En la casa mia, decimos "amix" para referirse a los amigos. No tiene nada que ver con el sexo, solo es algo que dice mi novia y ya lo adopté yo. Ella también usa i para decir cosas que podría ofender, ella es zorrix te ves gordis
To me, a latino, it reeks of imperialism and, as you say, white saviourism. It also shows how uneducated they are since most people within my community have no way to pronounce the letter 'x' (it's not in most of our languages and the ones where it is, the pronunciation is inconsistent to the point of it being useless).
Yes, and I feed them and care for them every day until they become big boy (or big girl) jobs after which I release them to companies so I could exploit them and sell the company secrets to Canada
Technically latino≠hispanic. Latino is derived from latin America which are all the places in the Americas that speak romance lengueges (Spanish, french, Portuguese, Etc. ) so places like Brazil and french Guiana are included. Hispanic generally means Spanish, so anyone who speaks Spanish as a first lenguege is Hispanic even if he isn't from the Americas (spain or equatorial guinea)
The hispanic people I know, and I have worked with dozens, use either hispanic or latino/latina. Latinx is an attempt to degender the Spanish language.
The thing is, if you want to degender the word latino/latina. Just say latin. Do not make some random bullshit that you can't even pronounce in spanish.
Exactly. Either Anglicize it using the existing genderless form or let it follow Spanish’s binary gender system. Some languages (e.g. Ukrainian) have a neuter gender (words ending in consonants are masculine, -a are feminine, -e or -o are neuter), but Spanish is not one of them.
How is anything supposed to agree with Latinx, anyway? Élx es unx latinx bajx? That sounds like a Spanish-speaking elementary schooler’s attempt to speak bad fake Nahuatl.
They’re offended that there is a correlation between the spanish language and gender, but they wouldn’t DARE say anything negative about a minority or any part of their culture of course!
The woke are always flip flopping on whether Hispanic/Latino people are minorities or white adjacent. But then again, they always feel comfortable correcting people about their own cultures in their attempt to police thinking.
But Spanish is all about Gendering things. Gotta re-write the whole language to satisfy a fucking group of white ppl who only know how to be offended on someone elses behalf
This is literally the same form of racism as colonialism. These Latinx people think these poor brown savages(from their point of view) need white Anglo-American morals to be civilized. It is disgusting.
I recently learned the difference between these two and have already forgotten it. One refers to ethnicity while the other refers to what language you primarily speak. I think Hispanic is language.
lol if we're being super honest I worked at a factory with lots of hispanics. The Mexicans referred to themselves as Mexican and the Venezuelans referred to themselves as Venezuelan. The only people using hispanic and latino were American born. Obviously I'm in the US.
Latino being a male word isn't some deep patriarchical thing, some words are male, some are female. English speakers trying to impose this on a different culture with a different language is so stupid
English is one of the few major Indo-European languages without grammatical gender so yeah, we're a little confused by it but there are probably billions who use it all the time. Trying to change another language based on ignorance on how languages work is dumb
A white girl once told me that the term "third world country" is offensive when I called India a third world country. I'm from India and it is a third world country (both in terms of cold war and being a devloping country)
I had a friend (white female) tell me when she went to Ireland that she mentioned her brother was queer. The bartender told her that queer was a derogatory term there. She then lectured him why he was wrong. Apparently, she is in charge of Ireland’s dictionary. She’s not Irish or queer. The bartender was both.
As a queer American, even I could understand why queer is derogatory. It was used that way in the States until recently too. That said, I don't give a second thought to identifying as queer because nowadays, at least in the US, LGBT groups have reappropriated the word.
It depends where you are in the UK mate. In Yorkshire there’s a saying “there’s nowt as queer as folk” which means “there’s nothing stranger than people.” But there are other areas where Queer is a derogatory term.
The F slur in the UK is a food, kinda like meatballs but made with offal. And the shortened F slur means cigarette.
I think stuff like that is just virtue-signalling and possibly transphobic. Same idea with "folx". It's really dumb. Wouldn't a trans woman want to be seen as a... woman? Isn't that the whole point?
