SFist: Double Your Lapu

jrusso

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:37:14 -0800

I registered just to leave this--my first--comment on SFist. After catching up on about three weeks of unread SFist posts in my RSS newsfeed, I can now honestly say that SFist has sucked recently... And this post tops it off: I'm really disheartened. Some statistics show that Pilipino Americans are the fastest-growing Asian group in the United States. Another suggests that one in five Pilipinos choose to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, the demographic is *huge*, and it's unfortunate that AdSense/Analytics/fill in whatever you use for demographic data gathering either (1) isn't picking that up, (2) you don't pay for detailed reporting, or (3) hasn't been configured by you [Gothamist] to report this. SFist, get your act together--either hire writers who are more educated (and necessarily more "sensitive" to the audience they write for), or get with the program: hire writers who accurately reflect the community they purport to represent.

jpn

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:47:58 -0800

This post was written by the same author who last year described a parol a some kind of Xmas ornament".

taran

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:43:13 -0800

OMG, mattymatt, you implied that all Pilipinos are crazy and ethnic and live in questionable neighborhoods! Or something. Right?

jonnaro

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:55:12 -0800

i don't even get the point of this post. who didn't know these streets existed? and i found it to be extremely offensive as well. i'm very disappointed in the quality of sfist recently. i doubt this writer is even from san francisco. and if he is, it's a shame.

EllyMental

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:01:39 -0800

In spite of any cultural insensitivity, these streets are a great place to test ride a bike from Pac Bikes. No traffic!

travin

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:19:57 -0800

Looking at pics of Lapu Lapu, it strikes me how much he resembles native americans. http://tinyurl.com/566spw

jericho

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:38:07 -0800

Unwitty, offensive, and uneducated. Thanks for the insensitive non-apology too, dick.

A_Native_Son

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:58:52 -0800

You know that one scene in the movie Swingers where the guys are goofin off in thier apartment making Wayne Gretzky's head bleed, where the delivery guy is at the door and Vince Vaughn's character, Trent, jokingly shouts at Jon Favreau's character askin if the delivery guy was brown? You know that scene? Yeah, you know that scene. Well, sometimes, our lovely editor at SFist is Trent. Funny, snarky, and deliberately, childishly a dick. Sometimes he forgets that while it's funny to piss on a prince, it's not so funny when you piss on a peasant. *and this is where everyone jokes about how they love urinating on thier local bum. Movin right along...remember back in the mid-90's when Filipino kids would wear those Pinoy Pride t-shirts with a buff ass Lapu Lapu? No? Well I do, and they were awesome.

travin

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:59:51 -0800

SOMA has traditionally been pinoy for many decades. So don't be hatin', we done just as bad or worse by them as we did with native americans.

ellebliss

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:41:10 -0800

More than two offended if more were to read this, as Fil-Ams are the second largest Asian group in the States, with plenty of history (that includes institutionalized racism) in bay area.

Brock Keeling

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:02:37 -0800

jondis, you have provided me with much hilarity this evening. sheer genius.

Generic

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:00:07 -0800

Hey, that Teddy Roosevelt was a great president, yeah?

rajbot

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:28:05 -0800

"Hedge maze" is actually a community garden. Still kinda nice to sit in.

jondis

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:22:22 -0800

er...if you poked around the area a bit you'd notice the Filipino Education Center along with a large number of Filipino families living in the area, usually rundown old alleyway edwardians not the new fancy condo lofts. If you were being cheeky by saying "ethnic", it didn't quite come across well. As an offended minority (we're a sensitive lot here), please be a little more careful in your writing as this community has been in a constant battle with the economic forces of San Francisco. The street names were given to give a historically oppressed community some pride in a place that they lived. A bit lazy with the wiki link I'd say. Sorry to be harsh but I'm just offended by a blog that claims to be SF and people don't respect it's history. For other classic development battles, please see the recent Japantown post. Man I'm pretty disgusted, can SFIST take this post down?? This is worse than reading a Yelp review. I'm just trying to think of other ways to tell you you suck. Please feel free to rebut. -SF Born and raised.

zippy_monster

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:51:48 -0800

So what does James lick again?

jkahn

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:38:20 -0800

Appears to be a Pinoy block. Lapu Lapu, Rizal, Bonifacio and Mabini. All Philippine heroes.

anopneumous

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:49:49 -0800

The dude killed Magellan. Come on man, he's a Filipino hero!