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21 | 🌽 |📍SD | chwa tz’aq | maya k’iche’ boy | queer | he/him | *ೃ༄
Tepacul Watai (San Diego, CA)
Joined August 2017
Y’ALLLLL it’s the end of an era and i made a new IG acc (@andyelamorcito) bc IG is ugly and smooth brained. pls share and rt so i can gain my mutuals back 🤲🏽
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you can always rely on the west to suck every last bit of color out of indigenous cultures. anyways here’s some actual examples of regalia from nahuatl speaking communities
Play as an Aztec trying to withstand the assault of Spanish conquistadors in the first-person survival action-RPG Ecumene Aztec, launching in 2025.
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the one who’s not the walking embodiment of white men hyper sexualizing and fetishizing indigenous women…so nani.
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cishet latinos/latinas will writhe and thrash like cranky toddlers at the sight of the letters e and x but not direct even an ounce of outrage at the rampant machismo, homophobia, anti blackness, and anti indigeneity in their community. priorities…🤭.
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grown ass adults trying to justify this lol…a nation of apathetic buck-toothed snow roaches stuck in the middle ages but somehow they’re the ‘civilized’ ones.
Queen's Guard knocks over child while marching on duty. Thoughts?
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white latines stop using “white passing,” you are WHITE. that term was not coined for you to misuse over and over again.
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not seeing enough folks mention that maría ríos is a mixtec woman from oaxaca. indigenous women in LatAm are disproportionately affected by sexual violence and the ongoing femicide crisis. this isn’t shocking for a man who comes from a culture of machismo.
Tenoch Huerta has been accused of sexual assault by María Elena Ríos. (Source:
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being an anti-black pos isn’t and will never be okay, please seek help and keep our afro-indigenous kin out of your filthy settler mouth!.
“afro-indigenous” isn’t an identity hope this helps !
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“took” mexico does not own this swath of land either. mexico is a settler colonial state and this land was and IS the land of countless indigenous nations. this was a transfer of occupation and MX continues to oppress indigenous populations today.
2. As big as it's now, it used to be MUCH bigger.In the 1846-48 war with the US, the US took 55% of Mexico’s land!
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is it really that difficult for non indigenous folk to use the PRESENT tense when referring to indigenous peoples? all of these listed ethnic groups have living continuations today. this just reinforces colonial narratives of extinction.
3/ The Mayans were another prominent civilization in Mesoamerica, whose culture and religion influenced the development of the region. They built impressive cities with elaborate architecture, and developed a writing system and advanced knowledge of astronomy.
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this is the problem with how latines approach causes involving INDIGENOUS people. multiple tweets mislabeling mendez as “hispanic”, “guatemalan”, and “latino” when he’s actually mam maya and speaks mam as his first language. this kind of reporting is violent in itself.
In Florida they’re attempting to put a Hispanic kid (Virgilio Aguilar Mendez) in jail for life because the officer that died during the unlawful encounter in the first place had a heart attack due to pre-existing conditions and they’re blaming him for it.
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y’all keep calling him ‘latino’ but he’s actually quechua. respect our andean king 🥔⛰️.
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the mexican sneak lmao…how are folks gonna act like mexico’s “territory” wasn’t also stolen land put under the occupation of mexico’s settler government? the yaqui, apache, chumash, and countless others didn’t resist mexican settlers for nothing ya know.
but the us did this to the native americans and mexicans. 😭.
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this is why evangelical white christians need to be banned from the global south. spreading colonialism, disease, and zionism.
Support dances for Israel in Papua New Guinea. The first country in the world to decide to open a consulate in Judea and Samaria.
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mayan is not a language rather it’s the name of the language family 30 languages fall under. it’s important to refer to them as languages and not dialects. keep in mind maría telón and maría coroy are maya kaqchikel and josué maychi is maya yucateco.
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reminder that the MX government is carrying out its own initiatives of unaliving indigenous land defenders, displacing communities like the triqui, deploying state violence on groups like the otomí, + committing ecocide with the tren maya project, endangering maya ancestral.
PRESS RELEASE: Mexico, invoking Article 63 of the #ICJ Statute, filed a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (#SouthAfrica v. #Israel)
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indigenous land has never and will never belong to mexican settlers or the settler nation of mexico btw.
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kinda insane how chicanes really have effectively tricked the global north into legitimizing pan indian creations in so called native american spaces.
