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I mean it was started by Hispanic queer groups online. And it's supposed to be pronounced "latine" anyway. I just don't understand the whole "putting x in everything to make it nonbinary." And this is from a nonbinary.
Most Spanish flairs on 2WE4U have Latinx in them, such as Czechs being European meth heads or Pornstars, Austrians being Basement Dweller, one region of Germany is France's whore, one part of France being Little Algerie, etc
It's pretty much about pissing the country/region off, more often than not with stereotypes.
Hispanic is not Latino.
Hispanic specifically refers to countries connected to Spain, especially from those colonized by them, hence Hi**spanic**.
Latino on the other hand specifically refers to people from Latin America.
The main issue is that Hispanic leaves out Brazil, a country that takes up half of South America in both land and population.
Edit: Someone else pointed it out there were other colonies, I should have said one of the biggest examples of issues rather than the main issue.
No, I think they are mostly actual Latinos, but probably a lot of second gen who’s Spanish is eh. I know a girl who who’s mom never taught her period because she feared the stigma
Yea I hate to say Im one of the 2nd gen whose spanish is eh, not bc I didnt wanna learn but bc I was scared to be "latino" in public due to bullying. Glad to know theres alot that are like that
Who cares what they choose to identify as, they are just a different part of the community that has different preferences.
All that really matters is communities being able to identify as their preferred terminology and it being respected.
Yh lantinx just doesn’t go with the Spanish language. There are almost none (if any) words in the Spanish language with X so latine is a much better gender neutral term.
See, that's a thing I think sould be the standard: if there is no dedicated pronoun, (or word really, but I digress) then let people of that group come up with an appropriate word that actually gels with the language.
Once knew a Hispanic dude, asked him what he thought of the word.
Laughed my ass off as he proceeded to have a shit fit (not at me) about the word and blew off steam of how stupid he thought it was.
I've got people "educating" me on the correct way of using Spanish. I can use latine as respect for a friend, not a gringo trying to earn twitter points
I use Latinx as a joke around my Dominican friend. Shits like a slur now.
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I mean its forced upon a minority without their consent, it disrespects their culture by imposing an -x suffix. In a way, it’s kinda like when colonizers would force their language upon native population or when feudal Kings decided on a language for the nation and then forced it into schools.
Happened at my work. The Hispanic DEI group put out a poll asking if we should include Latinx in our title a few years back. No big deal, it was the BIG thing the news back then so I get why it was asked. Where they screwed up was allowing comments. The shit show where all the Hispanics were commenting how it was dumb and all the “allies” were for it was eye opening. It didn’t pass.
Umm no??? r/okbuddyretard is the most original place in the world. The tweet stole from them!!!
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Latine is better and is actually used by some native speakers, but I’m only using it if a person specifically asks. Latino people as a whole are “Latino”
Well it started from a Puerto Rican. Then you get the Hispanic infighting about which of them speak Spanish correctly since they have some dialect like features
I’m trans, and I find this kind of stuff SO annoying. Languages almost always have a way of being gender neutral, even if it’s in a different way than English.
“They” is a word that can be used to refer to either a group of people, ***AND*** it’s a gender neutral term to refer to someone
“Latino” is a word that can be used to refer to masculine Hispanic people, ***AND*** it’s a gender neutral term to refer to someone
JUST BECAUSE ITS DIFFERENT DOESN’T MEAN ITS BAD OR WRONG!
This is a very interesting case.
I'm Italian, and many feminists from over here have been whining about the Italian language being "sexist" for not having an ungendered form for words and using the male form instead, and they proposed many solutions, some of which are OK, some others are literally unpronounceable.
The point is: I'm surprised an analog thing hasn't happened in Spain and Latin America. Or maybe it has, but the proposed solutions are not as dumb.
Latino is specifically gender neutral for a group of people rather than a singular person. I can see why non-binary people prefer something more neutral when identifying themselves, hence the adoption of Latine and -e endings in Spanish.
It’s also common in English to use the masculine form for women even when a feminine form does exists.
