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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by MockObject on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:17AM (#34067984)
"Latinx" also proves that the motivation is grounded in bad faith, for if someone were truly offended by the gendered term "Latino", they would surely use "Latin" instead of creating an ostentatious monstrosity that is totally alien to both English and Spanish.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:38AM (#34068334)
Or, like the people who came up with :-), lmfao, wtf, l33t, pwned!!!111!1 and similar internet shortcuts, they were communicating in a text only medium and didn't need to worry about pronunciation?
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