The San Diego Comic Con took some heat this week for slapping a woke label on a panel featuring Filipino “Voices In Pop Culture”: Filipinx.
Much like the often-criticized term Latinx — which has been widely panned by members of the very community it is used to describe — the convention’s social media team’s use of the term Filipinx appeared to be an attempt to be gender-inclusive.
But critics were not impressed, and quickly took to Twitter to hit back at Comic Con.
“Stop 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,” @nknewsorg’s social media editor Oliver Jia (@OliverJia1014) commented.
“Want to know why white liberals push this ‘Latinx’ and ‘Filipinx’ s***? It’s the ‘white man’s burden,'” @ReviewsPossum added. “They 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 ‘enlightened’ sensibilities. It’s racism.”