"Filipino Monkey" Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

This is getting wierder and wierder

So with Navy officials unsure and the Iranians accusing the U.S. of fabrications, whose voice was it? In recent years, American ships operating in the Middle East have had to contend with a mysterious but profane voice known by the ethnically insulting handle of “Filipino Monkey,” likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps on the net shouting insults and jabbering vile epithets.

Navy women — a helicopter pilot hailing a tanker, for example — who are overheard on the radio are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment.

Several Navy ship drivers interviewed by Navy Times are raising the possibility that the Monkey, or an imitator, was indeed featured in that video.

Rick Hoffman, a retired captain who commanded the cruiser Hue City and spent many of his 17 years at sea in the Gulf was subject to the renegade radio talker repeatedly, often without pause during the so-called “Tanker Wars” of the late 1980s.

“For 25 years there’s been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats,” he said. “He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship.”

And the Monkey has stamina.

Comments

[John of gCaptain]

I did a story on this for our Maritime News Blog gCaptain. One reader comment was especially informative:

"The term ‘monkey’ is considered exceedingly derogatory by Filipinos. The line from an old American song: “The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga is often trotted out as an example of a racial slur (Wrongly as it happens). I know of a bookstore clerk who nearly got punched after, quite innocently, referring to a mischievous Filipino child as ‘a little Monkey’.

I have no doubt this tale will be picked up by the press here and blown out of proportions.

Yes, Filipinos are oversensitive, I’ll admit that, but this sort of bilge goes beyond the pale."

You can read the entire post wrtten by a ship's Captain here: The Filipino Monkey Strikes Again

[Juan Dela Cruz]

I am a filipino. How come my ehtnic race coined to a monkey? Now my people are being insulted. Philippines and US has a close tie but with this more Filipinos will hate the Americans. No one believes US news anymore. They wanted to sell Saudi weapons so they fabricate threat stories in the region. Saudi & Iran will not engage in a war. The US is the one creating and building a case to engage in a war. Philippines was also a victim of American lies. The Philippine-American war was all lies and deceptions. They wanted to occupy our lands and after sucking its resources they bail out. From now on my sentiments are to Iran. I hope Iran build a nuclear bomb to create havock and destroy USA. The term 'Filipino Monkey" is a serious insult to my ethnic group. Filipinos are not fond of saying sorry, if we hate someone we mean eat till death.

[Juan Dela Cruz]

I am a filipino. How come my ehtnic race coined to a monkey? Now my people are being insulted. Philippines and US has a close tie but with this more Filipinos will hate the Americans. No one believes US news anymore. They wanted to sell Saudi weapons so they fabricate threat stories in the region. Saudi & Iran will not engage in a war. The US is the one creating and building a case to engage in a war. Philippines was also a victim of American lies. The Philippine-American war was all lies and deceptions. They wanted to occupy our lands and after sucking its resources they bail out. From now on my sentiments are to Iran. I hope Iran build a nuclear bomb to create havock and destroy USA. The term 'Filipino Monkey" is a serious insult to my ethnic group. Filipinos are not fond of saying sorry, if we hate someone we mean it till death.

[Arthur Dizon]

I am presently working outside my home country (Philippines) in order to earn money sufficient for my family needs. This is the only way I have for the moment to provide them financially. Skilled enough to be employed, yet I need to go far to give the good future for my family, and for my country as well...
I was very upset and very offended when i saw the news where "Filipino Monkey" was mentioned. I'm not familiar with those american naval terminologies, but perhaps THEY don't mean it literally. I've got pity to myself and the rest of my countrymen because our "race" (Filipino) is being used as a DESCRIPTION OF A MONKEY. If the term Filipino Monkey pertains to a code, somebody, anything or whatsoever, it is not good for me and my countrymen!

[Former Sailor]

I remember this insulting banter from 1987 and 1991 during my time in the Persian Gulf while in the US Navy. Typically it was a male falsetto voice with a lot of derogatory and annoying banter on the channels that he should not have been on. I doubt it was someone of Filipino decent, but usually it was someone who spoke English as a second language. And it was always trying to incite people and get a reaction from them, sometimes successfully. Doubtful it is just one person. It has been around for years (search the net) but is just coming into the public internet consciousness with the actions currently going on. Apparently it is one of the first radio "trolls" (look it up - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_Monkey) that the internet is now famous for in forums and flamewars. If your Filipino, do not be offended, as it has gone way past just being a derogatory slur that was the original intent. I've met many fine people from the Philippines and it is no reflection on you at all.

[Concerned Filipino]

If this mythical guy was called an Iranian Monkey or American Monkey, I bet people from both nations would be swarming over the net by now calling for boycotts here and there or maybe even worse than boycott. So don't blame us Filipinos if we pour over our sentiments on this issue as we see it as a clear case of discrimination from our point of view. All we demand here is respect.

[Aliwan Bakes]

I am Filipino and I am not insulted at all. I know what I am, what I can do and what my people are capable of. With all due respect to monkeys and Lee Kwan Yew's opinion of Filipinos, we have earned a place on this planet and that can never be taken away. Put another way, we have not butchered people, we have not engaged in deadly ethnic wars, we have not stolen from other peoples' resources, we have not abused others and we have not imposed wars on others. We are intelligent, hardworking, beautiful, friendly, humble and willing to live with the rest of the world. We make no bones about skin color and have not barred people from entering restaurants or clubs just because they have different skin colors or profess different religions. Sure we have our petty quarrels and have we have shown political violence during elections and apparently a cheating president but these are not exclusive to us. So to my fellow Filipinos, do not fret. To the rest of the world, it is all right for you to dwell on names in the animal kingdom but to me, your attempt to denigrate us and assign a lower value to our being than you would to yourself is insulting only to monkeys and yourselves in the process. I attended an Ivy League law school and found that the level of intelligence and depth of analysis in the classes that I attended are no different from those I have been exposed to in the Philippine schools that I attended. I went to the Naval Academy for a seminar on the Iraq war and found many Filipino cadets or cadets of Filipino descent holding their own against their American counterparts. I have had meaningful discussions with brilliant students from all continents and I never felt insecure and I am sure none of my friends felt that anyone of us in such dialogues was in any way inferior to the rest. The only lesser beings in my opinion are those who attack you for what you are and not what you stand for. So it is all right but I think anyone who calls us monkeys should apoplogise to the primates. They may not be as forgiving.

[bucketheadd]

i think everyone is missing the point
nobody is calling Filipinos monkeys. 1 person or a few people are using the term Filipino Monkey as a hame or handle like in CB talk
and that person or persons is saying derogatory things to anyone that hears them
so lighten up abit and read the story again and maybe you will understand

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