Comment by u32480932048
1 year ago
This is perhaps the single best example of it.
I guess paternalistic colonialism is only a problem when other people do it.
1 year ago
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.
It's easy enough to find examples of Latinos using the word Latinx. For example, see this Spanish-language podcast made by a Latino: https://www.instagram.com/depueblocatolicoygay/?hl=en (The social pages are in English, but the podcast is entirely in Spanish.)
I agree that it's a small minority of the world's Spanish speakers who would use this term, but it's simplistic to suggest that the term is only used by white Americans who can't speak Spanish.
Also, is it worth getting so worked up about this? The whole debate around 'Latinx' ought to be about as spicy as the familiar debates in English around gender neutral language (e.g. 'he/she' vs singular 'they'). Let's just wait and see which of the various approaches catch on. It's not something to go to war over. Non-Hispanic Americans legislating on Spanish usage would indeed be extremely silly and irritating, but any given usage should be judged on its merits rather than according to the worst of its advocates.