‘Latinx’: Why do many Hispanics hate the term?

KTLA ^ | September 2, 2023 | Russell Falcon

[Kazan]

Because Hispanics are a monolithic group. They come from different nationalities just like Europeans that immigrated here two centuries ago.

[MinorityRepublican]

White Liberals want to turn everyone gay.

[GaryCrow]

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.

[Svartalfiar]

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?

[BobL]

How about going back to the old name: LatinTwitter

[Forward the Light Brigade]

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

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[DesertRhino]

Well played (golf clap..)

[Jamestown1630]

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’.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[HIDEK6]

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

[piytar]

Maybe the white liberals should push LatinGBTQXYZ?

[piytar]

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.)

[Marko413]

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.

[Dahoser]

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.

[kvanbrunt2]

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

[kvanbrunt2]

Are they Dr. Seuss books?

[pleasenotcalifornia]

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.

[Republican Wildcat]

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

[dfwgator]

Because it is a term for woke, rich, virtue signaling liberal whites

Just like Kwanzaa.