yup, struggle session time

edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)

edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma

  • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    It's literally not patronising! Who is saying they are patronised? Everyone I've met who takes issue with it and talks about the threat to the Spanish language is super reactionary, and then there are some who take issue with how awkward it is and hard to implement but come from a place of wanting to solve the issue of a gendered language we inherited from colonisers.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
      2·
      4 years ago

      I've read some stuff to the contrary and my Hispanic friends who don't like and think it's patronizing are definitely not reactionary, but granted this is all anecdotal. If somebody who identifies as Latinx wants to be called Latinx, then yeah that's what I'll call them. Ultimately it's not my place to say one way or another since I'm not part of the community, I just want to push back about those outside of the community so readily adopting the term.

      • gay [any]
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        4 years ago

        I'll have you know that Hispanic is in no way a replacement of Latine/Latinx/Latino. Brazilian people are also Latine and not included by the term Hispanic.