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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by tempnow987 on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:17PM (#31124738)
LatinX is complicated. If (white person) corrects someone of hispanic origin that using the word latino is offensive and they should use latinx - I've gotten some pushback. It may be best to just let the folks who care about getting to Latinx hash it out themselves. I've started seeing folx as well instead of folks. Was curious about the offensiveness of folks?
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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by skrbjc on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:29PM (#31124966)
Folx is just a way to signal that you are woke. Since they have pushed folks for everything and co-called "normies" are using it now, they need to go a step further to make sure you know they are part of the special group.
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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by xg15 on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:29PM (#31124954)
Wasn't the x originally a gender thing? As in "folks" is gender neutral while "folx" actively acknowledges non-heteronormative genders.
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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by tempnow987 on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:44PM (#31125265)
Thank you, very interesting. I'd always taken gender neutral to include non-heteronormative genders. But I started seeing things like folx - confusing because I hadn't understood the word to be gendered or only gender normative.
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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by dane-pgp on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:11PM (#31125742)
> Thank you

Don't you mean "Thanx"?

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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by tempnow987 on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:14PM (#31126685)
I think it's a bit unique to folkx because instead of using gendered language (hey guys) folks have moved to hey folks. So I've only seen it on things like that (gender neutral references to other people).
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