"Democrats fall flat with 'Latinx' term" (brainwash, Miami, news)
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I would if I knew any. I'm Hispanic and I work with a Mexican national; I've never heard anyone say "Latinx" in real life.
No wonder. You don’t even know the whole dynamics of this movement. The gender equality movement is not going on among Mexicans or Hispanics themselves but among liberal Anglos.
It is fairly recent just like metoo, BLM and CRT, so if you are generally not into social media you will not see it for a few more years but it is definitely coming. All liberal movements take off fairly reliably in the western countries.
No wonder. You don’t even know the whole dynamics of this movement. The gender equality movement is not going on among Mexicans or Hispanics themselves but among liberal Anglos.
I know lots of liberal anglos, I've still never heard this term in person.
I mostly agree with your point. But I'm saying you rarely hear the left attacking Spain or Spaniards for anything they did after Spain was defeated by Britain and lost their power and standing in the world.
It's only when the Spanish were perceived to be "oppressors" that the left have a negative view about them or, in this case, Columbus who was sent by Spain.
There has been a movement in Latin American countries to rename monuments of the conquistadors, many countries have not to mention there isnt a columbus day there.
Latinx seems completely acceptable to me. We don't identify gender in most racial/cultural demographics, why should we in latina/latino people?
We use gender in latinos, and filapinos. Why? Then, when you talk about them in groups you have to go male. Why?
(frankly, I don't understand for the life of me why Spanish and other languages identify gender of objects like tables and pencils, but that's a discussion for another day).
No, you don’t understand. We use “Latino” and “Latina” because the Spanish language, like all Latin languages, is gendered. Are you suggesting that they change and conform to English usage? Isn’t that a form of linguistic imperialism?
OK, so stop using that terminology. Sounds simple enough:
"Only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves “Hispanic” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background, according to the survey from Bendixen & Amandi International, a top Democratic firm specializing in Latino outreach.
More problematic for Democrats: 40 percent said Latinx bothers or offends them to some degree and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term."
"One of the founders of Univision, Joaquin Blaya, said they built the network around the concept of using the words Latino and, especially, Hispanic, because it reflected the Spanish language and united Spanish speakers from across Latin America. He said his objection to Latinx is that it’s “too weird. It’s dumb. It’s foreign. It’s not Spanish.”
“Democrats are helping Republicans make them look out of touch,” said Blaya, a registered Democrat. “We built a network around our Spanish language and we have a shared culture around it. Why are we trying to change this? It’s offensive to a lot of people.”
What about the Filipinx? Their language is similar in that regard. Filipina for women, Filipino for men. I'm sure their are other languages out there that also do not fit comfortably into the gender insanity of the trans language movement.
No, you don’t understand. We use “Latino” and “Latina” because the Spanish language, like all Latin languages, is gendered. Are you suggesting that they change and conform to English usage? Isn’t that a form of linguistic imperialism?
Shut up and bend the knee to the Marxist left, or you're a bigot.
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