Happening now: Native American Indigenous Roots are leading the march for a free Palestine in Minneapolis
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seeing so many ppl being quick to blame the US but fail to hold the settler state of mexico accountable for this as well. that “la raza” rhetoric won’t hide the fact that MX is waging atrocities on indigenous peoples and continues to uphold genocidal and neoliberal policies.
A tragic night in Ciudad Juárez where 37 migrants lost their lives after the Mexican immigrant facility where they were being detained caught on fire.
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growing older i realize that the jokes about men’s height in LatAm largely stems from anti indigeneity. mind you it’s just human variation, embrace petiteness!.
that short latino stereotype only rlly applies to mexicans, central, and south americans 💀.
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why some of y’all still putting “viva la raza” in your bios it’s an extremely anti-black and anti-indigenous thing to perpetuate i-.
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nationalizing indigenous creations is odd bc the ‘metate’ is integral to living groups like the hopi and hualapai (arizona) and to the bribri and cabécar (costa rica) despite their ancestral lands being situated outside of mexico’s colonial borders.
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like be fr simply typing in “chel” on twitter yields animated p0rn and cosplay that reduces her to a sex object :/.
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leaving indigenous communities vulnerable to state and cartel violence is leftist? letting ecocide continue with the tren maya is leftist?.
“A leftist woman could never get elected in a socially conservative country”. yeah ok
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mestizo discourse is continually trying to equate the terms ‘mexican’ and ‘indigenous’ as interchangeable and one in the same which is damaging as hell. indigeneity has never been about blood so it’s interesting y’all’s argument seemingly always circles back to that.
@alienjess_ Majority of mexicans have substantial indigenous blood. I think we all recognize a lot aren't but you can't be dismissive like that brah.
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ah yes…the two neoliberal capitalist playgrounds made on maya ancestral lands whom mexico leeches off of to rake in money and keep local indigenous peoples as subservient and a cheap commodity.
everyone hates on mexicans but spends their birthdays in cancun or tulum.
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let’s not compare luigi to a pathological indigenous cosplayer now.
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seeing videos trending of latines listing indigenous names for newborns is weird. also using pics of white babies while doing so. crazy how first and last names that got us bullied are now cool to have…
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it’s crazy seeing an anti-black and anti-indigenous phrase rooted in eugenics, mestizaje, and white supremacy being used for a protest about the liberation of palestinians from a genocidal apartheid state.
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y’all gagging at this? LatAm mestize presidents do this to pander to indigenous peoples and show performative solidarity whilst doing nothing to improve our quality of life or rights such as what is happening in oaxaca right NOW 🧵:
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indigenous ancestral sites will never belong to a settler nation nor is your heritage either considering your government profits off of maya peoples while letting them suffer in poverty. the vatican flag tells me everything i need to know 🤭.
A Mexican visiting a Mexican national heritage site is what you’re complaining about…. go get a job.
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clockwise: santa catarina axochitlan, tuxpan, cuacuila, and cuetzalan (pls correct me if i made any mistakes! just want to credit each respective pueblo) :).
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wasn’t too long ago mestizes were shitting on indigenous spirituality and clowning our pueblos for celebrating. but latinidad capitalism has made it ‘cool’ all of a sudden but i digress.
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oh gl*ria anzaldúa when i catch you.
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symptoms of mexicanidad include lacking understanding of how indigenous foods cannot be credited to a 200 year old settler nation. what’s the rationale for tamales being “mexican” if they were also being eaten in what is now the US southwest and central america?
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literally copy and paste ideology. anti zionist chicanes need to connect the dots and clock their own delusional mythical birthright claim to land that is not theirs. like baby what’s not clicking?.
Someone said aztlan is just Chicano Israel.
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nationalized mestizes and whitexicans do not have the same relationship to the land that indigenous peoples of so called ‘mexico’ have. the dominant group facilitates ecocide, capitalism and indigenous displacement. this isn’t a group project.
@chuchitobebito Yeah but most of Mexico has indigenous roots so When referring to Mexicans it definitely belongs to “us”.
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this is cute! i need ppl to not equate DDLM with ‘mexico’ because it’s an indigenous holiday predating all settler state formations in so called LatAm. just how lunar new year isn’t exclusively chinese let’s acknowledge how customs aren’t confined by imaginary borders.
📸| Chappell Roan shares photos of ofrenda for her deceased guinea pigs
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y’all are. what’s even crazier is how much you get away with being anti black, anti indigenous, and colorist because somehow US anti mexican sentiment cancels out your full capability of blatant racism towards others. not to mention MX is founded on yt supremacy like the US.
