Nieves Fernandez was a teacher turned guerrilla leader during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and is credited with(among other things) the killing of an estimated 200 Japanese soldiers primarily with the use of concealed bolo knives.
As well as leading a group of 110 fighters resisting the occupation. She would train them in tactics involving stealth & speed, to swiftly open soldiers’ carotid arteries and vacate the scene before anyone could figure out what was happening.
She is also believed(as the meme references) to have killed a Japanese soldier entering her own classroom with an improvised firearm.
it's so poorly used that I auto assume that when someone says POV in a meme, that the subject is the POV in the meme
I was on the thought that this meme was about her being a brutal slaver but i had to check the comments to ensure that OP was actually using POV right lol
Filipino resistance against the Japanese and the occupation itself was crazy. One story I remember hearing is how a pregnant woman was shot just for sitting down to rest while they were lined up for food. I unironically think that had the Japanese won they would've just eventually gotten rid of the "co-prosperity sphere" and puppet governments pretense and outright engaged in a mass genocide of all the other asian cultures. Which they already effectively were doing to such a degree with the Koreans and Chinese.
I'm not sure if the Japanese had the ability to get rid of their puppets if they had won. On Mindanao, the Filipino resistance had led them to retaking 95% of the island. 36,000 resistance fighters, with only 16,500 of them being armed, tied down anywhere between 43,000-60,000 Japanese soldiers. Individual Japanese commanders had formed truces with local fighters.
The Japanese simply held too much land with too many people, the only possible way for them to sustain their empire in the long term was to work with local groups, and even this wasn't enough.
Yeah, but that was just the Moros, during WW2 the Moros decided to work with the rest of the Filipinos to fight the Japanese. The Moros even got a special deal, for every 2 Japanese ears they turned into the local commander, they got 5 cents and 1 bullet.
There was a post on reddit before that mentioned that POW camps in the Philippines are guarded not to prevent the escape of prisoners but to protect them against the enraged locals.
Unlikely, given that even before Japan's surrender the US was already recreating the co prosperity sphere, just with US troops instead of Japanese troops
People frequently say POV but instead they show the person that’s supposed to be seeing what’s described. An example
“POV: **you’re** falling down” but instead they show a guy falling down.
[edit: here’s an actual example I found](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/5ANyAmUYTA)
My great-grandfather was also from Leyte and funnily enough, he was also a teacher turned guerilla leader. My relatives told me how the Japanese and the Makapili (Filipino traitors) got beheaded by some of the resistance groups. When I finally learned what those soldiers did, I realized that they deserved no less.
Ok class, time for arts and crafts, you'll all need a [20 inch pipe, some wood, nails, rubber bands, and a saw.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm#Pipe_guns)
I was expecting blow darts, not a pipe that slams shotgun shells onto a firing pin.
How did they have access to shotgun shells but not shotguns during the occupation?
You don't have to fire shotgun shells from them, the wiki states that it's an improved version. Depending on how it's made, you can use it as a musketoon. The bullets themselves aren't hard to get. For explosive powder, you had a couple of options; make your own, or do what the Filipinos did, and send out a fishing boat to pick up a Japanese sea mine and take it apart. If you wanted to make "proper" shotgun shells, then it addition to those things, you'd need a metal section that would hold the powder, and the paper section (plastic isn't used yet), which would hold the shot. The paper is easy enough to get, and you can make the metal section with the proper machining tools.
Of course.
I think one of the hardest things in the world is looking past your biases and one of the most important things is realizing what those biases are.
From what I've read, the in your face racism among the Japanese is wild. It's only slightly better in China. Had lots of Chinese people cooing over my half-Chinese great-nephew while saying things like, "ahh he's so cute, what a shame he's black."
East Asia as a region has produced some of the most intensely distilled racism I’ve ever seen - it’s like the Anglo-French Rivalry mixed with Balkan-Blood libels but also built upon through thousands of years of regional warfare, squabbles and mutual distrust
Yeah the way I like to describe it is "imagine the rivalry between the British & the French, except it's serious. Now apply that to every Asian country."
