Ben Affleck Defends the Philippines in TV Show: “You criticize the people doing it not the Philippines”

Posted on October 5, 2014

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In a “Gone Tour” promotion Ben Affleck defends the Philippines, saying: “You criticize the people who’re doing it not the Philippines. The Filipinos on the street have nothing to do with that.”

 

Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck

 

This is in response to one of the comments of a panelist who said:

“If Filipinos were capturing teenagers and sending them into white slavery…”

To which Ben Affleck replied:

“You criticize the people who’re doing it not the Philippines. The Filipinos on the street have nothing to do with that.”

Ben Affleck said this after a heated argument about ISIS and the Muslims, where the famous actor and director expressed his sentiment about racist comments from one of the panellists of the program.

Ben defended the Islam religion by saying that people should not generalize.

Watch the video below.