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mexican nationalists never beating those white supremacist allegations. and y’all still have the gall to try and claim indigeneity when you’re insinuating that andeans look like monkeys.
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indigeneity is not biological, it’s inherently political and “half indigenous” isn’t a thing. you’re either indigenous or you’re not. you’re of native ancestry if that’s what you mean. and having native ancestry doesn’t make you incapable of being the oppressor. just ask LatAm.
@DogHumbled @liltresleches_ You’re forgetting that we’re also half indigenous. So we’re half oppressed, and half oppressor. I only claim my indigenous side.
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i think it’s important that we center and highlight our caribbean kin today who directly experienced that man’s brutality as it often gets lost amongst northern native prioritization. also south america exists. let’s not exclude half of the continent.
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you do realize so called ‘mexico’ aids in incarcerating indigenous migrants from CentAm and touts xenophobic policies like the US? also the mexican colonial state is not representative of indigenous peoples who pre date its very existence.
The sad reality between a country full of ancestral and indigenous people like mexico and the other full of a government that has always hate all races . #Immigration #libertyofexpression #icedeportation #hopemypeoplebesafe #usa #mexico
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the flood of “girl boss” comments hdnfjrhdhdjsjdh this is how neoliberal colonial nations like the US and mexico create a façade of progressiveness while keeping black, indigenous and impoverished peoples subordinate.
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@catrussy notice how chicanes are leading the discourse too with Mexican centrism? completely disregarding how María Mercedes Coroy is literally from Guatemala and the concept of Namor is drawn from Maya influence as well? Maya ppl are found in Centroamérica too y’all 💀.
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wake it up! white folk love removing lorises, sugar gliders, monkeys, lemurs, ocelots, fennec foxes and other wild animals from the global south…a byproduct of colonialism me thinks.
Stop keeping wild animals as pets and things like this wouldn’t happen. Hope this helps :).
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a complex topic for sure bc “nativo/a” is rarely (if ever) used in lexicon amongst pueblos. ‘indígenas’ & ‘originarios’ indicate the same purpose as native or NDN but within their respected contexts. two regions with different standardized colonial languages and history.
Brown Native erasure is real in Native communities. Yalitza Aparicio is the FIRST Native Oscar nominee. Not Lily Gladstone. You will not erase Triqui and Mixtec peoples just like that!. Correct your headlines to say Lily Gladstone is the first American Indian.
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not to mention how many of y’all are saying how mendez speaks a “mayan dialect” which is both offensive and false as all mayan languages are LANGUAGES. lemme repeat that. LANGUAGES. foh with that microaggressive shit.
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you can add almost the entirety of Latin America as well. vestiges of settler colonialism will always be vestiges of settler colonialism.
Israel shouldn't exist. Canada shouldn't exist. USA shouldn't exist. & now what?
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this is anti indigenous….
Mexicans fucked up for making Mole that shit is disgusting.
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her “indigeneity” being that of cosplaying as a tehuana to satisfy her husband’s weird fetish for indigenous women and stealing cultural items from her indigenous maids that worked for her elite criollo family 🤩.
and don’t forget that she was also indigenous and disabled and her art focused on her indigeneity connected to her sexuality and disability <3.
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half of y’all are white and do the absolute most in discriminating against black, indigenous and asian ppl like it’s a hobby…
the casual racism to latinos on this app is infuckingsane….
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whitexicans and their urge to pretend mexico didn’t settle and brutalize the chumash, tongva, pomo, kumeyaay etc. themselves.
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mexicanidad always manages to rear its anti black and xenophobic head in latinos that are white adjacent.
Ryan Garcia has been expelled by the World Boxing Council after going on rant of racist slurs and anti-muslim remarks. He has since announced he’s going to rehab.
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these kind of tiktoks from mestizes/non-indigenous folk make me wonder if they’re opening their purses to support local maya vendors/businesses and are actively advocating for our communities and amplifying maya voices. or is this just some chicanismo for your socials?
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latines shouldn’t be leading the convo either. centering latinidad ignores how mendez’s arrest reflects disparities of how monolingual indigenous ppl from so called LatAm are failed by systems routed in serving colonial & standardized languages like english and spanish.
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hilarious trying to frame hispanics as the middle man when they too have been contributing to anti blackness as LatAm is founded upon that just like anglo america. this is not a conflict. it’s systemic oppression of black folk and the african diaspora at the hands of whiteness.