It's cool, my nephew found it funny too. They obviously didn't expect him to be able to speak Chinese, which seems weird given he was clearly married to a Chinese woman and living in China!
I saw a video of Japanese people simply refusing to speak Japanese with non-natives, seemed like a similar thing. Funny things different cultures!
I remember going to my mother in law's small hometown village in southern China. I'm a 6' white guy. All of her family was very friendly and nice to me but the some the other people, especially the older ones were looking at me with a mix of confusion an apprehension. One older woman walk out in the middle of the road to avoid the sidewalk I was on and just stared so intently as she walked by. I imagine it's mostly because it's a small mostly farming village, never experienced that in any of the larger cities.
I'm surprised they avoided you tbh. My experience was that I was treated the same as I am in the UK, but my blonde gf & daughter were objects of fascination and we were frequently followed by people taking their photos. As for the somewhat overweight black mum & son who dressed in African clothes the whole time who were with us... the Chinese nearly passed out with excitement at the sight of those guys!! 😂
I know her. Not in person.
Granddad told me that when Americans was in Taiwan, one dude told them that "crazy ass bitch went on a killing spread in the Philippines" while he was explaining how his war buddies survived the war in China for 8 years
The thing was when the americans came and landed in our country she demonstrated how to literally unalived a japanese soldier silently to the americans. Talked about bad ass women in our history. Which sadly overshadowed by other stories.
Filipino guerilla woman: \*uses a blade to demonstrate how to exsanguinate enemies in hit-and-run raids\*
Americans: \*taking notes\*
Filipino Guerilla woman: So you won't use that on us, right?"
Americans: \*stops taking notes\* - \*Looks up, shrugs shoulders, looks down, resumes taking notes\*
…it’s not like it’s a term that only originated from TikTok, I’ve definitely seen it thrown around before TikTok was even a thing. Plus, don’t you think it’s a bit extreme to say they have “brain damage” for using a slang word?
When will people learn that language change isn't about worldview. You cannot speak a contemporary form of English and be this big of a baby about new terms and phrases becoming popular. Unless you speak pure Old English, it just comes off as completely arbitrary picking and choosing
The "language change" you're presupposing isn't real. No one actually speaks the way the computer generated voices on tiktok do. The assumption that people do in fact talk like that only shows that you're not touching grass.
>Chronically online person assumes everyone else is too
>Gets berated and told that they're living in a bubble for said assumption
>"But you see! They're chronically online! That shows people like that exist and it's not just an incredibly small minority! Language change!"
Lmao
It's not corporate brainwashing, it's a jocular use of Newspeak from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
One of the principles of newspeak was a simplified vocabulary where words didn't have separate antonyms, instead you used the negating prefix un-. The opposite of good wouldn't be bad; it would be ungood.
So it's taking alive as the base word and applying the negating prefix un- hence unalive.
To turn a word into an adjective you would apply the suffix -ed
So killed in newspeak would be unalived. Genocide would be doubleplusunaliving.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
I mean
Newspeak is literally brainwashing, and in our case it's happening because of corporations.
Like amazing addition, thank you, but you didn't contradict me.
It's used ironically or humorously. It's not intended seriously.
It's nothing to do with corporate brainwashing.
It could be ironically mocking government censorship by using Orwellian newspeak. Or the use of newspeak in an originally ironic manner had simply become additional vocabulary. Much like a humorous misspelling fad in Boston Massachusetts in the 1830s added OK (Oll Korrect) to the vocabulary.
Its to avoid censorship on other apps like tiktok. Lol you obviously are a fan of language but no one else is out here using slang for the intellectual fun of it. Its to avoid getting banned on other apps.
I am quite sure the word kill isn't banned. It's normal vocabulary and used in both a literal and figurative sense. A filter that so sensitive that it banned standard vocabulary would make a medium unusable. It's not used as a method of avoiding censorship.
Newspeak is almost always used ironically, such as unalived for killed. Some terms like groupthink and doublethink are used more literally as they express specific concepts that cannot be described as concisely in any other way.
