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“I attended a BLM protest” is going to be the new “I have a black friend” for white ppl. Calling it now.
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I read it so you don’t have to. It’s a bunch of middle-aged Asian Americans who can’t over what some 7-year old white kid said to them when they were in first grade and now they have to spend the rest of their lives reconciling how much they wished they were white.
0/5 stars.
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Filipinos, esp Fil-Ams, should be very aware of the miseducation of the Philippines that has affected our upbringing and even the way we bring up the next generation ourselves. /1
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Now that Brooklyn Dad has been exposed as a Democrat op, I can’t wait to not be surprised to find out Charlotte Clymer is too.
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@kibblesmith
I feel like this should have been chosen for the horror remake instead of Winnie the Pooh.
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This is a thread for anyone looking to read more books about Asians by Asian authors. Crazy Rich Asians isn't the only option out there. It's just the one getting all the hype right now. /1
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Starting off the new year by finally muting her.
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THIS SATURDAY IN BALTIMORE AT 1 PM. Join
@baltoppa
’s march and car caravan to express our outrage and heartbreak at the failure to indict the Louisville police responsible for shooting Breonna Taylor to death.
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I hate to dunk on this guy bc I really enjoy his fashion posts. But most Asians can’t even tell what kind of Asian other Asians are. How the hell would we know who to be racist towards?
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I can’t believe it but I’m only now realizing that liberals do not understand the terms “anti-fascist” and “anti-imperialist.” They only understand pro-Biden and pro-Trump or Democrats = good guys/ Republicans = bad guys. Everything else is just babble.
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Name an Asian American blue check who isn’t a white worshipper. I’ll wait.
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A friend of mine who lives in CA just informed me that she and 8 people hung out together and now all of them have tested positive for covid. All of them were fully vaccinated.
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Most Filipino Americans do not know their own or their larger collective history. That’s why Dawn Mabalon’s work researching and advocating for the dissemination of Filipino American history in Stockton and her research on Larry Itliong is invaluable.
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We should talk about violence against Asian people no matter who commits the crime. Accusing us of spreading hate by....talking about hate crimes committed against us sounds like you're apologizing to our attackers.
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He always acts like he’s a toddler. It’s so embarrassing.
Ke Huy Quan surprising Harrison Ford at the ‘INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY’ premiere.
Read our ‘Dial of Destiny’ review:
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Look what arrived today from
@FLP_books
. Araling Aktibista (ARAK) is part of the required study for activists in the Filipino revolutionary movement. Can’t wait to start reading it!
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My aunt died of Covid at noon today. Lungs filled up with fluid. It only took 8 days from positive diagnosis to death. Nobody was allowed in the ICU. Nurse held up a phone so we could say goodbye to her via FaceTime. Arranging a Zoom funeral now.
Take this pandemic seriously.
My oldest auntie, my 89 year old Auntie Milagros, was brought to the ER in Las Vegas this morning after testing positive for covid-19 two weeks ago. She’s been in quarantine for 4 months but still caught it. She was placed on a ventilator and I’m told things aren’t looking good.
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Filipino history that was written by Americans is not the history that Filipinos should be taught. /9
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More than a decade ago, I made a concerted effort to read more books by Asian American authors in order to “decolonize my bookshelves.” Almost all of them write about the EXACT. SAME. THING.
It’s as if they’re all making the case to uphold the white western literary canon.
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After 400 years of Spanish rule that changed our religion from Muslim to Catholic, American imperialism took hold. The US called it "benevolent assimilation" but in truth it was a genocide of our ppl in which more than a million Filipinos died at the hands of US soldiers. /2
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I didn’t think people wrote essays like this anymore in 2022. I was wrong.
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Still too many Asian Americans on social media writing cringey privilege confessions and not enough condemnations of capitalism.
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So I learned that many people on Twitter believe in Asian physiognomy.
