"Latinx": Why Higher Ed Should Abandon the Term

[@joeshmoe8952]

Majority of Latinos do not use the word "Latinx" there's actually some that hate the word. It's mostly Non-Latinos that use that dumb word.

[@valentinogr8904]

Exacto

[@mikejunior211]

It's mostly LIBERAL NON-Latinos who use the term.

[@joeshmoe8952]

@@mikejunior211 No, just people who aren’t Latino, period! You give leave the other shit out.

[@Kodiak_Brown_Bear]

@@joeshmoe8952 *He is right, Libtarded SJW Non-latinos mostly use that term. Most people who aren't latinos don't use that lAtInX BS.*

[@lovelybunnybup2103]

Exactly

[@KCGabe]

What if we all began calling them gringx. 🇧🇷✊🏼

[@bonda_racing3579]

You fucking madlad. Am in. 🇩🇴 🇺🇸 🤝 🇧🇷

[@anotherwilliam9199]

Good idea

[@kenunot6106]

I think Is better to just keep calling them gringos so they get pissed its not a gEnDeR nEuRrAL word

[@salsathemonkey22]

Looool

[@spideymenz5738]

La vieja confiable (old reliable)

[@fabiangutierrez148]

Is funny how they try to get spanish speakers to say latinx, while also trying to make them pronounce it in _english_ .

[@allenellsworth5799]

It's an ego thing. They think it is clever and makes them nicer. Narcissists imo

[@Renee5322]

Colonialism!

[@estebana7736]

Gringos: always trying to "save" other communities by changing their culture

[@Poty3108]

Yup, they try to change other cultures because, according to them, they're wrong. And also enforce their social/cultural problems on other things, like when they whine and cry about anime not having black people. 98% of Japan's population is native, white, if you will.

[@aragon4773]

Linda bandera mi rey

[@DanielGonzalez-gg5hr]

Bro I'd rather be called slurs than "Latinx"

[@danielasarmiento3101]

I mean it will probably get you less beaten up than calling a latino a latinx

[@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person]

me too. AS a Brazilian, I'd rather be called a monkey instead

[@hypezoneninga]

My boy Bryan said if I ever called him that he would stomp me out

[@manictiger]

@@danielasarmiento3101 Before I knew what b34n3r meant, I said it in the middle of the Bario while ranting to myself about something I was mad about (I don't remember the reason). No one did a thing. I got a couple angry stares, but that's it.

[@manictiger]

@@mariorafael9875 Because KZbin will block my comment, freeze my ability to comment and drone strike my house if I spell it correctly.

[@usernamemalfunctioning6768]

Why people should abandon the term "Latinx": 1. Common sense 2. Really nothing more to it

[@viveonz]

Plus the latino term is already neutral

[@bean5202]

And because it's *bruh*

[@Vichola]

@@bean5202 bruh

[@duarteribeiro1520]

@@bean5202 bruh

[@justabananawithaface41]

@@bean5202 bruh

[@openlink9958]

"cultural appropriation is bad", aka: people integrating with other cultures shoulnt do so SO INSTEAD LETS CHANGE OTHER PEOPLE'S CULTURE!!!

[@Jaimedaviddaza]

Sadly true! That only shows who are the actual racists.

[@novamike7121]

Integration of culture aint even bad. Thats how we got tex mex foods like burritos

[@openlink9958]

@@novamike7121 thats my point

[@novamike7121]

@@openlink9958 yeah burritos go hard

[@oifelixcomeherebroe3831]

exactly dude. These fake wokes want equality and then they go on to segregate each and every race. I'm Indian and it gives me joy when people of foreign culture wear Indian clothes etc, I feel happy that my culture is represented. But then these twitter demons accuse them of cultural appropriation and now most people are scared of using things that have significance in our culture. The whole point of having different cultures imo is that we can learn the good points of other cultures, integrate them in our culture while still holding the essence of out native culture. But unity is the last thing SJWs want

[@pafer8405]

As Spanish speaker , we all see that term as an insult. What you, americans, call as "Latino" is just Mexican people, we are not a race, we could be white, black, Indies , native etc. Imagine calling all english speakers "englinox" , meaning it as a race, it sounds stupid

[@ax_lz]

Latino isn’t just Mexicans it’s anyone from Latin America

[@denial1004]

@@ax_lz but when you think about latinos you think about mexican culture immediately, no one says latino food referring to Argentinian food or Chilean food, only Mexican food

[@ax_lz]

@@denial1004 yea but even Americans know that Latino isn’t the same as Mexican

[@revocable1687]

@@ax_lz Na they don't, most Americans don't know shit about latinos and think they are all Mexican. Fuck they even said that Argentinians weren't latinos because most of them were white

[@ax_lz]

@@revocable1687 well they also all agreed with the use of latinx so I think it’s safe to say they’re not the smartest bunch

[@XxHellenCroosxX]

Los Latinos ni usan el término Latino entre ellos. Siempre decimos, "Soy Mexicano" O "Soy Argentino". Solo cuando están en el extranjero, o más bien en Estado Unidos usamos ese término. Además, Latino es una palabra de género-neutral. Solo los estúpidos que no comprenden las reglas gramaticales del Español usan "Latinx".

