#like when i read i thought it was a babylon bee headline

[beardedmrbean]

Idk why some people can’t just refer to Latinos as Latino. It’s already a gender neutral word, so there’s no need to call them “Latinx” or even Latine or whatever. It’s a useless and performative made up word that doesn’t exist in any dictionary. Not to mention most Latinos find it offensive because it was a bunch of woke white people who came up with it and they never asked Latinos what they think of it, just started calling them Latinx out of the blue and expecting them to be perfectly ok with it, which they’re not. At all. And they treat “Latino” like it’s a dirty word. I’m not even Latino myself, but the fact we even have to talk about this is just ridiculous.

'Latinx' Isn't Popular With Latinos - WSJ

Many Latinos say 'Latinx' offends or bothers them. Here's why.

'Latinx' not a preferred term among Hispanics, survey says

Latino groups want to do away with “Latinx” - Axios

Over 90% of Hispanics and Latinos don't like to be called Latinx

When I ran the post I just copied up there I assumed people would read past the headline since there's all kinds of pretty pictures, I was wrong and apparently some people thought I was in support of forcing people to use latinx instead of agreeing withe the Latino community that it's idiotic, my bad forgot the website I was on

^^^(Babylon Bee)^^^

Adding this one down here for funzies and to remind people that it's not just the Latino population that's dealing with this shit.

RIP Boozy's old account

Shut up and stop being a linguistic colonizer alex.

Does she even speak Spanish? If so ask her how to pronounce latinx properly within the rules of the Spanish language.

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Latine is less of a fight for me since it works linguistically even if imho it's still kinda dumb, there's other places to direct that energy.

latinx is linguistic colonization plain and simple,

#anonymous

[froggierboy]

idk how to explain this but...shit like replacing mr potato head with a non-gendered potato doesn't even feel like a good-faith attempt to actually represent or reach transness and trans people? like it literally feels like bait for fox news pundits. it feels like using transness as a rhetorical point. because these types of things enrage transphobes and give transphobes another thing to weaponize against us ("you're trying to cancel mr potato head for being a man now") when no trans people asked for this and it in no way actually supports or affirms trans people

#hasbro rebrands mr potato head as gender-neutral #rye.txt #like it almost feels like they're making fun of trans/nonbinary people #like when i read i thought it was a babylon bee headline #idk #transphobia #(kinda?)