When are you going to publish your guides on how to distinguish Indonesians from Filipinos and Laotians from Vietnamese?
A lot of you are practicing a form of race science that you’re weirdly proud of.
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@nytimes
Credit where credit is due. This is a good move. Erase the debt accrued from all for-profit colleges. It’s a good start.
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The leftists’ demand for body cams was supposed to make cops look corrupt and abusive but every cop and viewer has agreed that it’s worked in their favor instead.
@DonutOperator
Even binge watching body cam footage on YouTube should red pill a lot of people about the difficulty of being a cop.
Even the people cops are trying to give breaks to, they talk themselves into getting arrested. It's just bizarre stuff that I want no part of.
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There’s 30 essays in this book and they are all the same shit.
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My takeaway after years of reading essays like these — Asian Americans will have to come to terms with the fact that they did this to themselves and just take the L. White people did not do this to them.
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English should not be the only language taught in Filipino schools. Loss of language will affect Filipino identity negatively. /10
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It is bc of this miseducation that many of our Filipino parents find little fault with the US and seem almost grateful to have been colonized. The real history was wiped clean.
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When are life insurance companies going to start running ads for parents to insure their kids before going back to school? Disaster capitalism is never late.
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If Tagalog is the fourth most-spoken language in the country and fifth most-spoken in North America, why is it so damn hard to find classes or tutors? It’s not even on Duolingo. You’d think it would be offered at every high school and college by now.
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Why did the US do this? Easy answer. Colonial exploitation. The US wanted to get their hands on the sugarcane. They also wanted to expand their consumer base by forcing millions of Filipinos to purchase US goods. It was a one-way economic relationship. /5
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Special thanks to
@anthonyocampo
. His book, The Latinos of Asia, has been mindblowing to me in many ways. /7
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The amount of Asian people who’ve unfollowed me once I started posting more about anti-Asian racism as a result of the coronavirus is revealing. I’m pretty sure you guys are the ones who reported me and got me suspended yesterday.
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I finally heard from my family in the Philippines. They’re safe, thankfully. But so many aren’t and had to evacuate their ruined homes. We keep talking about climate change like it’s in some far-off future but that’s wrong — it’s already here.
Declare a climate emergency now.
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Asian liberals need therapy and thousands of public awareness support tweets when someone pronounces their name wrong. But when Asian elders are assaulted and murdered daily, it’s “guys we need more book clubs and diversity seminars!”
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It’s not the wokeness. It’s that Mindy Kaling doesn’t know how to write South Asian characters that aren’t dorky losers who are desperate for white acceptance. I have never figured out who her audience even is.
HBO’s wokified Scooby Doo remake has an 8% audience score:
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I met
@rubyibarra
, one of the strongest voices for Filipino women all over the world. Thanks to
@TheoGonzalves
for curating the Smithsonian FolkLife Festival. Thanks to
@PAFCdc
for organizing the dinner for Ruby! And hella thanks to Ruby for her music and activism. ISANG BAGSAK!
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Just a few examples of what Asian women face when they speak their minds about misogyny in Asian online spaces.
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After this came what Filipino historian Renato Constantino described as the "miseducation" of the Filipino ppl. The US created a public school system in the Philippines and recruited legions of American teachers to teach Filipino children US history, politics and culture. /3
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Simu Liu is such a loser. He’s never been in a good movie, can’t act, and isn’t a martial artist. He does nothing but complain. Should probably just keep his mouth shut to avoid further embarrassing himself.
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My roommate in college was Vietnamese. I’m Filipino. Both of us were constantly mistaken as Korean…by Koreans.
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Merry Christmas! I am finally starting that Asian American book club I’ve been talking about for months. Get ready to decolonize your bookshelves in 2019.
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In 2019, can people please stop talking about millennials like we’re all 19 yrs old? Most millennials are in their 30s now.
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@saitomri
This is what I wish the US looked like. I’d actually go out to eat sometimes if it did.
