Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by neither_color on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:05PM
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There is a zero percent chance that a latino gang banger would call themselves latinx. It's a word invented by Americans for a specific context but it's been rejected by the Royal Spanish Academy, which guides all Spanish curriculums in all Spanish speaking countries. It's also unpronounceable to a monolingual native Spanish speaker anyways. Neither consonant cluster exists in Spanish: "latinks" and "latin-ecks" both need a vowel around the k to sound natural.
It's ok to say latino, it's not a non-inclusive word. Grammatical gender is not tied to gender identity, grammatical gender is just an arbitrary designation to make word endings complement each other and "sound right". German has 3 genders, Spanish has two. You could call them A words and B words, Red words and blue words, and it wouldn't change their usage. Spanish speakers don't actually think books are boys and tables are girls.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:57PM
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Seems like bikeshedding on an irrelevant tangent. I'm trying to do whatever this gender-sensitive thing is that I'll get crap for if I do or don't do. Next, the safety pins will call Romance languages sexist for having gendered words.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by neither_color on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:24PM
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Sorry I probably wrote too much I didn't want to be that person who just angrily points something out without explaining why. Some might take it that when a Spanish speaker opposes latinx they're opposing LGBTQ and I wanted to clear that up.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by JohnWhigham on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:26PM
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Getting yelled at on Twitter by white liberals for not using a term they invented isn't a good enough reason to do something.
Latino.
Amazing that you're downvoted. Latino is in fact what Spanish speaking people use, and they despise how woke gringos are trying to modify their language.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by reaperducer on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:55PM
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"Latinx" (pronounced "Latin-X", like "Malcom X") is a very common term among people who think they're better than other people, and Chicago politicians.
It's supposed to be an all-encompassing term for "Laino" and "Latina," but only serves to divide people further. Like almost every other ethnic rebranding of the last ten years.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by joshuaissac on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:09PM
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A large majority of Latino people believe that "Latinx" should not be used to refer to them, according to Pew Research.
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
Also a term used by almost no actual Latinos.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:59PM
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That's cool. I have no idea what words to use these days, it will offend someone.
The irony is, translating to IRL, I apparently discovered I have this semi-employed, "macho" no-shirt neighbor who accused me of being racist for asking if they had an entrance keyfob to prevent tailgating into an access-controlled apartment building. Then they talked about all the (nonexistent) "cameras" around, began recording me (for what, I don't know), using racist slurs, and tried to start a physical fight (they're half my weight, like a yappy chihuahua). I'm wondering if they're schizophrenic and narcissistic, in addition to appearing like a victim-mentality crybully crybaby. My point is perhaps people are taking their online behaviors into the real world.
PS: You should've heard what Latinx gangbangers called me when I was a kid. I never got beaten-up because I was bigger than all of them, but I learned the finer points of swearing in Spanish. :) I understand the tall blade of grass gets clipped so I don't take any of it personally.