Re:Trans Netflix employees will stage walkout to protest Cha...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:27PM
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> Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this terminology whereas many people I talk to find it explicitly offensive that a bunch of foreigners think they get to rewrite their language.
Um, since when is American English (the language in which “Latinx”, as a neologism, has been introduced by that language’s speakers) “their” (Colombians’) language?
Or are Colombians upset that English-speaking Americans of Latin American descent are rewriting American English?
(That said, Latinx seems to be preferred as a self-label almost exclusively used by people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and used other than that almost exclusively by people to whom it does not apply as a label for others, so it is problematic as a general label linguistic and language ownership issues aside.)
Um, since when is American English (the language in which “Latinx”, as a neologism, has been introduced by that language’s speakers) “their” (Colombians’) language?
Or are Colombians upset that English-speaking Americans of Latin American descent are rewriting American English?
(That said, Latinx seems to be preferred as a self-label almost exclusively used by people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and used other than that almost exclusively by people to whom it does not apply as a label for others, so it is problematic as a general label linguistic and language ownership issues aside.)