Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by remarkEon on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:47AM
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I thought about that, but the claim was that it came from that community, which is still hard to believe when it's a language construction that is really only common in elite white circles, evidenced by the polling data cited up-thread.
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Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by yorwba on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:57AM
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The polling data cited up-thread doesn't even include "elite white circles."
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by remarkEon on Saturday June 05, 2021 @02:04AM
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>3% of US Latino adults use the term "Latinx". 20% do not use it, and 76% have never heard of it.
Who is using this term if it is not people who it is ostensibly used to describe? I can venture a guess.
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by jmcz on Saturday June 05, 2021 @02:26AM
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All of these meaningless labels were given to us by the so-called "elites" to keep us distracted... that same distraction is what allows of the continued manufacturing of consent.
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by HelloNurse on Saturday June 05, 2021 @11:25AM
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But who are "US Latino adults" to begin with? This kind of statistic is based on an egregious confusion between ethnicity and citizenship, familiarity with languages, "communities" and subcultures. Labeling people (particularly other people) is problematic in itself.
"Latinx" is a sophisticated word from and for sophisticated people (such as the mentioned LGBT activists, who are often ready to adopt neutral replacements of masculine and feminine words); its usage should be considered an indicator of such sophistication (do you find it proper or silly?) and social contexts (who would you call "Latinx"? What would they think of you if you did?), all quite orthogonal to people's identity.
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by ummonk on Saturday June 05, 2021 @02:14PM
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Are you using "sophisticated" as another word for "elites"?
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m...
by HelloNurse on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:26AM
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Culturally sophisticated, enough to care about such things.
But I suspect there are many people who consider anyone smarter than them "elites" regardless of their actual social standing.