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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by spritefs on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:50PM (#34041212)
Also note that Latino is a Spanish word, Latinx is obviously an English word. So we have non Latino white people telling Latinos to use an English word to refer to themselves

Definitely no colonial undertone to this dynamic whatsoever

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by lliamander on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:33PM (#34041887)
Worth noting that Latinos are themselves colonizers (well, at least of mixed ancestry). Latinx is still stupid and condescending, but framing it as colonialism is a bit reductive.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by el-salvador on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:27PM (#34042795)
In the early 1800s my Latin American country still had separate towns for different ethnicities, but today most of us are of mixed ancestry.

Does the modern definition of colonizer include mixed ancestry descendants too?

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by dmonitor on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:08PM (#34060222)
Considering how many white americans can cite 1/4-1/8 native american descent, yeah.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by andsoitis on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:47AM (#34062042)
Or maybe that proves the point that just because you had ancestors of a certain stripe does not mean you are of that kind.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by the_third_wave on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:49PM (#34042098)
Latinx is not even an English word, it is a made-up word. It is not language evolution but an attempt at language revolution which fortunately seems to have failed thus far. May it keep on failing and may it - and the multitude of other attempts - serve as a warning that Newspeak better remain in the dystopic novels from which it often seems to originate.