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Posted on 12/12/2021 11:08:08 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
omingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, has instructed staff and board members to drop the word "Latinx" from the group's official communications.
García sent the directive out in an email Wednesday night, addressed to Sindy Benavides, the league's CEO; David Cruz, its communications director; and the LULAC board.
"Let's stop using Latinx in all official communications," García said, adding that it's "very unliked" by almost all Latinos.
The email included a link to a Miami Herald editorial with the headline: "The 'Latinx community' doesn't want to be called 'Latinx.' Just drop it, progressives."
"The reality is there is very little to no support for its use and it's sort of seen as something used inside the Beltway or in Ivy League tower settings, while LULAC always rep Jose and María on Main Street in the barrio and we need to make sure we talk to them the way they talk to each other," García said in a phone interview with NBC News.
"I don't know of any abuelita (grandmother) that calls her granddaughter, 'Hey you Latinx, I'm going to throw you the chancla (flip-flop).' It just doesn't happen," he said.
There has long been debate about the word Latinx, which is intended to promote inclusivity and depart from the gender-specific words in Spanish, where those ending in "o" are male and those ending in "a" are female. In plural uses, words such as Latinos are inclusive of both genders.
To many of its users, Latinx includes people who identify outside of the gender binary, such as transgender people or those who are gender-fluid. It also is seen as a "decolonizing" term, de-emphasizing the Spanish colonial rule of Latin America in the word "Hispanic."
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oops his name got caught off. Domingo* Garcia.
How bout you just stop changing the definitions of the words we have and Stop inventing new ones that dont mean anything but what you want.
Why did they have that stupid word to begin with?
You can’t take gender out of language.
The snooty white liberals who likely came up with it are having a sad today.
Well it was probably some white or half white leftist that came up with it in the first place.
“Let’s stop using Latinx in all official communications,” García said, adding that it’s “very unliked” by almost all Latinos.
Spanish language has genders.
Humans have a sex, male or female.
GOOD!
I’m sick of liberals and progressives deciding for people what they should be called, what the PC thing is.
Screw that.
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So is Domingo hetronormative?
Yup—the crazy leftists are probably gonna try to “fix” the Spanish language.
Good luck with that.
“Latinx is very unliked by almost all Latinos”
So let’s drop the “preferred pronoun” crap altogether.
I think the democrats are scaring the crap out of them. They left their homelands and came here for a reason. They don’t want the United States of El Salvador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc
Of course people do not like it.
All vowels must now bx rxplxcxd wxth “x.”
“You can’t take gender out of language.”
Especially out of Romance languages!
Gender is actually a linguistic concept. Living creatures do not have a gender they have a sex.
The conflation of those two things is where they started getting stupid, then of course, they got even stupider, then they went mad. That’s where we’re at now.
Exactly. I’ve had people get mad at me for pointing that out.
My first language was Italian, second English and I know a few others.
Can we drop so-called inclusive language in English as well?
Exactly. Agree with both of you.
If you haven’t done so already...look up John Money who invented the modern sociological concept of “gender”.
He was a degenerate academic who drove a boy to suicide by trying to turn him into a girl.
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