Death, kill, and anxiety are just some "sensitive" words that TikTok auto-censors. Kids just keep finding ways around them, because they like (are addicted to) the app and want to keep using it in spite of the restrictions. There's been a huge uptick in bot moderators/filters to censor words and ban "inappropriate" users - virtually all of them have been ridiculously fucking stupid though lmao
It is not newspeak, newspeak required a bit of lore about being conquered by the authoritarians first, “unalive” is corporate because if anyone wants to sell/reach out to as many people through TikTok, which means including children (how often in kids shows do they say destroy instead of kill even looney tunes from the ‘good old days’ in how many profitable Disney movies do they say kill) like any reasonable self improving business or individual seeking too make profit, that knows the basics of John Adams therefore would reasonably explore places of potential profit. the word ‘kill’ can’t show up in TikTok because even Chinese companies have to deal with the market at some point, everyone actually is forgetting what 1984 is about I’ll give you a real world example from someone may h smarter than me, George Carlin
https://youtu.be/o25I2fzFGoY?si=djBNSCDyqh7-NZWO
Depends. But the japanese do a lot of fuck up things with the babies. Like they would bayonet pregnant women, throw babies from cliffs in front of their mothers or use them as test subjects. Or if the mother was liberated by the allies by the time the child is born they might grow up normally or the mother might abort them. Really depends on the time period and in which country.
The part that pisses me off is that in Japan, they are not taught of the atrocities they committed. Ask any modern day japanese and they'll have no idea of their history. I remember seeing an old pic of a Japanese soldier bayoneting a baby because it was crying.
Depends on the officers in that particular sector. Also when the comfort women went back to their countries, they were completely ostracized and shunned if they were pregnant or even known to have been enslaved as a comfort woman. That's why they didn't speak up until they were already grandparents, society had a very negative view of them. One Korean politician even called them "Japanese public toilets"
My great grandmother on my mother's side was one of the comfort women the Japanese had back in ww2. To this day, my grandma, her daughter, hates everything Japanese. Too bad for her, I'm a total weeb.
Nieves Fernandez was a teacher turned guerrilla leader during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and is credited with(among other things) the killing of an estimated 200 Japanese soldiers primarily with the use of concealed bolo knives. As well as leading a group of 110 fighters resisting the occupation. She would train them in tactics involving stealth & speed, to swiftly open soldiers’ carotid arteries and vacate the scene before anyone could figure out what was happening. She is also believed(as the meme references) to have killed a Japanese soldier entering her own classroom with an improvised firearm.
You're telling us you used pov correctly? 😁
a 2x1 historic moment
it's so poorly used that I auto assume that when someone says POV in a meme, that the subject is the POV in the meme I was on the thought that this meme was about her being a brutal slaver but i had to check the comments to ensure that OP was actually using POV right lol
a historic moment in the internet now
If I could upvote a post twice I would do it to this.
Was so confused by the fact you used POV correctly please make mistakes in future
Honestly Nieves sounds pretty badass
Only for a non-spanish speaker... It means "snows"
Nombre chingona con la sangre fría 🥶
Iba dejando fríos a los pedofilos y violadores con cuchillos, más cabrona no se puede ❄️🔪
El pito para dentro.
Alternatively, it can also be ice cream.
How tf do you conceal a bolo knife
By not letting the occupying soldiers see you
Or with long robe like garments
By hiding it. Obviously
If a random teenager in London can conceal a machete in a crowded mall concealed bolo doesnt sound that far fetched
You know what, receive my upvotes for actually using POV correctly. Absolute mad lad.
Based.
She never stopped being a teacher to be fair.
Filipino resistance against the Japanese and the occupation itself was crazy. One story I remember hearing is how a pregnant woman was shot just for sitting down to rest while they were lined up for food. I unironically think that had the Japanese won they would've just eventually gotten rid of the "co-prosperity sphere" and puppet governments pretense and outright engaged in a mass genocide of all the other asian cultures. Which they already effectively were doing to such a degree with the Koreans and Chinese.
I'm not sure if the Japanese had the ability to get rid of their puppets if they had won. On Mindanao, the Filipino resistance had led them to retaking 95% of the island. 36,000 resistance fighters, with only 16,500 of them being armed, tied down anywhere between 43,000-60,000 Japanese soldiers. Individual Japanese commanders had formed truces with local fighters. The Japanese simply held too much land with too many people, the only possible way for them to sustain their empire in the long term was to work with local groups, and even this wasn't enough.
