I want to blog this so that I remember. @Dylbriones on the bird site laments one of the many ways colonialism did a number on us, going practically unnoticed: the history passages on our own local government websites:
our educational system really did us dirty cause its depressing af the way we write about ourselves in the history sections of LGU websites
— Villain mmxxiv (@Dylbriones) August 13, 2024
Hella embarrassing, we internalize this crap and give way to so much easily exploitable self-hate pic.twitter.com/9Ori78q1Mg
— Villain mmxxiv (@Dylbriones) August 13, 2024
In it is a screenshot with highlighted text, “more advanced and civilized community was established” referring to the era of Spanish occupation. He also points out the use of “pagan”:
Gosh who even uses "pagan" to refer to precolonial religious practices in this day and age, I thought they phased that out na
— Villain mmxxiv (@Dylbriones) August 13, 2024
They are small words. Probably lifted from wikis and western-centric perspectives. Pasted on poorly maintained sites, because who cares what goes into those divs, they just need some filler. To be read, referenced, and repeated by impressionable minds… and the cycle restarts. I want to blog this so that I remember.