Turns out this “You’re rude” debacle is a matryoshka doll of epistemic violence. Aya—my colleague from SocSci Dept—reminded me all the way from the Netherlands about a message I wrote for our English majors back in 2015 (!) Here’s part of it:
Not surprised by the results of @richardjuan ‘s poll on Instagram. BUT, let me say it: CEBUANO is a LANGUAGE, not a dialect. To the less-informed, uninformed or other followers who lack access to information, here’s an easy way to understand it (a thread)