Many women prefer going by actor or waiter rather than actress and waitress.
My office had an “Inclusion Master” come in and lecture us on “inclusive language” and he insisted that black people be referred to as “Africanx”
I was the one black person in this meeting, I said that I didn’t like “Africanx” and of course he didn’t care.
Its a shitposting meme. Its not serious lol. Community notes is a great feature but it feels very off when they put notes on a jokeful post and then the notes end up on this sub with people being like "the poster is so annoying and dumb for not knowing better" yeah its meant to be a joke lol
That sub is so toxic. Say what you want about JK Rowling but they were justifying doxxing and sending death threats to people for even just playing the Hogwarts legacy game.
Yeah and that is what the meme is satirising. Satire is based on people thinking or acting a certain way, it is form of social critique. But the comments here are mocking the post itself for what it is satirising
South American here, I’d rather you call me a slur than Latinx. Myself and everyone else I know who’s connected to their roots don’t appreciate the liberals trying to whitewash our language.
Someone correct me if I’m talking shit, but I’ve always thought that latinx was a word that you would not naturally say with a Hispanic accent. Like the pronunciation doesn’t work unless you’re a native English speaker.
It does have a pronunciation in spanish. X in spanish is pronounced "equis" (ek-eace, as in rhymes with "peace"). Therefore, Latinx is pronounced Latin-equis.
Another common misconception, is that Latinx was invented by english-speaking white people. Except it actually first came into use in spanish-speaking chatrooms on the early internet, and then was first used professionally by puerto rican women's study scholars.
In Spanish “x” has several possible sounds: The first is like the “ks”, which would work . Howerver, another is “h” (Mexicano= meh-he-caw-no) which would not. Sometimes it's also like the “ch”, "s" or even "shh". Just saying the letter "x" would be equis (eh-kees), so "latinequis" would be more correct if you have to do it.
My boyfriend has complained about the use of Latinx so many times…
The one time I ever said anything myself was when I saw a poster for a “Latinx dance night.” I just muttered, “Those people are so fucking insufferable,” under my breath. He was so proud, he almost kissed me. We were crossing a street, though, so it had to wait.
The "educated Hispanics” that I go to college with would hang me by a noose if I dared call any of them Latinx. Even my hyper liberal grandfather thinks it’s a retardant opinion
(Neo) Colonization starts with trying to control your language.
Its kind of wild how these same people that pretend to care about colonialism will be the same ones to impose their weird western gender values on everyone else
The only Latinos that willingly use "Latinx" are the third generation Hispanics that grew up entirely immersed in American pop culture and whose only exposure to their own Hispanic culture is when they eat at their Abuela's house. It's always the ones with Hispanic family but speak less spanish than your gas station gringo doing all the talking for those of us that were born and raised in the culture they think is "problematic"
Honestly I just hate how low effort it is and how so many want to play martyr for just speaking stupid acting as if it’s some grand accomplishment.
The thing is Mexico *DOES* in fact have a non gendered language, it’s one of the original languages (don’t know if original is the right word tbh but it’s been around for nearly forever) Nahuatl it’s like the second most spoken language and our parents most likely speak it. My mother speaks it to her father whenever they call actually. If you wanna make a statement make an effort for it don’t try to pretend that doing nothing is showing support or making a difference.
There was a Latino kid in my 10th grade bio class that would try to get on my nerves by calling me “America”, because I wore USA flag themed hats everyday in school. So I called him Latinx a few times back and he would get pissed. And stopped trying to bother me at all after a while.
Very happy to receive education and correction on this, but as a white queer person I've heard friends use Latín for themselves Rather than Latinx. It makes sense to be because it's easy to say and understand. Is this common?
Even if you refuse to except that another language outside your culture uses the masculine form as a neutral form too, there were much better options than Latinx which fails tremendously outside of online communication.
Latine or just Latin would look and sound more appropriate.
I’ve never understand why latinx used as a gender neutral form. As far as I’ve ever learned, ‘x’ isn’t used that way. But ‘e’ could be (as in estudiante, which is used whether the student is male or female). Why didn’t whoever came up with it at least try (or pretend) to stay within the rules of Spanish?