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Shut up. Just shut up. For the love of God, please shut up.
People seem to love
#Oppenheimer
but I'll just say it: I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script—Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans—had no voice.
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Looks terrible.
Fuck yeah! JOY RIDE. I am absolutely here for the Asian American women-led raunchy comedy.
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This is why it is so important to support educational reform in the Philippines. We need to undo our miseducation. /8
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Before my mom passed away 9 yrs ago, she set up a scholarship fund in the Philippines for aspiring nurses. Today I learned that all 9 young women who received aid have graduated from nursing school and were successfully placed in FT nursing positions in my mother’s home country.
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This had a direct effect on the underdevelopment of the Philippines that we still see to his day. /6
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The role of Filipino and Fil-Am pop culture in the decolonization process is minimal. The images and representations of our culture in the media still reflects a colonized mentality. /11
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The menswear guy is whining again.
For the last time, Asians in America get along with each other just fine. I don’t know why he wants to insist we don’t.
And why doesn’t he just post a picture of himself one time if he’s annoyed at all the white-face accusations.
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Academically gifted Filipino men were sent to college in the US. In exchange, they were required to return to the Philippines and serve as teachers, engineers and civil servants. /4
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Here’s the synopsis from the inside flap. If you’re looking for a good hate-read this summer, look no further!
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LMAO this is the woman who got famous for basically saying, "let's normalize violence against Asians.”
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I found the Joker stairs. Take the 4 train up to 167th Street in the Bronx. Photo:
@OneMillicentCho
and
@cogitatotomato
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The Asian woman who wrote this enraging essay about her infatuation with all things white and hatred of all things Chinese is now a screenwriter in LA.
Hate-read of the year. And I thought Minor Feelings was bad.
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Hate-read of the year. And I thought Minor Feelings was bad.
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Since it's Filipino American History Month, I'm going to post a lot of reviews of books by Filipino authors. This one by
@ejrdavid
explores the most insidious psychological consequence of our historical and contemporary experiences -- colonial mentality/ internalized oppression.
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Tried for a second time to watch Everything Everywhere All At Once and still didn’t like it. I think my biggest issue with Asian American art is that I do not like Asian American culture. It’s not developing organically over time. It feels forced, desperate and rushed. /1
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The exception is in the work of younger Filipino and Fil-Am journalists and writers who are beginning to reflect a more critical perspective. /12
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Yeah, why would we be offended at being mistaken for another Asian ethnicity?
Why should I be offended by being mistaken for Korean or Chinese or Vietnamese or Cambodian?
The woke race science shit is getting hella weird. All i have to add is that i grew up korean in the 626 and have been mistaken for literally every asian ethnicity by other asians. it's not a big deal. really gotta ask WHY it's so important to be able to tell?
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Red-tagging in the Philippines is red-baiting. Under Duterte, it is a huge govt project and uses public funds to criminalize activists. I stand in solidarity with Filipinos who are being silenced in our fight against corruption and oppression.
#YesToRedLipstick
#NoToRedTagging
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Marissa Aroy is developing a documentary about The Philippine-American War. I can’t stress enough how important it is to educate others on the atrocities and injustices of that war. Our history is ignored in textbooks and classrooms.
Thank you Marissa for your important work!
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If you’re in the US, today is the first day of Filipino American History Month (FAHM). We Fil-Ams live in the very country that has pillaged and corrupted our homeland for more than a century. What’s going on in the Philippines is a huge part of our past, present and future.
Instead of continuing to wage a war it just cannot end—and in a hostage situation, red-tagging activists—the government should be addressing the ROOTS of armed conflict.
Land redistribution for farmers. Dignified wages. National industrialization. Indigenous self-determination.
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The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be an activist. Today is the Global Day of Action to STOP THE KILLINGS in the Philippines. Hands-off activists! Protect our human rights defenders!