[@luisapaza317]

Está bien decir que puede ser usada para el plural pero, es equívoco llamarle propiamente neutral, porque recordad, es masculino, un sustantivo masculino

[@XxHellenCroosxX]

@@luisapaza317 Sí, pero lo que quiero decir con esto, es que innecesario crea una palabra como "Latinx" cuando "Latino" tiene la misma función neutral cuando se usa en plural.

[@luisapaza317]

@@XxHellenCroosxX sí amigo, y concuerdo en esto últmo, de todos modos jaja es lo que se discute

[@garrickberry3175]

Translation for us non-spanish speaking people please.

[@juanjosegarciaduarte1948]

@@garrickberry3175 In spanish we don't have neutral pronouns, so whenever we need to use o refer to a mixed audience, people etc (whatever gender) the général rule to that were and are the use male pronouns and nouns and adjetives. For example: To Say students, we can Say Los estudiantes/ los alumnos when WE are talking about a male o mixed crowd but with only female crowd we say Las estudiantes/ las alumnas. In spanish the general rule is that, but even it isn't Always the case. Example : for the word people or person in singular and plural We Always say " la persona " or "las personas". This words are female words and it doesnt Care if you are refering to a Man. We dont Care really. We have bigger problems

[@5h0rgunn45]

Breaking: rich college elitists shout incoherently from atop their ivory tower! In other news, water is wet.

[@flamingwheel9926]

These Gringos are weird

[@gurgy3]

@@flamingwheel9926 Excuse me! You mean GringX 🤣

[@erslippers3805]

Every sixty seconds in Africa.

[@kodylangham]

@@flamingwheel9926 Only the ones that for some reason give a shit about these types of things.

[@obviously_not_dio_brando8566]

*in africa every 60 seconds a minute passes*

[@nievedechicharron4837]

Latino ya es neutral

[@valentinogr8904]

O latín para que ya no chillen

[@lovelybunnybup2103]

Exacto

[@Voertigern]

Incluso latina puede ser neutral, realmente no hay razón para usar "latinx"

[@GilliganTF2]

@@valentinogr8904 latín es mas un lenguaje, como por ejemplo en el exorcista, la niña poseida hablaba en latín

[@furryhunter8897]

@@valentinogr8904 latin es el lenguaje predecesor al español así que no se podria

[@Saurondor]

There's also a grammar reason to refrain from latinx. Let's take the heritage month and studies example. In Spanish the heritage month would be "mes de la cultura latina" and studies would be "estudios latinos". In Spanish mes (month) is male, but cultura (culture) is female and it's the last noun used and what the term latina is describing and thus we use latina. In the case of estudios (studies) we use latinos because studies is a male noun in Spanish. It has nothing to do with the gender identity of the students. Men can be referred to as latinas depending on the term used to group them. Populations and persons are female terms (población / personas), they'd be described as latina/latinas even if there are men in the group. It's wrong to say "la población latino". It's always "la población latina" even when it's all men. Same applies for a community which is a female term in Spanish even if all its members are men. So it's comunidad latina. Unless we use the word "de" (of) which implies members or individuals which are male terms so it would be "comunidad de latinos". Which is short for "comunidad de 'miembros' latinos". If I said personas (persons) explicitly then I'd use latinas. As in "comunidad de personas latinas". It makes no sense to use a gender neutral term such as latinx because "personas" is female. Even if I'm referring to a group of all men. It'd be horrible grammar.

[@joecool9739]

Their heads will explode when they find out that "Latin America" can be pronounced 2 different ways in Spanish: America Latina Latino America

[@valentinogr8904]

@@joecool9739 casi siempre uso América latina

[@Otakupatriot117]

The problem is you used the actual language to dispute the term. The term was created by white college students who only know enough Spanish to order at Chipotle.

[@luisapaza317]

@@valentinogr8904 yo suelo usar el latinoamérica o en todo caso Sudamérica

[@viingroh4298]

@@Otakupatriot117 Toda la Pvta razón

[@shatteredlazuli8092]

As someone who's brazilian and also speaks a bit of spanish, gender-neutral words don't work, because in spanish and portugues words have gender, some we just use male terms as neutral.

