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‘Latinx’: Why do many Hispanics hate the term?
KTLA ^ | September 2, 2023 | Russell Falcon

Posted on 09/02/2023 5:55:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower

National Hispanic Heritage Month officially kicks off Sept. 15, marking the 35th year of the celebration of Hispanic cultures and their contributions to the U.S. As Hispanic people continue being one of the U.S.’ most visible communities, many questions about terminology arise.

The current most common ways Hispanic populations refer to themselves are “Hispanic,” “Latino/Latina” and “Chicano,” but the newer gender-neutral term “Latinx” attempts to be more inclusive to non-binary members of the population

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; chat; clickbait; hispanics; latinx; newspeak; transpeak; transspeak
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To: artichokegrower
Because Hispanics are a monolithic group. They come from different nationalities just like Europeans that immigrated here two centuries ago.
21 posted on 09/02/2023 6:57:01 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: artichokegrower

White Liberals want to turn everyone gay.


22 posted on 09/02/2023 6:59:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: jocon307

It’s a made up term designed to include Latino and Latina in one term. The problem is they didn’t run it past Spanish speakers who would have told them that it’s stupid, the language doesn’t work that way. It didn’t have anything to do with transgenders originally. If it’s being interpreted that way now it’s trying to put a new spin on it to latch on to the newfound tranny mania BS.


23 posted on 09/02/2023 7:07:22 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: artichokegrower
National Hispanic Heritage Month officially kicks off Sept. 15

...It starts in the middle of the month? Does that mean we only get two weeks of daily margaritas? or does National ______ Month just mean 30 days of whatever it is?
24 posted on 09/02/2023 7:26:01 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: artichokegrower

How about going back to the old name: LatinTwitter


25 posted on 09/02/2023 7:28:00 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: artichokegrower

Any change in Spanish Language must come from Madrid not anyplace in the USA—and not to please some woke fantasy of English speakers.


26 posted on 09/02/2023 7:33:47 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: DesertRhino
As someone else here pointed out, they are forcing the Germanic neuter gender onto the Spanish language that does not have it.

El latino, la latino, das Latinx.

27 posted on 09/02/2023 7:37:22 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: KarlInOhio

Well played (golf clap..)


28 posted on 09/02/2023 7:38:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

It’s even more complex than that. Everyone on Earth sees their existence and identity largely through their native language.

‘Latinx’ is a completely made-up word, forced upon Spanish speakers in an attempt to divorce them from what and who they are and their root values.

It’s disrespectful and insulting - and it’s being done by the very people who claim to be the arbiters of tolerance and ‘inclusiveness’.


29 posted on 09/02/2023 7:57:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: artichokegrower
Because it is a made up term that means nothing.

Words have gender.

People have a sex.

That sex is binary.

It is biological and immutable.

I know you hate your life and want to be someone else but no matter what you chop off or glue on you are still you.

30 posted on 09/02/2023 8:05:58 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: artichokegrower

That is nearly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.


31 posted on 09/02/2023 8:11:14 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Maybe the white liberals should push LatinGBTQXYZ?


32 posted on 09/02/2023 8:27:51 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Yup.

The left tried to push a synthetic language called Esperanto on the world. That flopped. So now they are trying to corrupt other languages.

If you control language, you control thought. Ref Orwell. (The left didn’t see Pig Farm and 1984 as warnings, they saw them as playbooks for their plans.)


33 posted on 09/02/2023 8:34:46 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: artichokegrower

As I recall, Spain determines the grammar of the language and they officially rejected the term. For the same reasons as others have said, it’s a germanic rule in a Latin language. It doesn’t make sense.


34 posted on 09/02/2023 8:43:08 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: artichokegrower
My Hispanic coworkers think it sounds too much like Kotex

Or if you pronounce it as a blend as I do, it rhymes with twinks which ain't gonna win any friends among the machismo set. Never occurred to me to pronounce it like Eater X, the retired competitive eater.

35 posted on 09/02/2023 8:43:15 PM PDT by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: artichokegrower

Most Hispanics aren’t spanish. They have absconded the cultures of central, south america and the carribean.


36 posted on 09/02/2023 8:45:24 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Are they Dr. Seuss books?


37 posted on 09/02/2023 8:46:46 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: artichokegrower
White progressives think they know whats best for their Brown,Black, Yellow and Red brothers and sisters.
Latinos are proud of their language. This Latino says **** off Neo-Marxists ***holes.
38 posted on 09/02/2023 9:10:44 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: artichokegrower

Because it is a term for woke, rich, virtue signaling liberal whites - not something the Latino community had anything to do with.


39 posted on 09/02/2023 9:15:57 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
Because it is a term for woke, rich, virtue signaling liberal whites

Just like Kwanzaa.

40 posted on 09/02/2023 9:17:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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