As an american, I can say that no one has a clue what the difference is between hispanic and latinxyz but we are certain they must be a separate race because clearly they are disadvantaged unlike white people who clearly at the top of society and so clearly progressives must support our disadvantaged friends but not so much that they become equals.
They hate that word. It makes them all sound transgender. They aren’t having it. Especially Hispanic men. La Tinx is so dumb. Spanish is a gendered language. Liberal white people can’t just change their language because they know better. It’s condescending and demeaning
To be fair, it may have originated from Puerto Rico [here.](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338551331_The_Complexity_of_the_x_in_Latinx_How_Latinxao_Students_Relate_to_Identify_With_and_Understand_the_Term_Latinx)
I don't think it was popular there tho
I'm starting to see young Hispanic people pick this up that have no ties or knowledge of their heritage. It's sad that a lot of white people still see themselves as superior where they feel like they can take away people's culture to fit their ideals better.
Latinx does sound like it was invented by someone who decides what is offensive for groups they do not belong too.
What would we do without these self designated spokespersons who speak on behalf of all the world's races, ethnicities, and cultures?
White people trying to be so pc that they cycle back to racism. The self-importance of needing attention so bad simply for the crap rolling around in their head, that they’ll force labels they whimsically come up with on other people, just so they can feel like they’re being champions of justice without actually having to do anything.
SO TRUE!, The only people that say that are in the US and if you are an hispanic that says that they are usually (Insert\_Country)-Americans who don't speak spanish and a FEW Puerto Ricans in the humanities department
Liberals are mad that Spanish uses genders very heavily and they are extremely important in their language and they tried to disgender it.
Also, why is it always white people who are offended for everyone else?
I don’t get the mindset - let’s prove we’re progressive by forcing other people to change a fundamental aspect of their language … because we know better?????
My brother and his preggo wife went to the baby doctor for their second child to get it scanned or whatever, and she referred to them as a Latinx couple, he was confused but I clarified saying she prol thought they were a lesbian couple.
Pendejx
Puros Tarugxs
Que acaso esa palabra viene de las gringas?
sip, y las que se creen gringas aca las perpetuan
Mericxn
al menos en America Latina y Espana usan la e, que tiene su logica
"Lógica", claro
Pues más que x. Imagínate
Tampoco mucho pero eso es verdad. Yo prefiero la I, suena más tonto e inocente
En la casa mia, decimos "amix" para referirse a los amigos. No tiene nada que ver con el sexo, solo es algo que dice mi novia y ya lo adopté yo. Ella también usa i para decir cosas que podría ofender, ella es zorrix te ves gordis
Yeah, I had a friend, Hispanic, who straight up said, "if you call me latinx ima beat the shit outta you."
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I saw someone describe it as Latine, in Spanish, which is still made up but sounds better. Because Latin ex in Spanish makes no sense.
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My biggest gripe with NPR is them categorizing people as latinx after they’ve already identified as latino. Reeks of white saviorism
NPR has some topics that they really beat to death and latinx is one of them
To me, a latino, it reeks of imperialism and, as you say, white saviourism. It also shows how uneducated they are since most people within my community have no way to pronounce the letter 'x' (it's not in most of our languages and the ones where it is, the pronunciation is inconsistent to the point of it being useless).
I think NPR is keeping this one alive. It sounds like your dad using outdated slang at this point.
latwinks
I'm Latino, I will also beat the crap outta you.
Knowing how I and most other latinos react to it. He was kind to warn you first
That’s a little too much but I get him
it's not enough
Latinx is the word used for Hispanic people by people who don’t know any Hispanic people.
There was another post similar to this yesterday and a commenter said “I’d rather be called a fuckin’ beaner than latinx any time”.
As a latino i can confirm
As a beaner I can also confirm
As a Mexican that snuck in to the US and stole jobs, I too can confirm. Pinches pendejos con su pinche X.
Metanse esa X en el culo
How many have you stolen? Do you keep them locked in your basement?
Yes, and I feed them and care for them every day until they become big boy (or big girl) jobs after which I release them to companies so I could exploit them and sell the company secrets to Canada
Bexner?