[@ToddKeck98]

Yeah, English was like that as well until the Early Modern period. Masculine terms are also used on gender neutral concepts.

[@MintPro47]

They do the same in my language

[@avatarwalterwhite6776]

In all of the romance languages actually: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, even Romanian I think.

[@ladycacti6408]

@@avatarwalterwhite6776 yup and french

[@redrobbie7977]

@@avatarwalterwhite6776 I'm pretty sure Romanian has the Neutet Gender, but idk if they use that as a default tho

[@splatm4n8]

I don't speak Spanish but I do speak French and would like to add some input here since they are similar. In French, il is masculine, and elle is feminine. However if you don't know the gender of the noun "il" is automatically assumed the role as the pronoun used even though you don't know what the gender is. Im assuming since these two languages are similar then the same goes with Spanish where you could just use Latino.

[@agustinbenavente4830]

Maybe, the reason why we say latino is because we are talking about a group of humanos, a masculine word

[@pablon4585]

@@agustinbenavente4830 well yes, just saying latino its enough to refer a group of hispanic people, its enough just with that, (idk if this is necesary but i will say it) in the hispanic month twitch made a event or somethin similar, they used the latinx term to refer to hispanic people, but they brought people who were not hispanic, just people who have a grandpa/grandma who are from any country of lantino america, but streamers from idk chile like "Dylantero" or "juega German" or someone similar, and twitch brought stickers with the stereotipe of mexican people with the excuse of "they are latinos", well ye but mexico is not all latino america, there is a lot of countries with their things like "completos". that was the problem.

[@AnAnonymousAuditor]

@@pablon4585 Yeah, that's a big problem with a lot of the US, they think that "latino" or even "hispanic" just means México-tacos-sombreros (and all the other stereotypes) and completely ignore ALL of the other hispanic countries (to the point of ignoring that Spain itself exists).

[@ayo69420]

That's literally the case with spanish :D

[@soyasauce3626]

@@agustinbenavente4830 No the reason we say Latino is because in Spanish if you’re talking about people and the group is mixed or all male you make it masculine. Like ellos and nosotros or los medícos.

[@nilnull5457]

I came here from sensitive society lol.

[@mx_moi1964]

Omg you too! 😂

[@klkwawawa510]

Same 😂

[@iaminpain8407]

@@mx_moi1964 i come here to find ways to destroy society

[@brick4522]

Yep

[@mmyr8ado.360]

I didn't knew he linked this, I just came here from the recommended videos of hid vid taliing about the same topic

[@bigdog3695]

For the longest time I thought that it was pronounced "Latinks" not "Latin-x" lmaooo (I'm aware that it is in Spanish now but I speak English so yeah)

[@1erickf50]

Still very unpronunciable. It makes me literally spit every time I try it so I stay with the classic latinos and latinas :v

[@bigdog3695]

@@1erickf50 I just say latinos/latinas as well, mainly because my previous pronunciation didn't make sense to me either and Latin-x is stupid to me (I've yet to hear any hispanic person say Latin-x as well) lmao.

[@justinfitzpatrick013]

It is

[@bigdog3695]

@G Beckerig Ah, I see. Well, I never have said either before so I guess that's good. And it was just a conclusion I made up in my head when reading the title of an article lol.

[@smugfei6682]

I thought it was pronounced "la-teen-ex" until this video.

[@Destilight]

Yanquis: Hello fellow latinx. Yo: No, no tengo latex.

[@mellow6268]

I'm a non-binary peruvian (y'know the kind of person Latinx is targeted towards) and if someone were to call that, I'd get pretty pissed ngl

[@Slevana5]

Same I'm non binary and I'd just say call me Latin

[@sibro4747]

Ola pit

[@matrixpictures7799]

not even the people who the word is meant for dont like it lmao

[@basu826]

@Mellow I'm also non-binary and just wanted to make sure that you realize this video is literally trying to say that we dont exist as non-binary people lmao 4:36 apparently we are absurd in our existence, and "completely unmoored from reality" loll never heard of "latinx" before this tho, and I can see that most people arent a fan of the term so as of now I am not a proponent of it at all but I'm staying a bit skeptical before forming my full opinion mainly because of the fact that this video was created by people who are obviously decently transphobic seeing as they think a good portion of trans people dont exist, (me and you) the portion of trans people that includes the ones this term happens to apply to loll, so seeing as they dont even believe the thing the terms meant to describe exists in the first place.. I'm not convinced that even if this term DOES make sense and WAS favoured by people that they wouldnt still be finding some shitty transphobic stuff to say about it rofl, thats just how it goes in my experience but, if you have anything youd like to say on the latinx topic I'd love to hear it lol (:

