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Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m... by amluto on Saturday June 05, 2021 @04:58PM (#27408412)
As a native speaker of American English, I find Latinx to be either unpronounceable or lacking in an obviously correct pronunciation. Is it La-tinks? Or Latin-exks? The natural English construction of an adjective derived from “latin” that lacks gender would he just “latin”, not “latinx”, as English doesn’t have gendered adjectives in the first place.

(I don’t really understand how “Latina/Latino” came to be used for this purpose to begin with.)

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Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m... by mkd1964 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:21AM (#27482070)
I think it's just more political correctness gone wild. The vast majority of Spanish speakers in America are from Mexico but it somehow became derogatory to refer to them as "Mexican". How is that any different than calling somebody a Puerto Rican or a Brazilian? It simply denotes their place of origin.
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