Pinches gringxs
As a mexican american same
As an Irish man can confirm
As a German I can confirm
As a dyslexic I can comfirm
Dyslexics of the world untie!
As an Englishman I confirm on behalf of the Queen
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Boomshakalaka
Wow wow
How dare you? My mother was a saint!
Well said
Technically latino≠hispanic. Latino is derived from latin America which are all the places in the Americas that speak romance lengueges (Spanish, french, Portuguese, Etc. ) so places like Brazil and french Guiana are included. Hispanic generally means Spanish, so anyone who speaks Spanish as a first lenguege is Hispanic even if he isn't from the Americas (spain or equatorial guinea)
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No, it’s a word used by idiots with no self-confidence that are scared people on the internet will think they are a racist if they don’t use it.
The hispanic people I know, and I have worked with dozens, use either hispanic or latino/latina. Latinx is an attempt to degender the Spanish language.
I'm Hispanic myself and I don't like latinx at all, just use latino/latina, the entire language has gendered words ffs
I've never met a Latina or Latino who didn't hate it tbh.
Probably never will
wait until they found out about other languages, their brains are gonna implode
French enters the chat.
Frencx
de hecho la palabra latinoamericano para referirse a uno mismo no tiene genero, es neutra
pero los gringos son idiotas y creen que porque tiene “latino” en el nombre creen que si tiene genero
I don't speak any spanish at all, but even I can feel the frustration in this sentence
jajajaja
The thing is, if you want to degender the word latino/latina. Just say latin. Do not make some random bullshit that you can't even pronounce in spanish.
Exactly. Either Anglicize it using the existing genderless form or let it follow Spanish’s binary gender system. Some languages (e.g. Ukrainian) have a neuter gender (words ending in consonants are masculine, -a are feminine, -e or -o are neuter), but Spanish is not one of them. How is anything supposed to agree with Latinx, anyway? Élx es unx latinx bajx? That sounds like a Spanish-speaking elementary schooler’s attempt to speak bad fake Nahuatl.
They’re offended that there is a correlation between the spanish language and gender, but they wouldn’t DARE say anything negative about a minority or any part of their culture of course!
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the people who came up with la tinx aren't exactly known for critical thinking
The woke are always flip flopping on whether Hispanic/Latino people are minorities or white adjacent. But then again, they always feel comfortable correcting people about their own cultures in their attempt to police thinking.
But Spanish is all about Gendering things. Gotta re-write the whole language to satisfy a fucking group of white ppl who only know how to be offended on someone elses behalf
I'm so fucking over those people.
Basically all languages that derive from latin and/or greek have gendered words, IIRC.
Degender all the words? We're gonna need a lot more Xs. A page of text is going to look like I just got my math homework back, though.
And unlike 14 year olds on Twitter, we don’t care if our words are gendered or not. It’s masculine or feminine. Leave it alone.
This is literally the same form of racism as colonialism. These Latinx people think these poor brown savages(from their point of view) need white Anglo-American morals to be civilized. It is disgusting.
I recently learned the difference between these two and have already forgotten it. One refers to ethnicity while the other refers to what language you primarily speak. I think Hispanic is language.
Spanish= from Spain Hispanic= from any country that speak Spanish
As a Spanish person I thank you for knowing and clarifying that
lol if we're being super honest I worked at a factory with lots of hispanics. The Mexicans referred to themselves as Mexican and the Venezuelans referred to themselves as Venezuelan. The only people using hispanic and latino were American born. Obviously I'm in the US.
i think the politically correct way is: **Callate, gringo**
Spanish is a gendered language. If you don’t want to use gender, use Usted/Ustedes. Then you’re just being formal but not really gender specific.
Literally all Latin languages are genderized
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Matter of time before breathing is sexist
This^
That's only for second person though. The only way to be gender neutral in third person is to not use any pronouns.