[@matrixpictures7799]

@@basu826 ok

[@oscaralejandrosalinascarri9150]

I'm a mexican and pls do NOT call us Latinx We don't like being told like this is the only thing we ask because if it's very stupid

[@elli7260]

???? the term 'latinx' is nowhere as near as the n word ??? + the n word has a historical meaning and at least speaking for myself i see everytime more spanish speakers using the 'neutral' term for a group of masculine+femenine instead of using masculine-plural for everything. Although i do agree the fact that i hate when gringos try and teach us about/impose something about our culture (btw, im not mexican but i am hispanic)

[@oscaralejandrosalinascarri9150]

@@elli7260 You got a point and i don't know how to respond to that so I'll also tell you there are Mexicans who also use that term, we know them as white Mexicans and they mostly use that word and the truth is I don't understand why most Latinos we are called like that even us criticize that they use this word because it is very stupid, so if we are the same, thank you for telling me that.

[@auxiliomedesmayocallesevie1718]

I’m also Mexican and agree with not wanting to be labeled as Latinx but I don’t think it’s as bad as the n-word. The n-word is obviously worse because of its history and stuff but although Latinxs is also pretty wrong it’s not as wrong as the n-word.

[@oscaralejandrosalinascarri9150]

@@auxiliomedesmayocallesevie1718 I'm going to change the comment and you have a point

[@auxiliomedesmayocallesevie1718]

@@oscaralejandrosalinascarri9150 I’m glad u realized. Thank you for being open and actually being a good person. I see a lot of fights in comments and I’m glad the was none here.

[@PfMokii]

Don't you just love it when English speakers, a Germanic language, try to change up the vocabulary of Spanish, a Romance language, even when Latino, Latin, or Hispanic can all be used as a gender-neutral term

[@AlexRN]

Americans being ignorant while also thinking they can fix something that didn’t need to be fixed to begin with? Say it ain’t so!

[@1983jcheat]

Yes, Latinx is a stupid word. Us Latins in the Northeast just say State we're from and Country your parents are from. Examples: Jersey Puerto Rican, NY Rican, Boston Cuban ect.

[@belsnow1158]

Exactly their whole point of using the word is so all latinos who are gender non confirming can identify with it but it's not even in spanish only latinos raised in America who don't take much part in latino culture or language would be able to use latinx, people also forget the o can also be used for gender neutral purposes its the same way you can say "hey guys" to a group of women, its not like people try to get rid of that phrase

[@pedrobarragan746]

Just call us Latins, that's how the Mexican in the Queens Gambit referred to himself and his demographic and it's how fellow paisana Lupita Tovar called herself and her Spanish speaking cast members. And Puerto Rican actor Jon Seda describes a song as Latin in Treme. Latinx sounds like a radio station that plays Shakira and J-LO.

[@alternissima]

Eso mismo iba a decir, parece como el nombre de un programa o una radio.

[@FergusHodgson]

Yes, Latins also works, although Latinos is harmless.

[@Milanesa3032]

@@FergusHodgson I would recommend "latins", most english speakers have a weird spanish pronunciation because of their accent.

[@seauve742]

« Latins » are portuguese, spaniard, french, italiens and romanians, you are south american

[@sousleciel2416]

@@seauve742 Seeing as how they decided to add an x and tell Spanish speakers we have to pronounce it the English way, it seems that logic has been thrown out the window as a Mexican American I'd prefer latins instead of latinx any day

[@bernardotorres5274]

Muy bien dicho! El hecho que trate de forzar este nuevo término a los Latinos es verdaderamente racista. Demuestra también cuando los cuestionas y les dices que estos términos no les gustan a los grupos que tratan de representar, pasan directamente a maltratarlo a uno y allí demuestra que en verdad está gente no son más que racistas tratando de actuar como si no lo fueran. Tanto que dicen que la gente tomando cultura o forzando cultura es malo y eh aquí haciendo lo mismo. Quien diablos le sigue haciendo caso a esta horrible gente?

[@greciahurtado9700]

¡sí >:D!

[@DanielaRodriguez-sg9hd]

Cierto

[@katherinastirling2684]

Si :)

[@mightyswordmaster]

Latinx was never adopted by higher Ed. And this is coming from a PhD in biomedical science. Almost 100% of the individuals that use the term are people in social media (influencers etc)

[@Coolskeleton2030]

And americans

[@normalcontent1415]

@@Coolskeleton2030 Naw. Apparently they don’t love their own country. Sad.