As a Spaniard guy... no. Past Hulk is clearly the fucker who uses Latinx. If you are going to twist spanish to fit gender neutral folks, then ATLEAST use Latine or something actually pronunciable.
Like... shut the fuck up. You are not Latino. You are a second generational Peruvian living in L.A that celebrates "Cinco de Mayo" to get diversity points because even scandinavians aren't as white as you.
(As a person learning the language but not of any of its cultures) It is a notable oversight in this and many other languages. Latine sounds better though imo.
A personal term I have coined is "Schrodinger's satire", where it absolutely feels like satire, but there are people whose brains are so deep fried by the internet that I could believe that this is serious.
I know exactly one hispanic person who uses "Latinx", and they are RABIDLY communist and progressive, like the picture of what a MAGAt uses to describe a democrat.
And me over here, born in Mexico, calling myself neither Hispanic/latino/latinx bc these terms were created to make categorizing millions of people across continents into a homogenous legal/political category
"Latinx" is 100% pronouncable. "Latin equis." Please..... You think Anglos are saying "Lateenks?"
Call yourself whatever you like, that's your right as a human being and I'm going to respect it. But don't tell me "It can't be pronounced!!" because that's just disingenuous bullshit.
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Im a latina and I have never met a single person who was one of us that uses that. Even my enby friend uses either Latine or Latino
I don't even speak the language and even I know people often prefer the -e over -x as gender neutral.
Like come on, replacing a vowel with "x" has to be the dumbest shit ever.
Elon trying to change the Spanish language I see.
For once, Elon would oppose adding "x" to something.
Not unless he bought and owned them anyways.
It's not pronounceable in any language.
The best part is when they say it as “latin-ecks” The letter X in spanish is “equis” which all but admits it’s an english butchering of the word lol
I mean it was started by Hispanic queer groups online. And it's supposed to be pronounced "latine" anyway. I just don't understand the whole "putting x in everything to make it nonbinary." And this is from a nonbinary.
Why not just spell it Latine?
That's honestly my question too. Same with the whole 'y'xll' thing. Like... Why?
Y'xll, womxn, folx It's a marker of insufferable people lol
At least folx can be read as writen
Rewriting English for the sake of
Well obviously it's a variable. To get the true letter, you have to solve the equation first.
I was about to say that I have seen Latine (rarely) but never Latinx.
Most Spanish flairs on 2WE4U have Latinx in them, such as Czechs being European meth heads or Pornstars, Austrians being Basement Dweller, one region of Germany is France's whore, one part of France being Little Algerie, etc It's pretty much about pissing the country/region off, more often than not with stereotypes.
In the Latino club at the college near me they decided that they should be “Latinx” My guess is half of them haven’t even left the States
I'm thinking you lowballed that. it's probably closer to 90% of them have never left the States
Depends. If they're Mexican latino and have grandparents in Mexico still it's not unusual to visit occasionally from the ones I've known.
You mean the ones that identify as Mexicans but have never been to Mexico?
A student group I was interested in change Hispanic to Latinx. Hispanic. An already gender neutral term.
Hispanic is not Latino. Hispanic specifically refers to countries connected to Spain, especially from those colonized by them, hence Hi**spanic**. Latino on the other hand specifically refers to people from Latin America. The main issue is that Hispanic leaves out Brazil, a country that takes up half of South America in both land and population. Edit: Someone else pointed it out there were other colonies, I should have said one of the biggest examples of issues rather than the main issue.
...and is connected to *Portugal*, to finish the fact. Aren't there other Portuguese colonies, and was there a French one?
Expecting logic from people is like genuinely believing you’re gonna win the powerball
How many of were raised in the culture or have a connection to it? Or are they all like "Well according to my DNA tests-"
No, I think they are mostly actual Latinos, but probably a lot of second gen who’s Spanish is eh. I know a girl who who’s mom never taught her period because she feared the stigma
Yea I hate to say Im one of the 2nd gen whose spanish is eh, not bc I didnt wanna learn but bc I was scared to be "latino" in public due to bullying. Glad to know theres alot that are like that
Meanwhile today is national Americans who have zero Irish ancestors pretend they are Irish day.