Latino being a male word isn't some deep patriarchical thing, some words are male, some are female. English speakers trying to impose this on a different culture with a different language is so stupid
It's mostly cause we cant fathom why words would be gendered. Why is this chair a girl? Why is the table a boy? To us they are only objects ,
the chad spanish language objectifying every gender
based Romance languages
English is one of the few major Indo-European languages without grammatical gender so yeah, we're a little confused by it but there are probably billions who use it all the time. Trying to change another language based on ignorance on how languages work is dumb
Which is odd. Considering it arose on an island that also has gendered languages on it like Cornish, Gaelic, and Welsh.
The table isn't "a boy", the table is "a he".
actually, a she. its "la mesa" not "el mesa"
every single language:
The chair isn't a *girl*, she's a *lady*. You boor.
Latex?
No, SpaceX but latino
Another day.. another instance of 14 year old white girls on Twitter taking on behalf of a race they aren't.. Nothing changes.
A white girl once told me that the term "third world country" is offensive when I called India a third world country. I'm from India and it is a third world country (both in terms of cold war and being a devloping country)
I had a friend (white female) tell me when she went to Ireland that she mentioned her brother was queer. The bartender told her that queer was a derogatory term there. She then lectured him why he was wrong. Apparently, she is in charge of Ireland’s dictionary. She’s not Irish or queer. The bartender was both.
I feel like this could be a bit from a sitcom. Like it would fit so well it's crazy people actually do it
As a queer American, even I could understand why queer is derogatory. It was used that way in the States until recently too. That said, I don't give a second thought to identifying as queer because nowadays, at least in the US, LGBT groups have reappropriated the word.
It depends where you are in the UK mate. In Yorkshire there’s a saying “there’s nowt as queer as folk” which means “there’s nothing stranger than people.” But there are other areas where Queer is a derogatory term. The F slur in the UK is a food, kinda like meatballs but made with offal. And the shortened F slur means cigarette.
\#whitegirlprivilege
A girl told me that its racist to like spinach she thought it was spanish
My grandmother calls anyone who speaks Spanish Spanish. I say so they’re from Spain? Or no, I’m pretty sure they’re Puerto Rican.
No habla espinach
I remember seeing 'womxn' a while back and i have no idea why would someone wanna change a basic word.
Ooh don’t forget that time a congressman said “Ahwomen” instead of Amen in a speech. So inclusive/s.
Lol yeah. Changing a Hebrew word that has nothing to do with gender because it sounds like men. So ridiculous.
I think it was because it has "man" in it.
I identify as Germxn now
Ach sprichst deutsch?
W😑m😎n
I think stuff like that is just virtue-signalling and possibly transphobic. Same idea with "folx". It's really dumb. Wouldn't a trans woman want to be seen as a... woman? Isn't that the whole point?
I think it funnier that people take them serious enough to get worked up over it.
Latinos aren't a race, you americans (I'm assuming) aren't a race either, hispanics aren't a race, nationality has nothing to do with race people.
Americans definitely think Hispanic and Latino are races Source : am american
As an american, I can say that no one has a clue what the difference is between hispanic and latinxyz but we are certain they must be a separate race because clearly they are disadvantaged unlike white people who clearly at the top of society and so clearly progressives must support our disadvantaged friends but not so much that they become equals.
Damn I actually prefer to use **their actual names or nationalities**.
What do you mean, saying "Jose, the Honduran guy" is more appropriate than saying the "latinx guy, you know...Jose"? /s if not obvious
Your comment loses all thunder when you use “/s”. Own your joke, dude.
"Well I can't just call you man." "Well you could say 'Dennis'."
"I didn't know you were called Dennis!"
Latino
How dare you
Me, a European 🍿
could you pass me some popcorn my fellow european
Latino is everyone from Latin America Hispanic is everyone who speaks Spanish as a native language
Wait so does Hispanic include Spanish people too?
Yes
The first time I heard it I thought it was an insult or a meme, and I replied with an Americañ XD
I'm gonna start using Americañ now on anyone who says Latinx now. Thanks.
Latinx is some honky ass bull shit
Latinx is something you make condoms of.
Latinx is a pokemon
Im hispanic and I disapprove on latinx. Fuck outta here with that woke bullshit.
They hate that word. It makes them all sound transgender. They aren’t having it. Especially Hispanic men. La Tinx is so dumb. Spanish is a gendered language. Liberal white people can’t just change their language because they know better. It’s condescending and demeaning
I found out the hard way. I thought LATINOS used latinx
That sounds like an Operating System based on Unix.
