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ergfdgs
7y ago
I upvoted your reply to my "Impose yourself" comment. Specifically the "Choose my battles". I get it. I live in the mid-West. Most people haven't heard the neologism. My parents (well educated, sophisticated people)
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ergfdgs
7y ago
You're Latin American! Impose the right terminology! This is cultural colonialism from the, typically WASP, urban elite. Who possibly finds Spanish's gendered pronouns annoying? How many are them are native Spanish speakers? And
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ergfdgs
7y ago
I read a recent poll that 90% of Latin Americans don't like the term.
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ergfdgs
7y ago
As a fellow Latin American, I find "LatinX" offensive. English already has a gender neutral adjective to refer to us, Latin, and therefore Latin American. LatinX means you've internalized the colonialization of white "li