It’s extremely cringe how many people on hexbear turn into chuds over the term “latinx”.
just shut the fuck up and use inclusive language. bunch of assholes turning into transphobic racist boomers the moment “latinx” pops up.
Latinx is not about eliminating the concept of gender from the language, just when referencing groups of people with multiple gender identities.
Case in point:
https://twitter.com/Jminguero/status/1577297805382647811
Badempanada also did a video on this
tldw; it's a home-grown thing in spanish by spanish speakers that is pretty widely used to make the language more inclusive. the primary opposition to its use in those countries are chuds.
“latine is better, thusly I can therefore mock latinx” :speech-r::stupidpol:
use latine as well, yeah. lots of native speakers who are queer prefer the term Latine since it’s closer to being grammatically correct and fits within sentences structure easier. latinx came first so it’s still in use in a lot of countries and communities. Use both terms and eventually one will fade out.
Complaining about latinx at this point is boring and chud tier. When you do it you’re complaining about inclusion and alienating a lot of the people who use that term.
If you’re white especially, complaining about it is also a clear virtue signal that you’re racist + queerphobic and most people will assume that. It’s literal stupidpol cracker fodder.
stop tripping over yourselves to be racist the moment you think you can use “it’s a lib idpol thing” as an excuse. It’s extremely obvious what you’re doing either intentionally or because you have unexamined reactionary brainworms.
this piss baby stupidpol cohort is not a majority on hexbear, just an annoyingly loud clique of users.
If this applies to you and you feel called out: just adapt how you’re thinking about it and move on. We all have maggots in our skulls, you’re only a bad person if you leave them in there once they're pointed out.
It’s only seemingly controversial in online spaces. You will look like a bigoted clown if you start complaining about “latinx” in an offline leftist space.
I also never said it was simple or any of the other stuff in your comment. Language adapts over time and is not static. That’s good. The term being used will also change. That is also fine.
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i was never against the word but i agree i had a bad take. i guess i come from a place that has a very weird colonial relationship with the US and sometimes those who are fundamentally reactionary dress their rhetoric leftist and anti-imperialist language making it really easy for people to fall for their bullshit. You’re right, they’re just chuds.
Context: I originally wrote this as a comment to a post that was correctly removed by the mods tor being racist bait.
I want to have this as a resource to link the next time some dingus comes in with their fedora to shit on “teh sjw latinxlgbtqcia”.
It’s exhausting to see this show up on Hexbear when I know we can all do better. It is :reddit-logo: level bullshit.
As an aside, if you’re really only a contrarian, shouldn’t you be going with the phrase that pisses off racists and fash?
The only difference between folks and folx is that folx implies the pronunciation of the l. As a vehement "fewer sounds is better for common words" I am pro-folks. But like if someone writes folx as an effort to be demonstratively inclusive that's fine too.
it's not a huge deal but it's very :liberalism: to me as a "them"
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Badempanada did a video on this
tldw; it's a home-grown thing in spanish by spanish speakers that is pretty widely used to make the language more inclusive
hadn’t seen this before, thanks for linking. I’ll add it to the post :07:
I'm from a northeastern US city with a relatively large Puerto Rican population, so I'm a little surprised I've never seen this before. I think I'll wait a little while and see if it catches on.
Never seen Latinx? I've seen it, I just don't have any experience with the groups that use either the word latin or not. They practically don't exist here so I have no idea.
I'm actually shocked to hear that. I've only heard it from people in the Capitol city that studied abroad in the US or Spain. Unless you're not from Spain.
Not from Spain, literally never hear the word Latin either. Anyone from Spain says they're Spanish and they get treated as white, I've literally never heard of race brought up in the context of Spanish people over here ever. I've seen it in American media and from Americans online though, never here in europe or from europeans however. I've also only ever heard the word "hispanic" used in reference to south and north american people, not to people from Spain itself.
I don't mean anything by it of course. It just makes me uniquely ignorant of the topic at a level that honestly just leaves me with complete cultural confusion as it's so far outside any experience. It's hard to describe?
No I get it. We typically use Latin where I live to describe people living in Latin America. That's it. Americans began to turn it into a race thing and it's stuck with them since. It's a huge pet peeve of ours that overlooks the great diversity our countries share.
Americans began to turn it into a race thing and it’s stuck with them since
Fucking wild that Americans artificially defined "race" by the colour of one's skin, then go on to say that someone from the Dominican Republic with African ancestry, and someone from Argentina with European ancestry, are from the same Latin or Hispanic "race" because they speak the same language and share a few common cultural things. Just completely contradicting themselves to have an excuse to hate on anyone different.
Something's really wrong with the colonial brainworms over there.
If you think that's bad, Arabs are technically white per the US Census, but good luck trying to convince your average dipshit Arabs aren't brown people.
It like. Shouldn't be a thing at all?
Obviously it is and undoing that is now a nightmare. But it's weird. From my perspective it's perplexing given we don't do the race thing with Spanish people at all around the various european countries. Maybe some fringe of weird Spanish hating fash do but I've never seen them.
Perplexing. This is how I want to feel about all race topics to be honest. I want future humans to one day look back on this period and feel the way I do about this. Just completely confused.
hmmmm perhaps when I'm talking online I will use Latinx and when I'm talking to my coworkers I will continue using the terms they use to refer to their group.
odds are is online is the only place youll need to use either word
I don't think I've ever heard of this before, or "latine" that someone mentioned below. Are "latin" and "Hispanic" not already gender neutral? I know neither are particularly accurate descriptors.
Latin and Hispanic are both pretty outdated and often inaccurate terms. My student from Mexico whose parents spoke an indigenous language was neither Latin nor Hispanic, but would be considered Latinx/Latine
Ohshit, a latina lady knows something about her own culture, who knew?
The comments in this thread are so :lmayo: it hurts
is there any reason to prefer latinx over latine or vice versa? other than that latine looks a lot more like a word, i mean
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It’s extremely cringe how many people on hexbear turn into chuds over the term “Linux”.
just shut the fuck up and use free software. bunch of assholes turning into M!cro$oft shill boomers the moment “Linux” pops up.
🤔 I saw 64 comments and assumed there was was more shit posting down here, but actually it's just me that's not mindfully engaging in this pretty decent post
Question: Given that Spanish is spoken in many places with radically different histories and linguistic adaptations, is latinx preferred in certain places vs latine, or is the breakdown fairly homogeneous?
Latinx looks like it has more uses in South America. Central America uses Latine a lot more.
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