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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:49AM (#27316852)
Lmao. It's true. This is why I don't have identifiable social media and don't use it even anonymously except for limited purposes. Cyberdisinhibitionism is strongest when there are no repercussions to poor behavior, too much anonymity, flame/troll/instigators/touchy comments, and no manifestation of the person on the receiving-end. It's basically a sewer factory factory with a teaspoon of sugar sprinkled-in. I think it proves that either most people are disengaged and/or the most vocal people are the worst. (Proving your point). Maybe there should be a cost to post that increases proportional to increasing frequency too.

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.

Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by neither_color on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:05PM (#27317896)
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 (#27318513)
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 (#27318817)
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 (#27318848)
Getting yelled at on Twitter by white liberals for not using a term they invented isn't a good enough reason to do something.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by slothtrop on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:36PM (#27317499)
Latino.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by throwkeep on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:08PM (#27317929)
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 (#27317760)
"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 (#27317955)
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...

Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by k_pres on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:12PM (#27317995)
Also a term used by almost no actual Latinos.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by airhead969 on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:59PM (#27318529)
That's cool. I have no idea what words to use these days, it will offend someone.
Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by JI00912 on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:38PM (#27319613)
Those someones nearly always seem to be a small group of angry white people on twitter and rarely the groups supposedly offended.