#StopTheKillingsPH
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My family in the Philippines (aunts, uncles and cousins) all attended the noise barrage outside the ABS-CBN broadcasting center to protest its shutdown and defend press freedom last night.
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I feel for the family of Michelle Go today. I tried watching the news to see if they’d say anything about her and…nothing. My offline friends haven’t even heard of the incident.
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Happy 1st day of Filipino American History Month! I spent all day yesterday at the annual Archdiocese of Filipino Saints Two Saints Fiesta.
Check out this traditional Igorot dance! 🔥🇵🇭
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I’ve never supported a presidential candidate like I did Bernie Sanders. I’ve never been so invested and then upset to see a candidate dropout. It took the entire Democratic Party and mainstream media to take him down though. That says a lot. We will continue his fight. 🌹
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I know I’m late but I finally listened to this episode on how the right-wing harnessed country music. It’s one of their best and I also recommend reading Aaron Leonard’s book Folk Singers and the Bureau, which is about how the FBI repressed left-wing folk music and culture.
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This happened in NYC on Wednesday. Asians, especially the elderly, are being targeted and it’s time to stop viewing these attacks as isolated incidents.
Another attack. A Filipino man was slashed from ear to ear on the subway. Asian American elders are being targeted. These are not isolated incidents. We need to speak up and raise awareness that this has been happening and NEEDS TO STOP.
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This, exactly this. DEI Hollywood types are not creatives, movie lovers or filmmakers. They don’t watch anything and they only know YA stories from the 2000s. They should not be listened to.
it occurs to me that people who preach values of inclusivity and diversity also just…don’t watch movies from other places. I don’t think that’s ironic or hypercritical or anything. but it’s just…odd.
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After winning 7 awards last night, EEAAO fans still need to ways to feel like victims at the Oscars.
Can’t believe Stephanie Hsu, who played a depressed immigrant daughter traveling throughout the universe to find a version of her mother who loved her, lost to an irs agent
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I put up a “fuck Joe Biden and Kamala Harris” post on Instagram and lost 175 followers today. If liberals can’t handle criticism of Biden now that he’s pretty much won the election, how the hell were they planning to hold him accountable or “pull him left”?
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The Philippines was never truly independent. In 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo sold out the revolution and the Filipino people to the U.S. for P400,000. The U.S. granted us our fake independence on July 4th to establish their colonial grip of Philippine society that continues today.
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I binged all of Beef in two days. That is some quality watching, making it an Asian American rarity. Highly recommend.
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Words will never be enough to describe how much I cannot stand Eileen Huang.
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"Where is the Asian Black Panther?!"
"My culture is not your prom dress!"
"Scarlett Johansson!"
"I hope my white boyfriend doesn't like other Asian girls!"
"I cried about my lunch in 5th grade."
Asian American Movement 1973: No war in Vietnam! Reunify China! Reunify Korea! Nukes out of Japan! End Imperialism! Support Communism! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
Asian Americkans 2020: War on China! North Korea Bad! Vietnam=Authoritarian! Stan Awkwafina! Winnie The Pooh! Serve our country! 🇺🇸💁🏻♀️💁🏻♂️
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Bleeding IG followers bc of all the stuff I’m posting in my stories. I lost 300 since Friday. BYE BITCHES I HATED YOU ANYWAY
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@Rusty2954
Country music after 2001 really did a number on conservative culture. 🤮 Bring back Reagan-era aesthetics.
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Filipino culture is having a super long name. My full name is Eliza Marie Reynon Rabino Estebal Romero. Doesn't even include my confirmation name, Ignacia.
#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
#FAHM2018
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The Jakarta Method is the best book I’ve read this year and I’ve been recommending it to everyone. I read it back to back with The Darker Nations and thought the two books complemented each other well. Hoping to do a podcast episode on this topic soon!
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It is opportune then that an edition of “America Is in the Heart” is being issued by Penguin Classics in 2019, in an era when issues of race, migration, and labor remain more fraught than ever.
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