I always advise Hispanics not to get involved in the racial conflict that has been going on between Black and White Americans for 300 years. Even if they try to pull you in. Focus on yourself, family, community, and creating bonds with productive likeminded people.
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it’s crazy how mexicans are trying to insert themselves when modern LatAm settler nations are successor states of new spain. in many cases, oppression and violence towards indigenous ppl actually escalated after the so called “independence” and withdrawal of the spanish empire.
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“latinx is a racialized identity” LMAO the mestiza delusion is real. plus when are non-black latines gonna stop using “white passing” incorrectly? it’s not applicable for y’all.
i can’t believe i have to say this again but. yes, being white-passing is real and it’s a form of privilege, but. white-passing is not the same as white. NOBODY who is latinx is white. latinx is a racialized identity. no matter how “transparent” i am, I AM NOT FUCKING WHITE.
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@innocuq little correction, indigenous languages, not dialects. but yes diasporic latines are goofy as hell :).
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PLEASE READ: the purépecha community of san angel zurumucapio is in current crisis and needs help. they are looking for donations. indigenous peoples of ‘mexico’ are disproportionately harmed by cartels and the mexican settler government fails to provide them protection.
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i know she ain’t talking about skin tone. girlie’s ancestors probably ran an hacienda. whitexicans please be serious for once challenge 😒.
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placing the cloak of latinidad over indigenous folk has severe real life outcomes and assumes our families and communities know spanish which endangers our abilities to access vital resources and defend ourselves in societies powered by means of european languages.
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it really does need to stop being normalized. mestizaje in LatAm literally mirrors zionism in occupied palestine. your advocacy is phony if you think shouting a phrase coined by a mexican ethnofascist is a good idea to show solidarity.
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the LatAm blueprint on how to commodify indigeneity and give the peoples they take from nothing in return 😍.
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i hope folks realize that so called LatAm is an extension of what the spanish started and the maya region continues to be subject to desecration as it is occupied by five different colonial nations. our land is still not free and won’t be with settler nationalist sentiment.
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a whole lot of yapping when y’all constantly call folks from chiapas and oaxaca ‘guatemalan’ and then when indigenous folk from CentAm pass through MX you dehumanize us with actual xenophobia. hell y’all’s government incarcerate maya migrants heading for the US. dpmo
3-If someone calls you “Mexican” as a “slur” and you feed into the notion that it’s a “slur” with your reaction, you are xenophobic. 4- if you consider the word “Mexican” a slur, you are xenophobic. 5- you’re googling the word xenophobia right now ain’t you? 😄. Toodles 😀✨.
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lands in the name of tourism. MX border security is inhumanely jailing indigenous migrants from CentAm. los pueblos originarios forever stand with palestine and we’ll continue to hold these spineless nation states accountable.
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@AnnoyingGae @EliasOstorn no, and it’s not necessary to clearly see that y’all need to address actual problems that marginalize women, black and indigenous people rather than a silly grammatical change
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why are indigenous women being dragged into the “built like a mexican” discourse when this clearly stems from the “latinas are either selena or yolanda” tired ass joke on here? we’re using racist phrenology atp if you are suggesting indigenous women have a specific body shape.
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“mexican braids” yet proceeds to show various photos of indigenous oaxacan women and styles also worn by pueblos in guatemala and el salvador too. the luh teeno urge to insert settler nationalism at every and any chance
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tell her goofy ass that ‘mayan civilization’ doesn’t equate to the mexican settler state or any modern day settler entity. also how you gonna mention us but then use a nahuatl word immediately after? customs are shared and are trans-regional btw
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you’re native hawaiian and saying this? yikes. indigeneity in LatAm is not blood based, and mestizes are very much capable of upholding colonial policies and oppressing indigenous peoples. LatAm is quite literally an extension of what the spanish started.
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“dialect” has been used in the past by western scholars to undermine indigenous languages and separate them from european ones because they were thought to not be “fully developed.” variant is a more respectful term to refer to regional differences of a particular tongue.
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i truly hate seeing hopi, o’odham, kumeyaay, yaqui, zuni, etc. kin constantly be caught in the crossfire of nationalist mexican and united statesian land grab discourse and being treated as non-existent so two settler nations can tussle over where to draw imaginary lines :/.
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standing up there so righteously despite chile deploying state forces that quell mapuche activists and seize ancestral lands and riot police in CDMX assaulting encampments of displaced triqui communities. hmm….
