Latinos overwhelming dislike the label Latinx: update: Latino Democrats want to ban fake word

Ok millennial, ok.

 

Latinos don't speak Latin.

True story.

 

It's one of the dumbest ****ing things I've ever heard in my life. Latinx is something you'd call a comic book starring Sunspot from the X-Men, not HUMAN BEINGS. Lulz.

 

Is she OK with using "Latino" to refer to all Latin-Americans, even though "Latino" is masculine?

 

It's the stupidest thing ever created and we mostly hate it. The ones who don't hate it don't use it but are ok with people identifying however they wish. Although language is fluid it normally changes from the bottom up not top down. Seeing media and corporations using it when we don't is just weird. Stop it. It's totally like the mean girls fetch reference. Lol

 

Case in point...

 

No, but everyone else does.

 

I agree with this but Latin people do use this term it's not exactly just a media and corporation creation.

It's a woke term, created by woke latino's and in this hypersensitive time media and corporations are scared to have anybody come for them.

I see . latino people using the term every day and they don't all work for the media but they are activist.

 

I honestly don't know: Was the term created by 'woke latinos' or by largely white university types?
The battle for pure terminology often has good intentions, but it just becomes a star-bellied-sneetches game at some point. Or it feels that way to this old white guy anyway.

 

I asked the Peruvian girl I have played with..... she doesn't give a **** what term you use.

 

I never hear it but I believe you. In academia and politically active folks I'm sure it's used but that's a very small percentage of us.

How this happened is still odd to me. Latin is not gender specific so how they bamboozled themselves into adding an X doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It's not about making all included but rather hey look at me.

 

Could be but it does not seem to be the origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx

According to Google Trends, it was first seen online in 2004,[9][22][23] and first appeared in academic literature "in a Puerto Rican psychological periodical to challenge the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language

 

Yes. BTW she is a millenial fwiw

 

Yeah it is not widely used.

It was started by the queer community as a way distinguish themselves from the other terms, I have no idea how it became all encompassing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx

 

If "Latino" is not considered by most female "Latinas" to be exclusionary, the question is why most trans "Latinxs" might feel any differently. It seems that trans activists are especially sensitive about language that they feel excludes or in some way marginalizes trans people.

 

No matter the opinion I'm just happy such an important issue is being openly discussed.