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>3% of US Latino adults use the term "Latinx". 20% do not use it, and 76% have never heard of it. Who is using this term if it is not people who it is ostensib
by remarkEon 5y ago
>3% of US Latino adults use the term "Latinx". 20% do not use it, and 76% have never heard of it.
Who is using this term if it is not people who it is ostensibly used to describe? I can venture a guess.
- HelloNurse 5y agoBut who are "US Latino adults" to begin with? This kind of statistic is based on an egregious confusion between ethnicity and citizenship, familiarity with languages, "communities" and subcultures. Labeling people (particularly other people) is problematic in itself. "Latinx" is a sophisticated word from and for sophisticated people (such as the mentioned LGBT activists, who are often ready to adopt neutral replacements of masculine and feminine words); its usage should be considered an indicator of such sophistication (do you find it proper or silly?) and social contexts (who would you call "Latinx"? What would they think of you if you did?), all quite orthogonal to people's identity.
- ummonk 5y agoAre you using "sophisticated" as another word for "elites"?
- HelloNurse 5y agoCulturally sophisticated, enough to care about such things. But I suspect there are many people who consider anyone smarter than them "elites" regardless of their actual social standing.
- jmcz 5y agoAll of these meaningless labels were given to us by the so-called "elites" to keep us distracted... that same distraction is what allows of the continued manufacturing of consent.
- yorwba 5y agoI haven't seen it used much, so "a handful of people" is also an option.