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RailRoad_Candy t1_je5tu7m wrote

I think I'm most offended at the use of the term "Latinx". Like WTF white people. Make a brown friend, it's ok to learn and respect their language. No need to be offended for them, then shit on their language.

Other than that, I hope no one tells this group of dipshits from VA about California...or the NAACP for that matter. Dear lord...

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PrincessAegonIXth t1_je5v5nt wrote

It bothers me when Latino people start using Latinx just because white people/institutions tell them too

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RailRoad_Candy t1_je5z81x wrote

Yes, it's absolutely shocking that white people know so much more about other cultures and races. How they're oppressed and misrepresented and assure those cultures and races that they indeed do know better, while having zero to limited exposure to those races and cultures. Of course it's not racism and prejudice of the highest order, the white people just know better. /s

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LogisticBlues t1_je632uq wrote

It’s particularly hilarious since one could make the argument that forcing Latinos to use Latinx is a form of “white colonialism,” which is the exact opposite of the intent.

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RhaenyrasUncle t1_je6cw9n wrote

The white people who use Latinx are the same types who think the janitorial staff at their office buidlings actually appreciate when they poorly speak Spanish at them. 😅

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TheChickenWasDry t1_je6ot50 wrote

“Latinx” is peak white progressive suburbanite new speak.

It’s one of those words you hear and can guess everything about the person who’s using it, and you know they won’t be Latino.

And if Latinos don’t want it but white progressives are pushing it on them, what does that sound like?

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NoMoLerking t1_je6ctn3 wrote

I live in a white wealthy suburb (not Newton, but think of Newton) and all my fellow whites say Latinx. The only Latinx guy I know well calls himself Latino but told me he doesn’t correct people.

“It’s just like…whatever man.”

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witnessemptysky t1_je68xqz wrote

I lived in a Spanish speaking country and am married to a native Spanish speaker and yet I have only heard other white people in the US use the term ‘latinx’.

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trowdatawhey t1_je8k4ux wrote

Liberal white women are the worst. First they cone up with LatinX when nobody asked. Then they got that news lady fired for saying “Fo Shizzle My Nizzle.” Not one black person was offended.

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thejosharms t1_je6cikr wrote

It's not shitting on a language, it's creating a way for our trans and non-binary friends have a way to express themselves.

We have plenty of staff here who go by Latinx and plenty who stick with Latina and Latino. I refer to them by their preferred descriptor same as I do their preferred pronouns.

The push for us to adopt Latinx came from that community, not us white teachers.

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RailRoad_Candy t1_je6keq3 wrote

"Latin" would have worked. Latinx was likely used because words are now viewed through what? A lense of gender...while at the same time demeaning/ignoring/condemning languages that are gender specific? So the author picks Latinx instead of Latin because the author is afraid of not recognizing the new acceptable white people terms?

So again, it's a word white people created to impart on other races and cultures because white people know better. You make my point for me.

>The push for us to adopt Latinx came from that community, not us white teachers.

Really?! It wasn't because people wanted to keep their jobs? Sure thing. It all comes back to White People know better for everyone. It's fucking gross.

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Elbesp t1_je7jtke wrote

Latinx was created by Latino academics idk why people spout this idea that it’s a “white” creation (which opposes whiteness and Latin-ness in a way that exposes a lack of understanding of Latin America). It’s true that it has been largely replaced by alternatives like “Latine”, but the fact that Latinos who might not have particularly favorable views towards trans or non binary people oppose a gender neutral term is not the “own” people think it is.

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thejosharms t1_je6m17l wrote

All of the higher ranking members of our DEI committee are Latinx or Black.

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RailRoad_Candy t1_je6nmad wrote

Ah yes, no one in Public Education has never lost their position for not embracing the white know it all new-speak. Sure thing.

Dear lord, take a vacation to any Spanish speaking nation and come hard with the Latinx, when they look at you with disgust or confusion, remember you're white, and you know better.

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