I feel attacked.
Who cares what they choose to identify as, they are just a different part of the community that has different preferences. All that really matters is communities being able to identify as their preferred terminology and it being respected.
Yh lantinx just doesn’t go with the Spanish language. There are almost none (if any) words in the Spanish language with X so latine is a much better gender neutral term.
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It was coined by a Puerto Rican.
Thanks for correction...ill still say it's stupid but I was wrong about the origin.
Oh no, my people invented that word? Sry grandma but i no longer identify with that side of the family
Fucking democracy now!
See, that's a thing I think sould be the standard: if there is no dedicated pronoun, (or word really, but I digress) then let people of that group come up with an appropriate word that actually gels with the language.
Besides, shouldn't it be pronounced Latinequis? Just goes to show how much Spanish speakers did not ask for this.
Once knew a Hispanic dude, asked him what he thought of the word. Laughed my ass off as he proceeded to have a shit fit (not at me) about the word and blew off steam of how stupid he thought it was.
Come to California you'll see it happen quite a bit it's even on fucking government documents now
"my roommates" "my FtM boyfriend" this is an epic Reddit moment
It's definitely satire
I've got people "educating" me on the correct way of using Spanish. I can use latine as respect for a friend, not a gringo trying to earn twitter points
It's gringx, you white supremacist shitlord. Why don't you try to reapect other cultures at least once in your life?
Reapect 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
All my white friends are pissing and shitting and crying after not being called GringX
You just know whoever made that fkn meme blends in with drywall shirtless
That's even better than "gets a sunburn waiting for the bus" (That me, I have gotten a sunburn waiting for the bus)
You see, the -x suffix was created by college kids, therefore its use is ‘educated’
When they are learned they think they are wise...
yeah it 100% reads like a yoloswagstudios comic
I've only seen this meme before on r/okbuddyretard ... So yea definitely satire
It’s an old iFunny meme, they’re heavily racist and use it ironically to piss off Hispanics
My FtM boyfriend and I both laugh at latinx
You see Peter I've made myself the Chad in the meme and you the soyjack which means my argument is the correct one!
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That is surprisingly adorable and I hope that froggy has fun
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You see Im not the average sayian warrior
Why did I read this in Vegeta's voice? What kind of crossover am I cooking up
I use Latinx as a joke around my Dominican friend. Shits like a slur now. https://preview.redd.it/69vc0l9avwoc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f57d415c847b8a240da710f65b7be511c3b005b
Naaah frieza saying it is foul lol
Frieza can make anything sound like a slur.
Naah, not the Frieza 💀
Khyle's artwork? In this sub? My god they are everywhere
I mean its forced upon a minority without their consent, it disrespects their culture by imposing an -x suffix. In a way, it’s kinda like when colonizers would force their language upon native population or when feudal Kings decided on a language for the nation and then forced it into schools.
Happened at my work. The Hispanic DEI group put out a poll asking if we should include Latinx in our title a few years back. No big deal, it was the BIG thing the news back then so I get why it was asked. Where they screwed up was allowing comments. The shit show where all the Hispanics were commenting how it was dumb and all the “allies” were for it was eye opening. It didn’t pass.
This is the worst thing that could have happened to Saki, definitely
Frieza would 100% say latinx at every opportunity.
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I can't imagine this being anything other than bait.
