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Ok i said I'm done but it's 5am, I can't sleep, & I just need to get this off my chest. U may not sympathize but I'm just gon tweet abt why it hurts for my own 
Every day in the US, "Filipinx" is written & spoken as a word 2 specifically mean "Fil-Am". Even by non FilAms (1/x)
Every day in the US, "Filipinx" is written & spoken as a word 2 specifically mean "Fil-Am". Even by non FilAms (1/x)
By that, we mean we acknowledge (even Ethnic Studies as a discipline acknowledges) that term specifically is used to talk about us, brown ppl in America, in EVERYDAY language. Not people in the PH. Us. A community that's been here 4 CENTURIES. When that's not understood.. (2/x)
When even that isn't understood - that "Filipinx" denotes Fil-Ams in their whole history, in literal everyday usage - & this shit is viciously attacked as "Westernizing" you all... PHs attack us for something we're not doing. Then when we read yall's jokes... (3/x)
Despite the lack of intent, for someone to read "Filipinx is so stupid"/"Wtf is a Filipinx bitch I'll kill u" takes a lotta mental work. People calling a term that is heard & use EVERYDAY to define us, stupid. A word used in the everyday to refer to us, ridiculed. (4/x)
Maybe it's just me, but havin to hold that but also do the work of "okay but I know it's not understood for what it is..... That's not the intent....."
And also the whole weight of "this term denotes my brownness in this racist fucking society" is jus TOO MUCH (5/x)
And also the whole weight of "this term denotes my brownness in this racist fucking society" is jus TOO MUCH (5/x)
We're constantly explaining n never being treated as worthy of being listened to. We're just holding all this shit + hearing the identity widely used in the everyday being ridiculed knowing the ppl saying this ALSO let's be real DONT identify with us YET ridicule it (6/x)
& here's the part that I'm sure might be hard to sympathize with or even understand but saying this for myself. When u hear, read, write, speak the term "Filipinx" in EVERYDAY life from like everyone it really does hurt seeing it ridiculed cuz it's not a word lang for us.
How can I explain this as simply as possible? How it's not a word lang for us?
Like... take ur snarky remark about Filipinx being "stupid". imagine switching 'filipinx' with 'latinx' or 'chinoy' n then sayin ur remark to a Latinx or Chinoy person. That's how it hits (8/x)
Like... take ur snarky remark about Filipinx being "stupid". imagine switching 'filipinx' with 'latinx' or 'chinoy' n then sayin ur remark to a Latinx or Chinoy person. That's how it hits (8/x)
Lastly, "ano to Filipino sphinx" is so annoying.
Its FIL-ih-pin-EX. Ya, with an accent. Yall agree it's not word in any PH language. Its a Western-situated identity.
Kung magtatalk-shit pa rin kayo @ least pronounce us properly charut n if it's too ugly for u don't talk abt it
Its FIL-ih-pin-EX. Ya, with an accent. Yall agree it's not word in any PH language. Its a Western-situated identity.
Kung magtatalk-shit pa rin kayo @ least pronounce us properly charut n if it's too ugly for u don't talk abt it