[@Coolskeleton2030]

@@normalcontent1415 oh ok

[@Grafvollundr]

It’s been trickling in lately I’ve seen it in a Culture Centered Care course, but other health science courses are catching on.

[@peaches1535]

No this is BULLSHIT. My professor for a Latino class at a public university in the United States has had to FIX her academic submitted journal because they said she did not use “latinx” instead of Latino. So she had to change it in order for higher education to publish her paper.

[@yibithehispanic]

Seriously I will shake the hand of someone who calls me a beåner instead of someone who calls me "latinx", yes that's how low I will treat you for your disrespect.

[@flawer1316]

its like replacing a filipino and filipina to Filipinx

[@Saltedroastedcaramel]

Apparently that also exist

[@ToddKeck98]

Yeah and I don't want to be called Filipinx either. Most people here call will mispronounce it anyways as with all English words and I'm pretty sure they'll end up being offended lol

[@mateootalora4180]

Bruh its actually curious because the philippines were a spanish colony, like some extremist eugenicals (idk if thats the right word) want to extinct spanish languaje

[@retrovirus_exe]

Oh, they’ll be amerikanx, kanx instead of amerikano and kano

[@Khalael1416068]

The neutral term is "latin". Like in "Latin America". I don't even know what these people are talking about.

[@1erickf50]

Literal high people lol

[@marielanicama8660]

actually the neutral term is latino (that includes everyone)

[@originalname2021]

The neutral term is Latino.

[@bens5661]

@@originalname2021 why not "Latine," since e is the closest thing Spanish has to a gender-neutral because words ending in that letter follow no set pattern of grammatical gender. Heck, why not just start using e on the ending of adjectives referring to people who don't identify with the gender binary, while using the same genderless indirect object pronouns (le and les) as direct object pronouns?

[@pathsafer7828]

@@bens5661 no because is a aberracion in spanish even the RAE hate that term

[@valentinogr8904]

Una involucion en la gramática

[@luisapaza317]

En efecto mi estimado. Añado yo que se tendría que alterar innecesariamente las reglas en cuanto al género de las palabras, porque bien existen los epícenos y demás

[@msmlolmanpolybrige0335]

@@luisapaza317 eso es correcto mi estimado. Se llevaron siglos de estudio para crear el español actual, verdaderamente repugnante ver a personas que ni siquiera comparten cultura como la mía o la de su merced, cambiar el lenguaje.

[@luisapaza317]

@@msmlolmanpolybrige0335 y ya está demostrado que las lenguas que no tienen género como femenino o masculino influyen en el trato equitativo hacia ambos sexos

[@Jaimedaviddaza]

@@msmlolmanpolybrige0335 Y añádele a eso que las feministas radicales en hispanoamérica (que están encantadas con que nos llamen "Latinx") quieren que nosotros escribamos "Bienvenidxs compañerxs y amigxs"

[@rocket_sensha4337]

Otra* involucion. Y ya bastante habia con la rae doblandose para incluir las nuestras.

[@fabiangutierrez148]

Why use _x_ if the letter _o_ already has the duality of being used as masculine and neutro? To a singular object O is masculine, but to a group of objects O is neutro. It’s simple. For example, imagine I have a chess board that can also be used as a checkers board, why, if it’s not necessary, should I get a separate board of chess and a separate board of checkers?

[@user-yt4lp1mh8y]

Hi! I'm a month late but I might be able to explain why people would want to use a separate word for neutral. Some people are what's called "non-binary", which means that they don't identify as male or female. If this is your first time hearing about this, that's okay and it's okay to be a little confused by this. I won't go into too much detail into why they feel that way, but there are people who do, and I'm close friends with someone who identified as non-binary. For those people, using masculine or feminine terms to describe them can be uncomfortable or distressing, which is why they would want a neutral form for gendered words. However, almost all spanish speaking non-binary people I've met prefer "Latine" and don't use "Latinx", since its pronunciation makes more sense. I hope this could help clarify why someone would want a neutral equivalent to latino/latina and if you have questions I'll try my best to answer them. Have a nice day!

[@lovelybunnybup2103]

@@user-yt4lp1mh8y it's offensive for the TRULY Latin people, so don't use PERIOD.

[@agustinbenavente4830]

@@user-yt4lp1mh8y Unless your non binary friend are non binary aliens then they are "latinos" because he is an humano

[@5h0rgunn45]

Some people have a problem with using the masculine form as the neutral form because it reinforces "muh patriarchy." These people are usually not native Spanish speakers.

