Well, well, if this isn't an interesting development.
Looks like the Pocahontas LARP went over badly in his cadre. I wonder what that struggle session looked like. I doubt Elliot put his jaw on the line to defend his fellow "consent accidenter"
We know from reading between the lines in the tweets other troons made about Phil's fundraiser to
move to DC avoid getting evicted that there's clearly been some strife between him and the other members of LFJ's little cabal. I could imagine something like the following scenario:
- Phil gets into an argument with one of the other trannies in some chat or meeting behind the scenes, and tries to play the "as a trans person of color" card for rhetorical leverage one too many times (since all of the other trannies in Elliot's circle besides Elliot himself are white).
- Other tranny gets fed up and demands that he explain exactly how he is a POC.
- Phil, put on the spot, waffles and gets called out for cultural appropriation. He subsequently walks back the "TPOC" claim.
- The only reason none of this is made public is to maintain a united front for Operation Drop Kiwi Farms.
Just speculation, mind you, but I bet those were the general contours.
He hasn't ever really explained why he thinks he's a POC; I think we all guessed it was some kind of indigenous thing because he's been so vague about the whole it
Someone found a tweet of his from last year in which he seemed to be claiming to be Native:
Reading the wording again, I guess the "also" is a bit ambiguous -- it could be interpreted as "a cute TPOC who, in addition, is Native" rather than "a cute TPOC who, like me, is Native". The latter reading is why we all assumed he was claiming Native. If not, I have no idea what possible "POC" ethnic group he thinks he belongs to.
Personally, I'm leaning toward the theory that Phil actually was trying to claim, explicitly or implicitly, that he was Native American, but walked that back after being called out on it behind the scenes. He only has six tweets (out of 13.9K) containing "TPOC" and only four containing "BIPOC" as of today's date, so it's not like he's made it a central part of his online persona. Wouldn't be too hard to just not bring the matter up again and hope nobody remembers (although in that case you'd think he'd also delete his tweets, but noone ever claimed Phil's a genius).
This whole discussion made me curious, so I did some digging. A search of Phil's X/Twitter account shows that the first time he used any of the terms "of color", "TPOC", or "BIPOC" in reference to himself seems to have been on
October 12, 2022 (
archive):
The last time was on
June 7, 2023 (
archive):
In all of his account's history, he's only ever used those terms between those dates, apart from one tweet in which the string "of color" appears in an unrelated context. He's only used the word "native" in that one tweet quoted above, and he's never once used the words "indigenous" or "Indian" on Twitter, at least in any tweets that haven't been deleted in the meanwhile. He had a brief period around March to May of this year when he started referring to himself as TPOC/BIPOC more frequently (which is why we even noticed it here in the first place), until that last tweet in June.
I also tried searching for "family", "heritage", and "background", but he's only ever used those terms in the context of his family's religious background (strict Southern Baptist, apparently). So, in all the time since he first created his account back in April 2011, he's never even hinted at any sort of non-White ethnic background until last year.
Again, just speculation, but I'm guessing Phil, like so many basic-bitch white SJWs before him, simply latched onto the idea of claiming to be Native in order to get some extra oppression points after he fell in with LFJ and progressive online tranny circles, and, like so many before him, got called the fuck out for it when he pushed the LARP too far. Because he's an ignorant Okie who had no prior experience to the ways of the extremely online social justice set, I'm guessing he simply didn't imagine, in his naivety, that anybody would dig too much into his claims.
That's my theory, anyway.