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Latino here. 93% of us polled either dislike, find stupid, or are not interested in the English language usage of the word "Latinx." It's use is a misunderstanding of the basic functional parts of the Spanish language.
Its usage presumes some sort of malicious gendering of words, however most languages, and in particular, Latin based languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, all use gendering.
Wait — you don’t like to be told by a bunch of entitled assholes what to call yourself?
While only a small percentage prefer latinx, most don't care. You're misreading or misrepresenting the poll.
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/388532/controversy-term-latinx-public-opinion-context.aspx
All of it is silly. None of you speak Latin
Your mistake here is confounding the name of a language with the name of a culture.
Aside from Spanish and Portuguese language influences, what makes Central and South American cultures Latin?
I thought Latinx was part of a movement that would explicitly remove gendering of words from languages like Spanish, French, and German. I thinks it’s by design, but unpopular
Well if they're going to do it by replacing everything with x, they're going to have to talk to Elon...
I've also heard "Latine" used, how is that one doing in hispanic culture? I'm hispanic myself, but have lived mostly separate from the culture, so I'm unfamiliar if the terms get used or not.
That's a different thing altogether. Its origins are in Spanish and attempt to do the same as "they/them" and is a attempt to be inclusive of gender fluidity.
Latinx is an entitled American white invention.
I love how responses to this change from "ask someone from Latin America" to "you dont know as much as I do" when you don't back them up.
They go from revering you until you appear, to discounting your experience when you do.