[@originalname2021]

@@user-yt4lp1mh8y "apart from rare medical disorders of sex development there are only men and women" and just because they """speak Spanish""" doesn't mean they're Latino/Latina. Just STFU.

[@nothingreallyrhymeswithora9377]

It's a useless term that just causes more confusion than anything else. It's to appease such a small minority of people (literally, it's like 1 or 2 percentage points at best). Regular Spanish speakers never use the term, and most don't even know what the term is.

[@nixienooo]

I’d rather be called a slur than be called Latinx, and I’m non-binary.

[@AlanLeblond317]

Thank You, I HATE the word "Latinx"

[@lagartopunkarra]

In Spain we have a gender-neutral word for people that use "Latinx" seriously. It's the word "Gilipollas".

[@optionalsoda3926]

Aquí en México es Pendejos no es neutral para ellos pero para los que no lo son si lo es

[@glossangels_]

Ídolos 🛐

[@Darh1407]

Orgulloso de mis compás españoles. 🇩🇴🤝🇪🇸

[@annaferns1840]

in portugal i heard they're called estupidos

[@0djunder0]

Se preguntarán *¿Cómo le devuelvo el insulto?* Simple: Ok, *Yanki* , burger, Macdonald, Biden

[@BlazingKhioneus]

I never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

[@samaja.g4208]

Yo siempre les respondo: Sorry, i don't speak school shooting. (perdon, no hablo tiroteo escolar).

[@gorg9928]

I still see people from the USA who applaud when plane lands Maybe if in the 911 the terrorist whould strike 4 planes now instead of applauding they will make a victory Scream just like im Spongebob.

[@0djunder0]

@@gorg9928 ¡Oh! Que buena frase, ¡Anótala Mario Hugo! *I don't speak 9 eleven*

[@B0B0BI]

Que falta de cultara,donde esta "gringo"

[@legendsnakeman6226]

Sadly, society as we know it, trembles in fear and screams in agony trying to find a genter-neutral word to describe latin hispanics.

[@normalcontent1415]

We live in a Susiety

[@sherlock7898]

First time I heard that term i was confused and I’m a Hispanic. But I hated it right away because it (ironically) came from a white academic society that was essentially trying to correct or fix the Spanish language. It did not come from the Spanish culture. It’s our language not yours.

[@itsdokko2990]

the same kind of people who cry for "cultural appropiation" are doing something similar f*cking ironic

[@our_illumination949]

Didn't realize we were getting a spinoff sequel to Logan... _every time I see latinx_ *Cue the x-men animated theme song*

[@JoseAntonio-nu5ek]

the daugther of wolverine is latina XD

[@our_illumination949]

@@JoseAntonio-nu5ek that's why kept thinking the new mutants would be titled "Latin-X" lmfao

[@ronalddavidleindecker3358]

"MoronX"....a term I just coined for all SJW's. It's gender neutral and inclusive so they should be happy with that.

[@regann7227]

My spanish teacher makes us use latinx Im so glad i dont have her next year

[@Benf_osu]

That’s one horrible teacher 😃

[@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s]

Literally shouldn't be allowed to teach spanish

[@regann7227]

@@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s She was fired over the summer

[@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s]

@@regann7227 justice!

[@cestalia]

@@regann7227 good

[@puffer_frog]

A more extreme option: Reject spanish Return to nahuatl

[@ayo69420]

Return to quechua

[@heroineburgh]

Much of Paraguay still uses Guarani. It has no gender.

[@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person]

Reject portuguese, return to Tupi

[@miguelhuaman8280]

Return to Quechua

[@inaki5989]

Return to español de españa

[@grubkiller7612]

Awesome vid I depise the latinx term

[@ryantheanimator1156]

Adding the "x" in front of everything or replacing the "a" is retarded, period. What's next? Asianx/Asixn? Mxn/Manx? Hispxnic/Hispanix? This is what happened when you let illiterate woke hippies become college teacher, just gonna spread more stupidity.

[@nubearchivo2719]

de hecho en español ese termino es impronunciable

[@pafer8405]

@@nubearchivo2719 lo pronuncian en lenguaje inclusivo "latinex"

[@pafer8405]

@@nubearchivo2719 si, vergüenza agena

[@lovelybunnybup2103]

If you do it gonna be really offensive to us, so please, don't do it

[@Patolagos]

It's kinda funny because "Hispanics" is already a gender neutral term

[@UwU-xk5cx]

for those who dont know, in the latinoamerican world, the gender neutral version created by activists is "latine"

[@15firekid]

when will people understand that different languages don't all work the same way.

