Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
I've met enough people from the Philippines that I hope they don't go through too much shit. Like most southeast Asians there some of the nicest folks I've ever met (well, not the weird semi-fascist ones). Working towards a revolution somewhere would be a helluva lot better than rotting here in the imperial core, though.