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it's about the minority that don't feel as though latino/a doesn't describe them. it's not for the majority favored by the status quo
So displease the majority to please the minority?
"when you try to please everyone, you please nobody"
displease the majority to give visibility to the minority. no one is hurt when latinx is used, but the people latinx additionally represents face violence every day
It's not as simple as pronouns in the English language when it comes to 'latinx'. The word is not that easy to pronounce to someone who knows Spanish but doesn't know English all that well, which are the people this word is supposed to include. It's quite literally imposing English language norms on the Spanish language which can be considered offensive in itself.
Besides, personal opinion but it sounds stupid. If there's a need to call someone from Latin America a gender neutral term, latine is a much better alternative - it's more accepted within Spanish speaking communities, -e is already found in non-gendered names within Spanish language and just generally doesn't sound like something Musk would have written.
well the term was created by a latinx individual so that's a bit of a moot point. I do agree that latine makes more sense but what do I know
i will note that latine, and latrine are very similar. So maybe not that one
im pretty sure everybody faces potential violence every day, but what do i know.
yes but obviously some people face real violence every day
yeah i feel like maybe we should probably just focus on the brunt of the violence (where the brunt of the victims are going to be) instead of like, theorizing words we can use to refer to things that already have words to refer to them in a marginally more PC(is this even the right term for this?) way?
On the other hand its basically Americans telling others how to speak their language.
latinx was coined by a latinx activist