[@armandoarmandonis9947]

When americans will actually learn more than one language and a half

[@inaactivee]

never

[@tuluppampam]

@@armandoarmandonis9947 according to a chart I've seen they don't even know 1

[@andremarques4063]

Oh yes, the SPANISH DICTIONARY dont agree with the Spanish word "latinx" But the ENGLISH DICTIONARY agrees Yes, it all makes sence.

[@lapiswolf2780]

"Latin-X,coming to a theater near you."

[@t1picord189]

*Latinx: Good morning everyone* *🇦🇷Argentina: ಠ_ʖಠ ...* *🇲🇽México: LATINX ES TU CULO!* *🇧🇷Brazil: ಠ∀ಠ NOPE* *🇵🇪Peru: 👌* *🇨🇴Colômbia: Shakira* *🇵🇾 Paraguai: does anyone want a cigarette?*

[@darthbane5676]

I was caught off guard when the video changed subjects and started getting all political about the subject of gender. I know “latinx” is kinda dumb since “latino” is already kinda gender neutral, but I didn’t expect a rant about how non-binary people apparently don’t exist since the scientific community totally agrees that sex and gender are the same exact thing. 🙄 I’m sure plenty of people here already agree with that part of the video and thought nothing of it, and that’s fine I guess, but I went and checked out the channel’s description and clicked the link to find out what they were all about. I also consulted our good and totally not unreliable friend Wikipedia for more information. Turns out the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal is actually a nonprofit conservative policy institute named after a republican former governor of North Carolina. That basically means that everything they put out seems educational, but is actually politically motivated. The “Politicization” section of their website has articles talking about how colleges should stop trying to combat racism, China is influencing American universities, faith in science is a dumb concept since Joe Biden was the one who pushed for it, and the left’s push for more inclusive language is literally a form of tyranny. I wish the last one was an exaggeration. I’m not trying to cancel this channel. Politically motivated institutions aren’t inherently bad, and I think they’re actually pretty important. I’m just pointing out the fact that the James G. Martin Center is far more biased than it seems to be, and everything it puts out should be taken with a grain of salt. That being said, even though I barely speak Spanish and I’m totally one of those liberals who this institute seems to despise so much, I still think “latinx” is pretty estupido.

[@annaferns1840]

finally someone who talked about this!!! latinx still sucks

[@temillo4104]

they are just evolving , but backwards XD

[@Matheis-qx9dm]

First of all, spanish is not a neurtral language as english, so we need the use of pronouns in a sentence for it to be gramatically correct. Second, when refering to a group, spanish use masculine nouns such as "niños" which refers to a group of children, and it doesn't matter if there are girls in that grupo cause that word already refers to the entire group, and it is gramatically correct. Latinx ends up as a useles term for latinos because gramatically it doesn't fit in our language and it was unnecesary but still was brought up by people from the US So think a little before using it

[@kiwideyclawnd2637]

although simply instead of saying latinx they would have said latins or latin

[@fernandouseodysee5027]

I just heard that term today. I was really confused what it was about. Two problems. I saw the word but I didn´t head of it at first. I tried to pronounce it in like "La-tings", "la-tinks" an it really sounds more near lit "la-stinks" like if you try to tell someone "you latino, you stinks" lol. and other thing. "Latin-ex" sounds as a gringo[sorry for the term but the one who invented that word deserves that] trying to say ex-latin but he doesn´t know a lot of spanish and forgot that the word ex is a prefix and so it just told it as latin-ex as an insult to tell someone who is a latino/latina but that it somehow isn´t anymore (in like abandoning all the culture way or something; you know, everything can be converted as an insult).

[@Neoncaffine9915]

im taking latinx as an insult, like the n word

[@normalcontent1415]

@@Neoncaffine9915 Good Idea. We should get offended so they wouldn’t call us dat.

[@andruaj918]

0:53 this is what happens when you don't know a shit about something but want to be special for feeling "opress". The term latino is neutral

[@cutecatsara123]

As a non binary person, Latinx/womxn sounds like a censored slur lmao. Please stop..

[@auxiliomedesmayocallesevie1718]

I’m Mexican and have been taught that most of the time masculine can be used as gender neutral.

[@eduardodotel8524]

Fun fact: In Hispanic/Latino culture, those that use Latinx in our society are clowned upon

[@lukevanordstrand4997]

Thank God they get clowned

[@marcosoproprio5265]

In portuguese, if you are refering to a group of people that includes more than one gender you use the male form of the word.

