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> Latinx It's hard to take anyone who uses this term seriously. Latinos can't even pronounce it or care for it.

• jaywalk 4y ago
  Latinos almost universally despise it. It was made up by non-Hispanic leftists because... I don't know, something about not forcing gender? It's utterly ridiculous.
  • scarmig 4y ago
    If we insist on mutilating Spanish to satisfy intellectual fads, something like "Latine" would be better. The broader issue is that having grammatical noun classes/gender serves an important purpose: not enforcing the patriarchy, but instead disambiguating different words and antecedents (basically adding an extra bit or two of information to a word).
  • whatevenisthat 4y ago
  • googlryas 4y ago
    Couple this with the fact that the whole "Latin[aeox]" terms aren't even inclusive to begin with. They are generally are used to broadly describe "a person from central/south America", except they are entirely Euro-centric, as if Latinos showed up to uninhabited open land. More than likely, the Qʼeqchiʼ person from Guatemala, who barely speaks Spanish, who has 100% Mayan ancestry, doesn't self identify as "Latino".
• IshKebab 4y ago
  It's easy to pronounce. Rhymes with womxn.
• goatlover 4y ago
  NPR uses it. I turn it off every-time I hear them say it.