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I know some people that identify as latinx or latine (and some variations) but I don't think until today I've ever seen anyone refer to these as slurs??
I know it's not widely used outside US so is this an argument about colonizing language or is this just "anti-woke" reaction?
I know it's not widely used outside US so is this an argument about colonizing language or is this just "anti-woke" reaction?
I'm not Latino (as many people in the US like to mistake my name, it's Portuguese, so plz don't ask my opinion on this) but I have friends/family in Brasil, Chile, and other places where the consensus was pretty much "I don't use it but if someone identified as that then yeah"
Also a few people confused about the idea but seemingly understanding that the terms available are confusing if someone doesn't identify as either gender, but nobody was like "that's a slur"
To me a lot of these arguments seem similar to ones I see in the US of people being very against using other pronouns or singular they (even with historical usage) but for other languages (and cultures) I have much less visibility there obv on if this is the same as that :/
(Being that I'm a white American though, I feel like there's a layer of "this is some colonizer bullshit" that I might be missing)
This thread seems to mirror a lot of what I'd read on this (from people of trust their pov at least) https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/943586088517492736?s=19
