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> if you say "latinx" you likely grew up in a mansion

I'm not a fan of the term either, but this is a wildly inaccurate generalization.

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I've never heard any Hispanic say Latinx. I've seen it only on the internet being propagated by the usual suspects.

I've seen it used in my company's DEI training material. Which is funny because I'm working in Europe.

"We purposely trained him wrong as a joke"

I’ve seen it on signs on campus.

Ladies and gentlemen: the popularity of the the term "latinx"

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=latinx&h...

Nobody uses it in Latin America. It's as latino as Taco Bell chalupa supreme.

It's just another term from the keep-people-angry industrial complex. No latino I have ever known donates to the "latinx" organizations. So they don't represent the "latinx" voice but rather whoever is funding them.

> Nobody uses it in Latin America

As silly as Latinx is, I don’t think that’s a valid argument. Nobody uses the term “Italian American” in Italy either. It’s quite specific to Latin-American populations in the USA

As I was saying, it's terminology used by people who had little to no connection to Latin America. People over there hate it and think it is the purest form of cringe.

If you go to an authentic restaurant in the US with latinos in them and call them latinx they will probably either laugh at you or tell you that nobody uses that term, and that they would never identify themselves as latinx.

Latinx is a term used by imperialists to tell their subject population how they should identify themselves. If you use it, you are implicitly identifying yourself as pro-imperialist. Don't be surprised when people react badly to that.

Which imperialists? The Spanish? The Portuguese? The British?

I see the use for it. Spanish is a gendered language and by convention it defaults to the masculine plural.

Most men would object to being called "latina", but women are supposed to be ok being grouped with "latino", go figure

Other efforts have been using the "e" vowel, "latines"

Hispanic solves it but then not all Latinos are hispanic, we missed out on "Iberic"

Do you honestly think people that are busy dealing with real problems have the time to be concerned with such synthetic bullshit argument?

People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that.

> People that are trapped at the base of the Maslow hierarchy of needs have no time for that.

perhaps - but not everyone is in that position.

Isn’t that the point of Maslow’s hierarchy?

Then you've run out of real problems and now have time to focus on this issue? Welcome to the top of the Maslow hierarchy.

> Most men would object to being called "latina", but women are supposed to be ok being grouped with "latino", go figure

It's not that women are "ok" about being called "latinos". In their language, this word refers to all people, irrespective of gender.

In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them.

> In a sense, women have their own specific word "latinas". Men don't have a word specific for them.

Disagree

If you have a group of male citizens you call them “ciudadanos”

If you have a group of female citizens you call them “ciudadanas”

If 1 man joins the group now it’s “ciudadanos”

Some people have advocated for “ciudadanes” as a gender neutral plural of citizens

"Iberic" is wrong. "Iberico" in English is "Iberian".

Also, Gibraltar is Iberian, yet not ethnically Hispanic.

I was trying to go for Spain+Portugal, so instead of Latino (LatinoAmerica), IberoAmerica - but that leaves out the french colonies

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Replace mansion with ‘wealthy progressive mostly-white district’ and it would be more accurate.

Every latino I know, men or women, completely despise this term. I only ever see it used by whites (typically from the US).

Turns out that they really like their languages, and grammatical gender is a thing in Romance languages.

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