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Politico: "Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language"

Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx Era what is your preferred term for your ethnicity?

  • Hispanic

    Votes: 114 35.7%

  • Latino

    Votes: 141 44.2%

  • Latina

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Latinx

    Votes: 13 4.1%

  • Latine

    Votes: 24 7.5%

  • Latin-Americans/LatAm

    Votes: 14 4.4%

  • Latino/Latina (written and said together)

    Votes: 12 3.8%
  • Total voters
    319
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RetroRunner

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Latest survey on Politico has only 2% of Hispanic voters use the term Latinx to describe their heritage and 40% said the term offends them. So my question to Hispanic ERA is what do you think?

I'm not offended by the term but I do find it imperialistic that English speakers are upset about a gendered language.
 
Senator Toadstool

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it's such a white people solution to an invented problem by people who don't have gramatical gender. I actively avoid using it. since it doesn't exist in spanish
 
Cipher Peon

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I prefer latinx and am happy when people use it to include me, personally speaking.

I know latine exists but it's so ugly, latinx sounds cool and badass imo
 
Doggg

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Ugly-ass word. Adding x at the end of it reminds of extreeeeeeeme 90s culture or something like that.
 
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Senator Toadstool said:
it's such a white people solution to an invented problem by people who don't have gramatical gender. I actively avoid using it. since it doesn't exist in spanish
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This. Such a white person solution - and more, people who don't understand the language.

If people want to change what you call them then let them, don't dictate - it's creepy.
 
Poltergust

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There's literally nothing wrong with Hispanic if we want something gender-neutral. I don't know why "latinx" exists.
 
Tamanon

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I think maybe Warren has used the term, and that's about it for big democrats, lol.
 
TheRuralJuror

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Half-rican, always found it silly and I don't care for it. Sure that some people don't mind, but folks I know aren't fans.
 
Koukalaka

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My understanding is it just doesn't make sense from a Spanish-speaking perspective, and that should be the end of it right there.

I always assumed Hispanic meant Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas/people, regardless of geography - kind of like the word "anglosphere".
 
RM8

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As a word it's literally incompatible with Spanish. It's never going to happen.
 
TheCthultist

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Latinx at least makes sense.

Keep seeing people use "folx" recently. Had it even show up in a few work emails in the last few months… is that one really becoming a thing?
 
Viewt

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I don't use it, personally, as a Latino (I usually just say Latin for gender-neutral contexts), but the word doesn't stir up rage in me or whatever. I do find anglo people who police Latin people on it annoying, though.
 
BLEEN

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Yeah I mentioned the word to my hispanic and latino buddies and they just laughed. Had never even heard of it so I explained.


Pretty much said, "fucking white people" lmao
 
Kuro

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If I'm forced to use a label, then latino although I'm not a fan of it. Hispanic works fine for people from primarily Spanish speaking countries outside of Spain I'm sure but I don't get why latino applies to Brazilians as well but not any other country that speaks a romance language. It always felt like a way to group Brazilians with those Spanish speaking countries because Hispanic wouldn't fit.
 
Judau

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I don't think I'll ever understand who "Latinx" is even for. White people can just say Latin American(s) or shorten it to LatAm. And while it's not immediately obvious, "Latinos" is already gender-neutral, or at least it's intended as such whenever someone refers to us as a group. If, for some reason, that's not acceptable, I would think that "Latin@s" absolutely is, at least in writing. Also, how would one even say or write "the Latinxs" in Spanish? Les Latinxs? I would think that using "las" or "los" would defeat the purpose of trying to make another gender-neutral word to refer to us as a group.
 
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Sandstar said:
I believe the term excludes brazillians, since it refers to Spain, and Brazil was colonized, by Portugal and speaks portugese.
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brazilians are hispanic the whole peninsula was a roman province called hispania. (think i'm spelling it wrong) portugal and spain are both hispania
 
Tamanon

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Latinx never made sense without conquering the concept of gendering in general in Spanish. It never caught on really, and I think any attempt to claim Dems were trying to is a bit foolish.
 
pizzaparty

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I don't mind it. The Latino/Latina Law Society at my old law school changed its name to the Latinx Law Society.
 
BLEEN

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josh924 said:
I don't think I'll ever understand who "Latinx" is even for. White people can just say Latin American(s) or shorten it to LatAm. And while it's not immediately obvious, "Latinos" is already gender-neutral, or at least it's intended as such whenever someone refers to us as a group. If, for some reason, that's not acceptable, I would think that "Latin@s" absolutely is, at least in writing. Also, how would one even say or write "the Latinxs" in Spanish? Les Latinxs? I would think that using "las" or "los" would defeat the purpose of trying to make another gender-neutral word to refer to us as a group.
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It would be 'latin-equis'.

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