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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
The #BANSITALA hashtag targeting the daughter of a former pro-coup supporter who is debuting as a girl group member in South Korea could be a moment of reckoning for conservative elites. The scandal, raging mostly on Twitter, is a minuscule version of the bind that the groups which now hold the power in Thailand will have to face up, sooner or later. It’s not just that the past, which they believed was perfect, is coming back to haunt and make their future tense, but they’re actually running into a dilemma where they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. This was inevitable since they…