BREAKING 🇲🇽-🇵🇸-🇨🇱 The Mexican and Chilean governments have filed a joint request to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.
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and yet the movement still managed to obscure and disregard black & indigenous ppl from any discourse and allow y’all to hide behind mestizaje as a means to absolve you from any accountability of ingrained anti blackness and anti indigeneity while appropriating our creations.
This is rlly dumb bc ur not mentioning that after, people in the Chicano Movement started using “La Raza Unida” to combat racism and prejudice in the US. “La raza” phrase was started by a white supremacist, but it was later changed to represent ALL the people.
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white anglos really need to stfu. “i consider hispanics to be indigenous” is the direct byproduct of the global north racializing the entirety of LatAm as non-white. you just end up revealing your stupidity as if LatAm isn’t founded on yt supremacy itself.
Map of how American racial/ethnic groups are now defined, as of the 2024 update to OMB's Directive No. 15. It's colored to reflect the classification of its indigenous inhabitants, with the exception of Latin America, in which I considered Hispanics to be indigenous
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and when i say this genre of tattooing is corny and fetishizistic then what?
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@fathoodbitch911 they’d rather protect his image and career than listen to an indigenous woman. the fact he’s been surrounding himself with indigenous actresses like yalitza aparicio and maría coroy makes this news even worse.
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honestly so happy seeing indígenatok come together to jump this whitexican. constantly trying to downplay experiences of black and indigenous people in LatAm and looking like a fool doing so
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latino men being anti-black and attacking indigenous ppl what’s new?.
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hoping for the day when indigenous academia for the andes, caribbean, MesoAm, the amazon basin, patagonia etc. can stop being classified as “latin american studies” and exist separately as a realm of study.
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“product of revolution” yet so called ‘independence’ only ended up benefitting criollos and later mestizos who kept the oppression of black and indigenous peoples intact and in many cases escalated it with spanish authority absent.
The nation states of Mexico and Central America are a product of revolution against the colonial entity (Spain). Spains colonization of Latin America formulated new nations of people, but that doesn’t make them settlers. They developed from that land.
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if you weaponize the term “gatekeeper” against indigenous folk i can’t give you any respect. diasporic latine tiktok needs to stfu. like right now. 🫠
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latines get a platform for their art with vague statements like being “of native descent” or an “indigenous xicana” and then their art is just regurgitated indigenismo and chicanismo lol.
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ah yes, replacing existing settler nation control with new settler colonial nation control…repackaged white supremacy 😍.
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some comments under a video showcasing the afro-mexican community in oaxaca. “no importa el color” yea mestizos are never beating the LatAm equivalent of white anglos allegations. “i don’t see color” type bs
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like be fr. maya folk already have to hear the “collapse of the maya” bs and settler states like guatemala have this idea that our culture today is a degenerate version of the once glorious “ancient maya” to try and deny us our ancestral connections and validity.
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ur average novela lineup bottom row. are we surprised? no 🥴.
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every year we ask y’all to give credit where credit is due. día de muertos/todos santos is a borderless syncretic tradition carried by tenek, k’iche’, mixe, tseltal, ixil, nawat, kichwa, aymara and countless other indigenous communities across so called LatAm.
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an insane video title considering how much anti blackness, anti indigeneity, anti asian sentiment, and xenophobia is produced by MexAm every other day of the week
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ijbol mestizo politicians always wearing indigenous textiles when at the end of the day y’all still fuck pueblos over and do nothing to protect us.
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*heavy sigh* everytime the settler nationalists try to pull the “LaNd BaCk AlSo MeAnS mExIcO tAkInG bAcK lAnD fRoM tHe US” when it comes to indigenous repatriation.
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i often see mestizos use relatives to justify trying to speak on indigeneity but never actually address themselves. it’s completely possible for other family members to be indigenous and have you not harbor that same identity therefore having different lived experiences.
@lelwafuturo223 @alienjess_ Yall? You don't fucking know me. I'm mexican my dad is purepecha shit the fuck up.
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mestizaje is literally built into the societal framework of LatAm settler nations and touted and weaponized regularly against black and indigenous people to establish supremacy. stop treating it like it’s a pejorative when it’s utilized by the oppressors.
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“i remember this place ❤️” and it’s a literal fucking AI generated video of what ‘maya civilization’ looks like…what are y’all yapping about?
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“pure” if you don’t stfu, we are people not dogs. so weird of you to use a random photo of an indigenous woman too.
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