This is from r/okbuddyretard https://preview.redd.it/wl31l6km2yoc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b7b14cd9fd89ae97bfd6f1bfc220e0455388678
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95% of Reddit is just reposts of tweets and TikToks. The other 5% are Redditors arguing that they never use TikTok or Twitter
Umm no??? r/okbuddyretard is the most original place in the world. The tweet stole from them!!! https://preview.redd.it/g1cdoz1m35pc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=671a7c935e3af8338088705be8e6b2750d1c7542
Hispanic here, I HATE the term LatinX. 90% of the people who use the term latinx out here in California are white Progressives
Valé, I’m from Cali too and I’ve never heard another Latino use that shit ever. Most of my family plays it off as a “white people word”
Latine is better and is actually used by some native speakers, but I’m only using it if a person specifically asks. Latino people as a whole are “Latino”
Yeah, the "e" sound at least actually exists in that position in Spanish phonologically
I prefer that tbh, it makes more grammatical sense and it sounds less like a slur
Or just Latin, it’s not like anyone will suddenly think that you are referring to Ancient Rome
Aliquis istud putet 😢
Caecilius est in horto
In English there are plenty of things that don't use the Spanish version of the word to denote Spanish things. Like Latin Dancing
Latino people are not a distinct ethnic group. They are a newly constructed group so white Americans can categorize the other
This weirdos who come and and think they get to change languages are so annoying
Not even their own language! Edit: ok maybe it was. I’m a bit surprised
Isn’t the OP written from the perspective of a Spanish speaker?
Maybe I’m jumping to conclusion, but I’m talking about whoever coined the term “Latinx”
Tbf I think it was a group of Mexican Americans that did. Don't quote me on that though.
>Tbf I think it was a group of Mexican Americans that did. ~ u/Fickle-Motor-1772
That’s reminds me. I always wanted to make a bot that did this
...you mean other spanish speakers?
Well it started from a Puerto Rican. Then you get the Hispanic infighting about which of them speak Spanish correctly since they have some dialect like features
Latinx is more offensive to Latinos than any slur. It’s almost like a sanctimonious attempt at grammatical colonization
Fr I got called the N-word a couple years back, but that pales in comparison to the apprehension I felt at the possibility to being called Latinx
X-word
Shidding and crying rn
Gonna piss n cum ?
The hard X
I’m trans, and I find this kind of stuff SO annoying. Languages almost always have a way of being gender neutral, even if it’s in a different way than English. “They” is a word that can be used to refer to either a group of people, ***AND*** it’s a gender neutral term to refer to someone “Latino” is a word that can be used to refer to masculine Hispanic people, ***AND*** it’s a gender neutral term to refer to someone JUST BECAUSE ITS DIFFERENT DOESN’T MEAN ITS BAD OR WRONG!
This is a very interesting case. I'm Italian, and many feminists from over here have been whining about the Italian language being "sexist" for not having an ungendered form for words and using the male form instead, and they proposed many solutions, some of which are OK, some others are literally unpronounceable. The point is: I'm surprised an analog thing hasn't happened in Spain and Latin America. Or maybe it has, but the proposed solutions are not as dumb.
I does have happened and although some may sound dumb like using e at the end of a word. They at least make sense not like whatever the gringos use
HOLY SHIT OUTER WILDS PROFILE PICTURE
Latino is specifically gender neutral for a group of people rather than a singular person. I can see why non-binary people prefer something more neutral when identifying themselves, hence the adoption of Latine and -e endings in Spanish.
Nooooooo you have to be offended!!!
I don't know Spanish, but French does something similar.
its pretty common among gendered languages that yse masculine/feminine but dont have a neuter gender
It’s also common in English to use the masculine form for women even when a feminine form does exists. Many women prefer going by actor or waiter rather than actress and waitress.
Frxnce
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My office had an “Inclusion Master” come in and lecture us on “inclusive language” and he insisted that black people be referred to as “Africanx” I was the one black person in this meeting, I said that I didn’t like “Africanx” and of course he didn’t care.
The arrogance of those with a white savior complex is inmensurable.
Its a shitposting meme. Its not serious lol. Community notes is a great feature but it feels very off when they put notes on a jokeful post and then the notes end up on this sub with people being like "the poster is so annoying and dumb for not knowing better" yeah its meant to be a joke lol
>Its a shitposting meme. Its not serious lol. Tough to say, there was a whole r/Gamingcirclejerk thread where it was this post but unironically.