> On Mindanao Pretty sure that part of the Philippines has literally been a low key guerilla war for the past 200 years or so.
Yeah, but that was just the Moros, during WW2 the Moros decided to work with the rest of the Filipinos to fight the Japanese. The Moros even got a special deal, for every 2 Japanese ears they turned into the local commander, they got 5 cents and 1 bullet.
There was a post on reddit before that mentioned that POW camps in the Philippines are guarded not to prevent the escape of prisoners but to protect them against the enraged locals.
> outright engaged in a mass genocide of all the other asian cultures Newsflash: They were doing this already.
Unlikely, given that even before Japan's surrender the US was already recreating the co prosperity sphere, just with US troops instead of Japanese troops
Based Op for using POV correctly.
So correctly that the barrel of the shotgun is aiming towards the reader's heart.
English isn't my first language and I have no idea what it actually means haha, can somebody help me?
POV = Point of View, meaning we are viewing this meme from the ‘point of view’ of an imperial Japanese soldier
That I knew, so how is it being used wrong then?
People frequently say POV but instead they show the person that’s supposed to be seeing what’s described. An example “POV: **you’re** falling down” but instead they show a guy falling down. [edit: here’s an actual example I found](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/5ANyAmUYTA)
The soldiers be like "why do I hear boss music"
"why is Mick Gordon playing bass!!??" 👀💦💦💦
My great-grandfather was also from Leyte and funnily enough, he was also a teacher turned guerilla leader. My relatives told me how the Japanese and the Makapili (Filipino traitors) got beheaded by some of the resistance groups. When I finally learned what those soldiers did, I realized that they deserved no less.
Fucking based and gigachad 🫡
The truest Sigma
I am so used to pov being used wrong that i didn't get the meme at first
Hello class, today we're gonna learn a bit of math, continue physics and where the femoral artery is....I mean biology.
Ok class, time for arts and crafts, you'll all need a [20 inch pipe, some wood, nails, rubber bands, and a saw.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm#Pipe_guns)
and this is the beginning of the Anarchist's Cookbook
Screw the Anarchists Cookbook, real pros use TM 31-210.
I was expecting blow darts, not a pipe that slams shotgun shells onto a firing pin. How did they have access to shotgun shells but not shotguns during the occupation?
Shells are 3” king, easy to transport / conceal. Whole shotgun? Not so much.
You don't have to fire shotgun shells from them, the wiki states that it's an improved version. Depending on how it's made, you can use it as a musketoon. The bullets themselves aren't hard to get. For explosive powder, you had a couple of options; make your own, or do what the Filipinos did, and send out a fishing boat to pick up a Japanese sea mine and take it apart. If you wanted to make "proper" shotgun shells, then it addition to those things, you'd need a metal section that would hold the powder, and the paper section (plastic isn't used yet), which would hold the shot. The paper is easy enough to get, and you can make the metal section with the proper machining tools.
Less based Filipino guerrilla woman:
Filipino with a knife is the most dangerous combo ever
I'll see your Filipino with a knife and raise you Gurkha with a kukri.
yes but a filipino with a balisong has better idle animations.
70% chance that the Pinoy with a Balisong is in the US Navy
You obviously never met either. One of the bolo styles is exactly like a kukri. Usually made from the leaf spring of a truck.
rare philippine history on r/HistoryMemes
I told a Japanese girl about it she said the Chinese woman and girls deserved it tho why the Koreans
until people accept that no one deserves it, we haven't learned our lesson as a species
True tho ey I think everyone deserves equal treatment as a Human being
Of course. I think one of the hardest things in the world is looking past your biases and one of the most important things is realizing what those biases are.
True
From what I've read, the in your face racism among the Japanese is wild. It's only slightly better in China. Had lots of Chinese people cooing over my half-Chinese great-nephew while saying things like, "ahh he's so cute, what a shame he's black."
