Comment by Workaccount2
1 year ago
The second part is literally how we got the term Latinx. A bunch of white elites congratulating themselves for "removing sexism" from a language that they have a pamphlet level understanding of.
1 year ago
The second part is literally how we got the term Latinx. A bunch of white elites congratulating themselves for "removing sexism" from a language that they have a pamphlet level understanding of.
This is perhaps the single best example of it.
I guess paternalistic colonialism is only a problem when other people do it.
i know real mexican people in cdmx that use latinx. but i guess they must've been brainwashed by the white wokes
The plural of anecdote is not data.
This question has been put to numerous native Spanish speakers in just about every Spanish-speaking country, and support for it is always in the single digits - usually under 5%.[1] That's half as many people that will fess up to being neo-Nazis (9%)[2]. An exceedingly minuscule demographic.
Forcing something on foreign populations that 95%+ do not want is textbook colonialism. (Unless maybe we're simply enlightening those backwards, ignorant savages with our oh-so-superior culture?)
I've studied Latin, Spanish, German, French, and Russian, and each of the teachers emphatically explained that the notion of gender in language had little to do with the gender of humans.
The Latin for "manhood" (virtus) is feminine; mi casa is not feminine like a ballerina; tables (tisch) are not masculine because they resemble Chuck Norris, and windows (окно) are not nonbinary/genderfluid.
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