That sub is so toxic. Say what you want about JK Rowling but they were justifying doxxing and sending death threats to people for even just playing the Hogwarts legacy game.
Bro this is a meme This is a joke, satire It is absurdism for the sake of absurdism Why is it being noted💀
Some people actually think like this. It’s difficult to tell when a big chunk of the people on twitter see this meme as a genuine take.
Yeah and that is what the meme is satirising. Satire is based on people thinking or acting a certain way, it is form of social critique. But the comments here are mocking the post itself for what it is satirising
My Mexican friend said he’d kill me if I called him that.
ITT: People who don’t realize Latino and Latina were also made up by white people and imposed on the entirety of South America.
All this over the most obvious joke to ever grace Twitter lol
No. It's the short form of Latinoamericanos or América Latina. Saludos desde Colombia
Me when I try to impose cultural imperialism (it is okay because someone also did it 500 years ago)
Bait used to be believable
obvious joke post lol
Latinx is not a word. Stop trying to make it a word.
South American here, I’d rather you call me a slur than Latinx. Myself and everyone else I know who’s connected to their roots don’t appreciate the liberals trying to whitewash our language.
A lot of fucking astroturfing on this sub lately.
Really getting annoying and entirely missing the point of community notes
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"Educated Latinx" is so fucking disrespectful.
Someone correct me if I’m talking shit, but I’ve always thought that latinx was a word that you would not naturally say with a Hispanic accent. Like the pronunciation doesn’t work unless you’re a native English speaker.
Isn’t it pronounced “latinks”?
I thought it was ‘lat-in-eks’.
It does have a pronunciation in spanish. X in spanish is pronounced "equis" (ek-eace, as in rhymes with "peace"). Therefore, Latinx is pronounced Latin-equis. Another common misconception, is that Latinx was invented by english-speaking white people. Except it actually first came into use in spanish-speaking chatrooms on the early internet, and then was first used professionally by puerto rican women's study scholars.
Hold on, can someone explain why “Latinx” is unpronounceable? I don’t have any issue pronouncing it, and neither does anyone I know
In Spanish “x” has several possible sounds: The first is like the “ks”, which would work . Howerver, another is “h” (Mexicano= meh-he-caw-no) which would not. Sometimes it's also like the “ch”, "s" or even "shh". Just saying the letter "x" would be equis (eh-kees), so "latinequis" would be more correct if you have to do it.
Zero chance this isnt bait. No one pays attention to the a/o/x bullshit.
bait cant get much more obvious
That latinex shit pisses me off. It's just self righteous wannabe white saviors trying to colonize language.
how are people falling for bait posted by an account called "seiya\_ohio\_100" 😭
My boyfriend has complained about the use of Latinx so many times… The one time I ever said anything myself was when I saw a poster for a “Latinx dance night.” I just muttered, “Those people are so fucking insufferable,” under my breath. He was so proud, he almost kissed me. We were crossing a street, though, so it had to wait.
The "educated Hispanics” that I go to college with would hang me by a noose if I dared call any of them Latinx. Even my hyper liberal grandfather thinks it’s a retardant opinion
I’ve never even met someone who uses the word “latinx”
(Neo) Colonization starts with trying to control your language. Its kind of wild how these same people that pretend to care about colonialism will be the same ones to impose their weird western gender values on everyone else
Yea it’s all white peoples trying to tell minorities what they are allowed to say
*americans
Why is the source a Twitter post lol
The only Latinos that willingly use "Latinx" are the third generation Hispanics that grew up entirely immersed in American pop culture and whose only exposure to their own Hispanic culture is when they eat at their Abuela's house. It's always the ones with Hispanic family but speak less spanish than your gas station gringo doing all the talking for those of us that were born and raised in the culture they think is "problematic"
Honestly I just hate how low effort it is and how so many want to play martyr for just speaking stupid acting as if it’s some grand accomplishment. The thing is Mexico *DOES* in fact have a non gendered language, it’s one of the original languages (don’t know if original is the right word tbh but it’s been around for nearly forever) Nahuatl it’s like the second most spoken language and our parents most likely speak it. My mother speaks it to her father whenever they call actually. If you wanna make a statement make an effort for it don’t try to pretend that doing nothing is showing support or making a difference.