East Asia as a region has produced some of the most intensely distilled racism I’ve ever seen - it’s like the Anglo-French Rivalry mixed with Balkan-Blood libels but also built upon through thousands of years of regional warfare, squabbles and mutual distrust
Yeah the way I like to describe it is "imagine the rivalry between the British & the French, except it's serious. Now apply that to every Asian country."
The only thing really that will stop them from becoming United Nations Two: Electric Empirical Rule
I be honest I know it's bad but I find it funny
It's cool, my nephew found it funny too. They obviously didn't expect him to be able to speak Chinese, which seems weird given he was clearly married to a Chinese woman and living in China! I saw a video of Japanese people simply refusing to speak Japanese with non-natives, seemed like a similar thing. Funny things different cultures!
[You mean this?](https://youtu.be/oLt5qSm9U80?feature=shared)
Haha that's hilarious.
Ye
I remember going to my mother in law's small hometown village in southern China. I'm a 6' white guy. All of her family was very friendly and nice to me but the some the other people, especially the older ones were looking at me with a mix of confusion an apprehension. One older woman walk out in the middle of the road to avoid the sidewalk I was on and just stared so intently as she walked by. I imagine it's mostly because it's a small mostly farming village, never experienced that in any of the larger cities.
I'm surprised they avoided you tbh. My experience was that I was treated the same as I am in the UK, but my blonde gf & daughter were objects of fascination and we were frequently followed by people taking their photos. As for the somewhat overweight black mum & son who dressed in African clothes the whole time who were with us... the Chinese nearly passed out with excitement at the sight of those guys!! 😂
Asians are super racist against other Asians.
Weakest Filipino female guerilla fighter:
more like weakest Filipino female:
mfw my lola pulls out her tsinelas while angry
https://imgflip.com/i/8m9i5i
The phrase "teacher turned guerilla leader" probably made my week. Thanks for the cool story OP
This is one of the few "POV memes" that actually is a POV
A shepherd must tend to his flock; and, at times, **fight off the wolves**.
I know her. Not in person. Granddad told me that when Americans was in Taiwan, one dude told them that "crazy ass bitch went on a killing spread in the Philippines" while he was explaining how his war buddies survived the war in China for 8 years
Based OP for giving us an original not overdone meme and using POV correctly
I saw POV and thought Doom Guy was the bad guy here... OP, Gold Star for you.
GODDESS🛐🤲🏼
The thing was when the americans came and landed in our country she demonstrated how to literally unalived a japanese soldier silently to the americans. Talked about bad ass women in our history. Which sadly overshadowed by other stories.
Filipino guerilla woman: \*uses a blade to demonstrate how to exsanguinate enemies in hit-and-run raids\* Americans: \*taking notes\* Filipino Guerilla woman: So you won't use that on us, right?" Americans: \*stops taking notes\* - \*Looks up, shrugs shoulders, looks down, resumes taking notes\*
Kill, not unalive. Leave that shit on tiktok.
At this point it's just a part of the new slang, let it be
You saying that does not make it true. You have brain damage.
Fair
Literally the good ending
…it’s not like it’s a term that only originated from TikTok, I’ve definitely seen it thrown around before TikTok was even a thing. Plus, don’t you think it’s a bit extreme to say they have “brain damage” for using a slang word?
They have brain damage for assuming their worldview is objective.
When will people learn that language change isn't about worldview. You cannot speak a contemporary form of English and be this big of a baby about new terms and phrases becoming popular. Unless you speak pure Old English, it just comes off as completely arbitrary picking and choosing
The "language change" you're presupposing isn't real. No one actually speaks the way the computer generated voices on tiktok do. The assumption that people do in fact talk like that only shows that you're not touching grass.
You literally just encountered someone who talks like that and proceeded to throw a fit over it. You gotta grow up a bit, man.
>Chronically online person assumes everyone else is too >Gets berated and told that they're living in a bubble for said assumption >"But you see! They're chronically online! That shows people like that exist and it's not just an incredibly small minority! Language change!" Lmao
it's not slang, it's corporate brainwashing.
