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Lmao. It's true. This is why I don't have identifiable social media and don't use it even anonymously except for limited purposes. Cyberdisinhibitionism is stro
by airhead969 5y ago
Lmao. It's true. This is why I don't have identifiable social media and don't use it even anonymously except for limited purposes. Cyberdisinhibitionism is strongest when there are no repercussions to poor behavior, too much anonymity, flame/troll/instigators/touchy comments, and no manifestation of the person on the receiving-end. It's basically a sewer factory factory with a teaspoon of sugar sprinkled-in. I think it proves that either most people are disengaged and/or the most vocal people are the worst. (Proving your point). Maybe there should be a cost to post that increases proportional to increasing frequency too.
The irony is, translating to IRL, I apparently discovered I have this semi-employed, "macho" no-shirt neighbor who accused me of being racist for asking if they had an entrance keyfob to prevent tailgating into an access-controlled apartment building. Then they talked about all the (nonexistent) "cameras" around, began recording me (for what, I don't know), using racist slurs, and tried to start a physical fight (they're half my weight, like a yappy chihuahua). I'm wondering if they're schizophrenic and narcissistic, in addition to appearing like a victim-mentality crybully crybaby. My point is perhaps people are taking their online behaviors into the real world.
PS: You should've heard what Latinx gangbangers called me when I was a kid. I never got beaten-up because I was bigger than all of them, but I learned the finer points of swearing in Spanish. :) I understand the tall blade of grass gets clipped so I don't take any of it personally.
- slothtrop 5y agoLatino.
- reaperducer 5y ago"Latinx" (pronounced "Latin-X", like "Malcom X") is a very common term among people who think they're better than other people, and Chicago politicians. It's supposed to be an all-encompassing term for "Laino" and "Latina," but only serves to divide people further. Like almost every other ethnic rebranding of the last ten years.
- joshuaissac 5y agoA large majority of Latino people believe that "Latinx" should not be used to refer to them, according to Pew Research. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/ https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
- k_pres 5y agoAlso a term used by almost no actual Latinos.
- airhead969 5y agoThat's cool. I have no idea what words to use these days, it will offend someone.
- JI00912 5y agoThose someones nearly always seem to be a small group of angry white people on twitter and rarely the groups supposedly offended.
- throwkeep 5y agoAmazing that you're downvoted. Latino is in fact what Spanish speaking people use, and they despise how woke gringos are trying to modify their language.
- neither_color 5y agoThere is a zero percent chance that a latino gang banger would call themselves latinx. It's a word invented by Americans for a specific context but it's been rejected by the Royal Spanish Academy, which guides all Spanish curriculums in all Spanish speaking countries. It's also unpronounceable to a monolingual native Spanish speaker anyways. Neither consonant cluster exists in Spanish: "latinks" and "latin-ecks" both need a vowel around the k to sound natural. It's ok to say latino, it's not a non-inclusive word. Grammatical gender is not tied to gender identity, grammatical gender is just an arbitrary designation to make word endings complement each other and "sound right". German has 3 genders, Spanish has two. You could call them A words and B words, Red words and blue words, and it wouldn't change their usage. Spanish speakers don't actually think books are boys and tables are girls.
- airhead969 5y agoSeems like bikeshedding on an irrelevant tangent. I'm trying to do whatever this gender-sensitive thing is that I'll get crap for if I do or don't do. Next, the safety pins will call Romance languages sexist for having gendered words. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- neither_color 5y agoSorry I probably wrote too much I didn't want to be that person who just angrily points something out without explaining why. Some might take it that when a Spanish speaker opposes latinx they're opposing LGBTQ and I wanted to clear that up.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoGetting yelled at on Twitter by white liberals for not using a term they invented isn't a good enough reason to do something.