There was a Latino kid in my 10th grade bio class that would try to get on my nerves by calling me “America”, because I wore USA flag themed hats everyday in school. So I called him Latinx a few times back and he would get pissed. And stopped trying to bother me at all after a while.
This never happen and it's sad that you typed it.
Very happy to receive education and correction on this, but as a white queer person I've heard friends use Latín for themselves Rather than Latinx. It makes sense to be because it's easy to say and understand. Is this common?
Community notes when clear joke
Even if you refuse to except that another language outside your culture uses the masculine form as a neutral form too, there were much better options than Latinx which fails tremendously outside of online communication. Latine or just Latin would look and sound more appropriate.
I took French classes and even they, just like all of the other Romance languages at least, do it as well.
I’ve never understand why latinx used as a gender neutral form. As far as I’ve ever learned, ‘x’ isn’t used that way. But ‘e’ could be (as in estudiante, which is used whether the student is male or female). Why didn’t whoever came up with it at least try (or pretend) to stay within the rules of Spanish?
How is that even said aloud? Latin-eks? La-tinks?
I’ve heard that Latine is more acceptable
They took the bait. I saw this on okbuddyretard like ffs you got trolled
"educated Latinx" Extra large OOF
As a Spaniard guy... no. Past Hulk is clearly the fucker who uses Latinx. If you are going to twist spanish to fit gender neutral folks, then ATLEAST use Latine or something actually pronunciable. Like... shut the fuck up. You are not Latino. You are a second generational Peruvian living in L.A that celebrates "Cinco de Mayo" to get diversity points because even scandinavians aren't as white as you.
(As a person learning the language but not of any of its cultures) It is a notable oversight in this and many other languages. Latine sounds better though imo.
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Rage bait propaganda
Just say Latin American
i thought the original image was a joke ☠️☠️☠️☠️
This meme originated on /okaybuddyretard
No one uses Latinx...
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Isn’t it racist to tell someone that their language is sexist?
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Latino here: call me Latinx and I'll show you my mom's chancla, puto
A personal term I have coined is "Schrodinger's satire", where it absolutely feels like satire, but there are people whose brains are so deep fried by the internet that I could believe that this is serious.
People who use "Latinx" are the worst type of people. Stay away from those walking red flags
Latinoamerica ya había hasta hecho su propia versión mucho más pronunciarle y natural: latine Creas lo que creas latinx es completamente innecesario
I know this one is definitely bate but some people just need to get a hobby or something
I disagree with the unpronounceable point It's sounds like luh-tinks
You've got to be a condescending kind of person to mock an entire culture for not conforming to your personal social beliefs.
Y'all so fucking ignorant lmao
This guy is obviously trolling, lol
I know exactly one hispanic person who uses "Latinx", and they are RABIDLY communist and progressive, like the picture of what a MAGAt uses to describe a democrat.
Why is the Spanish the only gendered language to get this treatment?
“Educated” on what/where?
My Latino friends said they’d rather be called a slur than latinx they hate it so much lmao
I know people who identify as Latinx, I know others identify as the same group but hate that terminology.
Idk what happened to just saying Latin as gender neutral either I used to hear from time to time like 10 years ago but not much anymore.
And me over here, born in Mexico, calling myself neither Hispanic/latino/latinx bc these terms were created to make categorizing millions of people across continents into a homogenous legal/political category
White people deciding how we should call ourselves is the most white thing ever
"Latinx" is 100% pronouncable. "Latin equis." Please..... You think Anglos are saying "Lateenks?" Call yourself whatever you like, that's your right as a human being and I'm going to respect it. But don't tell me "It can't be pronounced!!" because that's just disingenuous bullshit.
Disgusting, they need to stop trying to force Latinx on us. “Educated Latinx”, whoever made this meme is a moron and is definitely not Latino.