Posted on 05/04/2020 8:09:52 AM PDT by karpov
By now, most people who’ve attended a wealthy college—or those who tuned into the Democratic presidential debates—have likely heard or seen the word “Latinx.” The anglicized Spanish term is the latest attempt of gender activists to impose their perverse ideology on the rest of the culture—and on Spanish speakers in particular.
What is so significant about adding the letter “x” to the word “Latino?” To activists, it solves a confounding problem: There is no “gender-neutral” way to refer to individuals in the Spanish language. Someone, for example, may be described as a “Latino” writer (if a man) or a “Latina” writer (if a woman), but there is no phrasing for those who don’t consider themselves male or female.
But in the early 2000s, activists came up with a solution: Replace the “o” in masculine words like “Latino” and the “a” in feminine words like “Latina” with a gender-neutral “x” to create the inclusive term “Latinx.”
For a while, “Latinx” remained a niche term secluded to small circles of academics and activists. But not for long. Around 2014, eager to appear “inclusive,” colleges and universities started to adopt the term.
As a result, institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, and the University of Florida began to relabel. For example, “Hispanic heritage month” became “Latinx heritage month,” and “Latino Studies” was changed to “Latinx studies.”
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My wife’s latin friend rolls her eyes over this. Spanish as a language has a lot of gender specific word usage. Latino, Latina. Chico, chica, ect… She believes LatinX is an attempt by social justice warriors to make Spanish more gender neutral and inclusive. A few are onboard with that agenda, many are not.
UNC should stop providing scientific data and cooperation with Chinese laboratories like the one in Wuhan.
Yes, and until recently, there were only 2 genders, so give them time, and they'll bastardize Spanish as well to conform to their warped, twisted thinking. "Latinx" is just the start...
How about Blackinx or Whiteinx?
I first saw that term in a headline in the student newspaper at Cal State Fullerton, but I’ve been noticing it everywhere in academia. But how do you pronounce it? is it Lat-inks, La-TINKS or Lay-tinks?
How do you say ‘it’ in Spanish?
I prefer crackerx.
“Latinx” has been circulating amongst the Hispanic non-conforming for a long time, along with the drag queens.
There are still only two genders, and the proof is in the science.
You are either XX {chromosomes} female or XY male.
There are no other choices.
There is no XQ or XL or XT.
Queer, lesbian or trans are individual choices that allow an XX or an XY on how they want to live their lives.
You can scream and holler but you cannot change your chromosomes.
I wasn't attempting to imply otherwise. We are on the same page here.
Well, civilization had a pretty good run. We will be able to tell our great grand kids about it..or maybe not.
I am Puerto Rican because I was born in Puerto Rico and live there still. My great grandparents came from Spain. NOBODY refers to himself here as a latino anything. The only thing close to latin anyone of us has is that Spain was a Roman province for a while. They called Latin America that to be inclusive of the Portuguese/Brasilians, I guess, and since both are Romance languages. So, I guess that’s where “latino” came from, but it is only used in the U.S., not in the Spanish/Portuguese world.
So Latinx is an even bigger “disparate”.
There is a movement in the Spanish world to use BOTH genders in speech. Generally, the male-gendered words include the females, but for a few years feminists have insisted that they be addressed separately in communications. Thus, we get to an even more ridiculous point where the politically correct needs to extend their speech as such” “Los abogados y las abogadas practican el derecho”, which would loosely translate as, if the English language wasn’t gender neutral, “The lawyers and the lawyerettes practice law”.
It’s ridiculous.
If you used to date an Hispanic, do you have a Latin-x?
but there is no phrasing for those who don’t consider themselves male or female.
How about LatinIt?
LatinX is racist, it’s an attempt to Anglicize Spanish, which is a gendered language.
Latin, of course, had three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Masculine and neuter later merged in Spanish but maybe they could revive the neuter for those who don't want to be masculine or feminine.
German also has masculine, feminine, and neuter. Among the neuter nouns are Weib (wife) and Maedchen (maiden). All diminutives in German are neuter, so if you can't remember a noun's gender just tack -lein or -chen to the end of it and it is a neuter noun.
The left is never going to be able to erase male and female, no matter how much they try.
I’ve suggested this before:
LatinXX and LatinXY
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