:

Whenever I see Hilbay on TV or on the internet the word "HYPOCRITE" come rushing to my head in BIG BOLD LETTERS. Can't help myself. I can't see myself attending a class he teaches. I wouldn't be able to focus 'coz I'd be rolling my eyes up unceasingly.

Di daw safe ang mga media people under Du30. Di rin pala safe ang mga journalists under the LPs.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the hypocrite of them all?

For 6 years PNoy & his minions couldn't solve the MRT & traffic problems & yet crybabies now demand Duterte to fix them right away.

Totoo ba ito o chizmax lang? Just asking.

The Yellows insist that Du30 sign a waiver to open his bank accounts but look who else didn't sign a waiver:

They even defended PNoy in his refusal to sign a waiver but now they're singing a different tune. HAHAHAH!

If I may suggest this should be the song that the LPs & yellows should be singing:

TITLE of the SONG: "The Great PRETENDER"

By the way "The Dog" allegedly signed one but he is rumored to have a foreign partner. For that waiver to be enforceable or of any use to investigators, his foreign partner must also sign a waiver to open his bank accounts.

#hypocrisy #doublestandards