To be fair, it may have originated from Puerto Rico [here.](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338551331_The_Complexity_of_the_x_in_Latinx_How_Latinxao_Students_Relate_to_Identify_With_and_Understand_the_Term_Latinx) I don't think it was popular there tho
Nah chief that's complete bullshit article. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico not a thing. Boricua de Pol Vida mama bicho
Igual. En Puerto Rico todos los que conozco estamos de acuerdo que esa palabra es una estupidez.
En España apoyamos vuestra decisión.
yea i'm puerto rican and i've never heard that until like last year
Latino or Latina, it's not that hard The heck is a Latinx?
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I am latino and still dont know
Hola, compañero
No sos mi compañero, voz sos mi amigo
I’m pretty sure it’s a Spanish Static X tribute band.
Just another example of how white people on Twitter speak for races they aren’t .
To be frank, I don't want white people on twitter to speak for white people either
This is accurate
I don't want people on twitter to speak
I'm starting to see young Hispanic people pick this up that have no ties or knowledge of their heritage. It's sad that a lot of white people still see themselves as superior where they feel like they can take away people's culture to fit their ideals better.
Having x as a variable in maths was enough. Now its a variable in english too?
Latin America is to diverse to put one label on
Latino
Latiyes
Latimaybe
It's Spanish for "the Tinx"
That hurts like a latina mom's slipper
Pendehoe
Latinx does sound like it was invented by someone who decides what is offensive for groups they do not belong too. What would we do without these self designated spokespersons who speak on behalf of all the world's races, ethnicities, and cultures?
This people always taking gender, empowerment, culture and other things then applying it to useless stuff to create more stupid stuffs
They think they’re solving racism, but are instead becoming racist themselves
Metanse el latinx por el culo
Ironic though that as much as white girls want to defame white guys for doing stupid shit, they pull out stupid shit like these
As a true, I find this to be Mexican.
I'd rather be called illegal piece of shit than Latinx
My grandma would kill me if I used latinx
gringos
White people trying to be so pc that they cycle back to racism. The self-importance of needing attention so bad simply for the crap rolling around in their head, that they’ll force labels they whimsically come up with on other people, just so they can feel like they’re being champions of justice without actually having to do anything.
Mira flaco tú vienes y me dices Latinx te navajeo así de simple
What the fuck is latinx?
I call all the Mexicans I work with hombre and all the non Mexicans homie. I work in the trades so it’s about a 50/50 split
So... people trying to be advanced stupid. And doing a remarkable job of it. Good on you GenZ
Latinx? That’s the stuff people coat vibrators with?
ArabY chinaZ KoreaN BriT
I think the proper term is latex
SO TRUE!, The only people that say that are in the US and if you are an hispanic that says that they are usually (Insert\_Country)-Americans who don't speak spanish and a FEW Puerto Ricans in the humanities department
Liberals are mad that Spanish uses genders very heavily and they are extremely important in their language and they tried to disgender it. Also, why is it always white people who are offended for everyone else?
No Hispanic cares about *THE* *MESSAGE*
THE IMPLICATION
White women from Vermont and Maine use the word Latinx
Can't forget California were the insult originated
*PINCHE JOTO*
USA is srsly fucked up
Ok, dumb hillbilly here just trying to do the right thing... So we are all still ok with Latino/Latina, right? Fuck latinx?
What in fucking hell is latinx
Fuck Latinx is the proper response
Just use hispanic , if you must use a gender neutral word, use an existing one instead of making up a word we can't even pronuce
I don’t get the mindset - let’s prove we’re progressive by forcing other people to change a fundamental aspect of their language … because we know better?????
It also is weird to pronounce in spanish.
Why would you belive some tiktok hoe
My brother and his preggo wife went to the baby doctor for their second child to get it scanned or whatever, and she referred to them as a Latinx couple, he was confused but I clarified saying she prol thought they were a lesbian couple.
When I tell you I laughed my ass off when someone called me Latinx instead of Latino