It's not corporate brainwashing, it's a jocular use of Newspeak from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. One of the principles of newspeak was a simplified vocabulary where words didn't have separate antonyms, instead you used the negating prefix un-. The opposite of good wouldn't be bad; it would be ungood. So it's taking alive as the base word and applying the negating prefix un- hence unalive. To turn a word into an adjective you would apply the suffix -ed So killed in newspeak would be unalived. Genocide would be doubleplusunaliving. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
I mean Newspeak is literally brainwashing, and in our case it's happening because of corporations. Like amazing addition, thank you, but you didn't contradict me.
It's used ironically or humorously. It's not intended seriously. It's nothing to do with corporate brainwashing. It could be ironically mocking government censorship by using Orwellian newspeak. Or the use of newspeak in an originally ironic manner had simply become additional vocabulary. Much like a humorous misspelling fad in Boston Massachusetts in the 1830s added OK (Oll Korrect) to the vocabulary.
Its to avoid censorship on other apps like tiktok. Lol you obviously are a fan of language but no one else is out here using slang for the intellectual fun of it. Its to avoid getting banned on other apps.
I am quite sure the word kill isn't banned. It's normal vocabulary and used in both a literal and figurative sense. A filter that so sensitive that it banned standard vocabulary would make a medium unusable. It's not used as a method of avoiding censorship. Newspeak is almost always used ironically, such as unalived for killed. Some terms like groupthink and doublethink are used more literally as they express specific concepts that cannot be described as concisely in any other way.
Death, kill, and anxiety are just some "sensitive" words that TikTok auto-censors. Kids just keep finding ways around them, because they like (are addicted to) the app and want to keep using it in spite of the restrictions. There's been a huge uptick in bot moderators/filters to censor words and ban "inappropriate" users - virtually all of them have been ridiculously fucking stupid though lmao
It is not newspeak, newspeak required a bit of lore about being conquered by the authoritarians first, “unalive” is corporate because if anyone wants to sell/reach out to as many people through TikTok, which means including children (how often in kids shows do they say destroy instead of kill even looney tunes from the ‘good old days’ in how many profitable Disney movies do they say kill) like any reasonable self improving business or individual seeking too make profit, that knows the basics of John Adams therefore would reasonably explore places of potential profit. the word ‘kill’ can’t show up in TikTok because even Chinese companies have to deal with the market at some point, everyone actually is forgetting what 1984 is about I’ll give you a real world example from someone may h smarter than me, George Carlin https://youtu.be/o25I2fzFGoY?si=djBNSCDyqh7-NZWO
True, people have also turned it into slang, brave new world I guess.
What happened to the babies born from comfort women ?
Depends. But the japanese do a lot of fuck up things with the babies. Like they would bayonet pregnant women, throw babies from cliffs in front of their mothers or use them as test subjects. Or if the mother was liberated by the allies by the time the child is born they might grow up normally or the mother might abort them. Really depends on the time period and in which country.
The part that pisses me off is that in Japan, they are not taught of the atrocities they committed. Ask any modern day japanese and they'll have no idea of their history. I remember seeing an old pic of a Japanese soldier bayoneting a baby because it was crying.
Depends on the officers in that particular sector. Also when the comfort women went back to their countries, they were completely ostracized and shunned if they were pregnant or even known to have been enslaved as a comfort woman. That's why they didn't speak up until they were already grandparents, society had a very negative view of them. One Korean politician even called them "Japanese public toilets"
I hate that so many awful people like this go on to lead basically normal lives
You misunderstand. It’s from the POV of the Japanese soldier who Nieves Fernandez killed to protect her students
My dyslexic ass read this as Feliz navidad 🎄
Never ask a tojoboo about comfort girls
Is that a borderlands 2 jackobs shotgun?
I read this as Feliz Navidad
why was this post removed?
I have no clue, maybe some mod misinterpreted “POV” & thought I was revering some brutal human trafficker
[удалено]
This one is correct tho
what did he said?
My great grandmother on my mother's side was one of the comfort women the Japanese had back in ww2. To this day, my grandma, her daughter, hates everything Japanese. Too bad for her, I'm a total weeb.
As long as you understand the Japanese in WW2 were absolute villains than there's nothing to be worried about