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It's an English term for Latinos that non-Latinos in the U.S. use to signal inclusiveness (usually gender inclusiveness these days, but its history includes som
by CobrastanJorji 4y ago
It's an English term for Latinos that non-Latinos in the U.S. use to signal inclusiveness (usually gender inclusiveness these days, but its history includes some LGBT inclusiveness as well). You see it a lot in corporate emails about awareness and sometimes in colleges and academia. It's mildly disliked by several parts of the political spectrum for a surprisingly diverse number of reasons, but it's generally well meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx.
- aetherane 4y agoOddly the analogous change isn't applied to filipino/filipina
- bewaretheirs 4y ago"Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?” https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/many-latinos-say-latinx-offends-or-bothers-them-here-s-ncna1285916 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/many-latinos-say-latin...
- scarface74 4y agoYes just like I as a Black person have to grit my teeth about all of the DI&E initiatives where we change branches from “master” to “main” and don’t use the term “KMS Master Key” because it’s “offensive” when I’m not aware of anyone of any color giving it a second thought.
- throwup 4y agoThat's the subject of one of the top HN posts of all time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854 I like to think I'm doing my small part by not going back and renaming branches in all my old repos despite github prodding me to.
- bergenty 4y agoBecause feminism ruins everything.
- dang 4y agoWe've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. You can't do that here, regardless of which flavor you favor. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html