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Ladies 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

Ladies 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 4y 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 4y ago
  As 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 4y ago
  Latinx 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 4y ago
    Which imperialists? The Spanish? The Portuguese? The British?
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foogazi 4y ago
I 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"
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  Do you honestly think people that are busy dealing with real problems have the time to be concerned with such synthetic bullshit argument? People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that.
  - hotpotamus 4y ago
    Then you've run out of real problems and now have time to focus on this issue? Welcome to the top of the Maslow hierarchy.
  - foogazi 4y ago
    > People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that. perhaps - but not everyone is in that position. Isn’t that the point of Maslow’s hierarchy?
- surgical_fire 4y ago
  > Most men would object to being called "latina", but women are supposed to be ok being grouped with "latino", go figure It's not that women are "ok" about being called "latinos". In their language, this word refers to all people, irrespective of gender. In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them.
  - foogazi 4y ago
    > In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them. Disagree If you have a group of male citizens you call them “ciudadanos” If you have a group of female citizens you call them “ciudadanas” If 1 man joins the group now it’s “ciudadanos” Some people have advocated for “ciudadanes” as a gender neutral plural of citizens

namdnay 4y 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 4y ago
As 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 4y ago
Latinx 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 4y ago
  Which imperialists? The Spanish? The Portuguese? The British?
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foogazi 4y ago

I 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"

29athrowaway 4y ago
Do you honestly think people that are busy dealing with real problems have the time to be concerned with such synthetic bullshit argument? People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  Then you've run out of real problems and now have time to focus on this issue? Welcome to the top of the Maslow hierarchy.
- foogazi 4y ago
  > People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that. perhaps - but not everyone is in that position. Isn’t that the point of Maslow’s hierarchy?
surgical_fire 4y ago
> Most men would object to being called "latina", but women are supposed to be ok being grouped with "latino", go figure It's not that women are "ok" about being called "latinos". In their language, this word refers to all people, irrespective of gender. In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them.
- foogazi 4y ago
  > In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them. Disagree If you have a group of male citizens you call them “ciudadanos” If you have a group of female citizens you call them “ciudadanas” If 1 man joins the group now it’s “ciudadanos” Some people have advocated for “ciudadanes” as a gender neutral plural of citizens