{"id":1572436,"date":"2022-07-26T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1572436"},"modified":"2022-07-26T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:51:57","slug":"stop-using-these-made-up-words-comic-con-slaps-woke-term-on-filipino-panel-gets-torched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-using-these-made-up-words-comic-con-slaps-woke-term-on-filipino-panel-gets-torched\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Using These Made Up Words\u2019: Comic Con Slaps Woke Term On Filipino Panel, Gets Torched"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-using-these-made-up-words-comic-con-slaps-woke-term-on-filipino-panel-gets-torched%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1572436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The San Diego Comic Con took some heat this week for slapping a woke label on a panel featuring Filipino \u201cVoices In Pop Culture\u201d: Filipinx.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the often-criticized term <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ive-never-met-a-latinx-van-jones-says-the-way-liberals-talk-is-just-weird\/\">Latinx<\/a> \u2014 which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/new-poll-shows-only-2-of-hispanics-use-term-latinx-many-find-it-offensive\/\">widely panned<\/a> by members of the very community it is used to describe \u2014 the convention\u2019s social media team\u2019s use of the term Filipinx appeared to be an attempt to be gender-inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Filipinx Voices in Pop Culture was a fun and educational all Filipinx panel discussing Filipinx influences behind your favorite media!\u201d @Comic_Con <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Comic_Con\/status\/1550269418953125888\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Filipinx Voices in Pop Culture was a fun and educational all Filipinx panel discussing Filipinx influences behind your favorite media! \ud83d\udcf8 Edward S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OOgLFKp2pf\">pic.twitter.com\/OOgLFKp2pf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego Comic-Con (@Comic_Con) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Comic_Con\/status\/1550269418953125888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But critics were not impressed, and quickly took to Twitter to hit back at Comic Con.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop using these made-up words to score woke virtue signaling points from people who never asked you to speak for them in the first place,\u201d @nknewsorg\u2019s social media editor Oliver Jia (@OliverJia1014)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverJia1014\/status\/1552020027398037504\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWant to know why white liberals push this \u2018Latinx\u2019 and \u2018Filipinx\u2019 s***? It\u2019s the \u2018white man\u2019s burden,&#8217;\u201d @ReviewsPossum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReviewsPossum\/status\/1552019029048676353\">added<\/a>. \u201cThey see you as a savage and feel the need to civilize you, so they colonize your language to make it more appealing to their own \u2018enlightened\u2019 sensibilities. It\u2019s racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are NOT going to start using Filipinx. nuh uh. no,\u201d @Chef033 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chef033\/status\/1552099331968221184\">declared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gringx are at it again,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KalebPrime\/status\/1551971962599182336\">came<\/a> from @KalebPrime.<\/p>\n<p>@RioXVII <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RioXVII\/status\/1551948739149021185\">added<\/a>, \u201cWe don\u2019t use Filipinx at all. this isn\u2019t a thing. It\u2019s always been gender neutral, which is why we use Kami = us, Tayo = we, Sila = they. Please stop trying to make it a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 diablos es Filipinx? \u00bfUna nueva enfermedad ven\u00e9rea?\u201d Agustin Laje <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AgustinLaje\/status\/1552084650570485760\">tweeted<\/a>. (Translation: What the devil is Filipinx? A new venereal disease?)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you call me Filipinx I will personally go to your house and eat you alive,\u201d @yousoromi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yousoromi\/status\/1552099156868489218\">warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is it that I, a white American dude, who has a moderately basic knowledge of Latin languages know more about said languages \u2014 like the fact that \u2018X\u2019 doesn\u2019t exist in the vocabulary or that gender neutral terms already exist in said languages \u2014 than these people?\u201d @soulkibble <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soulkibble\/status\/1552063361235357696\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/learningfilipino.com\/language\/filipino-alphabet\/\">Filipino language<\/a> did not include the letter X at all until 1976, when 8 new letters were added to the original Tagalog alphabet \u2014 and even then, the letter only appears in words that are derived from foreign origins.<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out the fact that the word Filipino is already a <a href=\"https:\/\/preen.ph\/96642\/on-the-filipino-gender-neutral-language-and-our-egalitarian-origin\">gender neutral<\/a> term \u2014 as are the language\u2019s pronouns. Typically, a person is addressed as \u201csiya\u201d (\u201cthem\u201d) and there are no gender-specific words for he\/she or him\/her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Comic Con took some heat this week for slapping a woke label on a panel featuring Filipino \u201cVoices In Pop Culture\u201d: Filipinx. Much like the often-criticized term Latinx \u2014 which has been widely panned by members of the very community it is used to describe \u2014 the convention\u2019s social media team\u2019s use &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}