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“Latinx” Is Failed Academic Activism
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| May 20, 2022
| Garion Frankel
Posted on 05/20/2022 9:43:00 AM PDT by karpov
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posted on
05/20/2022 9:43:00 AM PDT
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karpov
To: karpov
‘Latinx’ was created by leftist white women to make themselves feel better by imposing a label on people of color.
Hmm. Seems kind of racist to me.
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posted on
05/20/2022 9:49:08 AM PDT
by
MercyFlush
(☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
To: karpov
I’ve also encountered “Chicanx” (at a university, of course).
To: karpov
I didn’t understand why they just didn’t settle on “Latin” if there’s some kind of distinction with “Hispanic”, both of which are gender neutral.
The problem with “Latinx” (aside from pronouncing it as two words) is that it condemns the Spanish language as a whole. Would they neuter all of Spanish? HS students are awaiting the answer.
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posted on
05/20/2022 9:49:38 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
To: karpov
There’s something to be learned by the failure and coninued pushing of “LatinX”. Why did it fail (and yet still get airtime on NPR) where terms like “people of color” were more widely adopted.
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posted on
05/20/2022 9:50:25 AM PDT
by
jz638
To: karpov
'today’s academics are asking people to change the way they talk and how they see themselves in order to cater to the desires of an extremely small minority of Latinos.'
Every Hispanic person I've heard talk about this really resents this attempt to force their very gendered language into 'wokeness'. Language is one of the main ways through which we know ourselves and our cultures. They are asking Hispanics to reject their own culture. Real 'liberal'.
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posted on
05/20/2022 9:52:22 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: jz638
Why did it fail (and yet still get airtime on NPR) where terms like “people of color” were more widely adopted?"Because “people of color” is much closer to their favored phrase "colored people" that they refer to their hired help as.
To: jz638
‘People of color’ is actually somewhat descriptive.
‘Latinx’ is meaningless and insulting.
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posted on
05/20/2022 10:01:15 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
They are insensed by cultural appropriation, but think cultural imperialism is just fine (as long as they’re the ones doing the empire building).
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posted on
05/20/2022 10:01:35 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: jz638
I think it’s because the people so described liked the latter term but not the former.
I work with a LOT of highly educated POC, *none* of them liked ‘Latinx’. “People Of Color” works, on the other hand, for describing non-whites when that is necessary. Just my observation.
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posted on
05/20/2022 10:07:46 AM PDT
by
Republican in occupied CA
(I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
To: karpov
Someone here said it’s an attempt to force the Germanic neuter gender onto the Spanish language that only has masculine and feminine.
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posted on
05/20/2022 10:09:34 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: DesertRhino
I’d like to see them try this with the French.
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posted on
05/20/2022 10:19:31 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Verginius Rufus
Big Mike Obama tried ‘womxn’ other day on Twatter and was laughed at until he took it down. These Leftists have over played their hand.
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posted on
05/20/2022 11:12:32 AM PDT
by
Pigsley
(I)
To: Jamestown1630
To: Right Brigade
The French would look down their supercilious noses and say, “Non, non, et non!”
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posted on
05/20/2022 11:48:38 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: karpov
Those silly little brown people should be taught that their racist language needs many more genders. That is out White Man's Burden.< /Leftist attitude>
The same leftist who screech about cultural imperialism will have no self-awareness that it is exactly what they are doing when they insist that Spanish must have a neuter gender.
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posted on
05/20/2022 12:03:24 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
To: KarlInOhio
Nothing more condescending than white people (usually liberals) calling “Hispanics” “brown people.” Hispanics can be of any race and come in many colors.
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posted on
05/20/2022 12:08:27 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
To: Republican in occupied CA
European descended Hispanics (I’ve known many of these especially when I lived in Miami) should not be considered people of color. Odd that Arabs, Armenians, and Persians are considered “white” while Latin Americans of pure Euro ancestry are considered “nonwhite.”
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posted on
05/20/2022 12:10:30 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
To: 17th Miss Regt
I kind of get why “people of color” is a decent descriptor ... but not really. Every human is a person of color, including me, a “white” guy whose skin is light brown.
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posted on
05/20/2022 12:26:27 PM PDT
by
Theo
(FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
To: karpov
We’ve moved on to “Mestinx”
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