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> if you say "latinx" you likely grew up in a mansion I'm not a fan of the term either, but this is a wildly inaccurate generalization.
by grardb 3y ago
> if you say "latinx" you likely grew up in a mansion
I'm not a fan of the term either, but this is a wildly inaccurate generalization.
- Pigalowda 3y agoI've never heard any Hispanic say Latinx. I've seen it only on the internet being propagated by the usual suspects.
- drdeca 3y agoI’ve seen it on signs on campus.
- oboes 3y agoI've seen it used in my company's DEI training material. Which is funny because I'm working in Europe.
- 29athrowaway 3y ago"We purposely trained him wrong as a joke"
- mensetmanusman 3y agoReplace mansion with ‘wealthy progressive mostly-white district’ and it would be more accurate.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoLadies and gentlemen: the popularity of the the term "latinx" https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=latinx&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=latinx&h... Nobody uses it in Latin America. It's as latino as Taco Bell chalupa supreme. It's just another term from the keep-people-angry industrial complex. No latino I have ever known donates to the "latinx" organizations. So they don't represent the "latinx" voice but rather whoever is funding them.
- namdnay 3y ago> Nobody uses it in Latin America As silly as Latinx is, I don’t think that’s a valid argument. Nobody uses the term “Italian American” in Italy either. It’s quite specific to Latin-American populations in the USA
- 29athrowaway 3y agoAs I was saying, it's terminology used by people who had little to no connection to Latin America. People over there hate it and think it is the purest form of cringe. If you go to an authentic restaurant in the US with latinos in them and call them latinx they will probably either laugh at you or tell you that nobody uses that term, and that they would never identify themselves as latinx.
- EarlKing 3y agoLatinx is a term used by imperialists to tell their subject population how they should identify themselves. If you use it, you are implicitly identifying yourself as pro-imperialist. Don't be surprised when people react badly to that.
- namdnay 3y agoWhich imperialists? The Spanish? The Portuguese? The British?
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- foogazi 3y agoI see the use for it. Spanish is a gendered language and by convention it defaults to the masculine plural. Most men would object to being called "latina", but women are supposed to be ok being grouped with "latino", go figure Other efforts have been using the "e" vowel, "latines" Hispanic solves it but then not all Latinos are hispanic, we missed out on "Iberic"
- surgical_fire 3y agoEvery latino I know, men or women, completely despise this term. I only ever see it used by whites (typically from the US). Turns out that they really like their languages, and grammatical gender is a thing in Romance languages.