[@marioantoniocrespoMexican92]

I’m 100 % Mexican 🇲🇽 & Latino 👏🏼

[@manurz1]

Literally not a single latino ask for that change

[@shanly6455]

I'd rather be called with a racist insult than call me Latinx

[@indenturedLemon]

It even spread to Filipino (Filipinx) and guess what, Tagalog and other languages in the Philippines don't even have grammatical gender to begin with.

[@stevenalfonso2256]

Shit, but I think the Filipino language is derived from Spanish?, which would return to the Philippines a Latin country, and that's why they want to put in the Filipino

[@indenturedLemon]

@@stevenalfonso2256 nope, it's not derived from Spanish (it's Austronesian), but it do have a very heavy Spanish influence in it (because colonialism).

[@stevenalfonso2256]

@@indenturedLemon a

[@usaunited7332]

That would be a insult to the beautifull Filipina women.

[@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s]

Some cheesecake white kid at school tred slyly sneaking latinx in at the end of his sentence with s group of latinos. The one dude said dont do that. The white kid looks at him for like 5 whole seconds and says latinx again and they all mobbed him and stole his shoes. Justice.

[@blankface_]

I'm a college graduate Yankee who thinks this term is silly

[@hotred505]

The funny thing is I have a non-binary friend They also hate the word

[@soerpgns6232]

Un gringo me llega a decir "latinx" y lo rre cago a trompadas xD... De todas formas es increíble que Oxford haya aceptado el termino ._.

[@martinb.3997]

I, an argentinian born in Argentina and raised in Argentina, would rather be called a [Inset radical german ideology here] than "Latinx"

[@bluesdecruz]

As a latin myself, I would prefer to be called Taco.

[@hi-nf8ff]

Ok taco

[@abcde8293]

I prefer Spanish Peruvian Inca Castizo or Spicx for short

[@AVGVST_1]

spices

[@Shanoyu19271]

@@AVGVST_1 lmao

[@edgarsintitulo4468]

Bob: Oye Patricio, adivina que soy. Patricio: ¿Estúpido? Bob: No, Latinx. Patricio: ¿Cual es la diferencia?

[@hi-nf8ff]

Exacto

[@oncho1960]

Hahahaha 🤣😅🤣 bien dicho!!!

[@coffelita]

Can we appreciate the nice handwriting?

[@notavailable0]

Why? They aren't writing or drawing anything, is green screen

[@ddmozz]

Despite the cheery generic background music, this video is throwing some heavy truth bombs. Progressives won't know what hit them.

[@juanjosecarreraluna826]

You can't expect to change a word, even a full language, and solve every gender problem, it is something cultural and exists, but it's rather unrelated to such trivialities. The ultimate goal is reaching a world with oportunities for everyone, not politicizing the damn language.

[@slimer44producciones3]

Latinx ❌ El Año 20XX ✔

[@Avus-k7e]

-ReTrAmOnGoL: LaTiNx +Personas que saben ablar español:Si si ya *saca nabaja y lo apuñala* -ReTrAmOnGoL:* c muere* +: *Héroe mundial*

[@stevenalfonso2256]

Xd

[@psl109]

The only time (as a native Spanish speaker and latino) I've ever seen anybody use latinx at all is just as a replacement for the @

[@Jaimedaviddaza]

Y esta gente que usa "latinx" nos quiere imponer esas porquerías... todo sea por una causa cada vez más desprestigiada e ignorada.

[@rory6984]

What's wrong with Hispanic its gender neutral aswell.

[@Barcads]

Hi. I'm Latino and Hispanic, and I was kinda okay with the video up until 5:12. I think the video should have kept its integrity and stayed unbiased. Yeah, Spanish is a gentrified language; almost nobody likes the term; in Spanish, it is pronounced even worse (Latin-eh-kis); people are trying to change the way we say an idiom ("x") with an already centuries-old pre-established pronunciation, and so on. But from then on the rest of the video stops being about language and descriptivism vs prescriptivism, and starts being about views on the validity of sociologic, scientific, and academic definitions of the term 'gender', which has been differentiated from chromosomic sex, on a bunch of scientific fields since the 1970s. The whole point of the LGBTQ+ community is not to argue that there exist a plethora of chromosomic sex classifications (which btw include not only male and female but also 'intersex', an actually medically accurate classification: look for it), but to recognize the existence of some genders ( *social roles* ) besides those universally associated with male and female, and fight against their discrimination. While I believe that rules should not be imposed on speakers, specially rules nobody likes, I do understand that 'Latinx' exemplifies an effort to be more inclusive, in favor of discriminated minorities. That, in and of itself, is noble. It just happens to be a very dumb effort.

[@suckmyduck7029]

What I don't get is, Latinx isn't actually supposed to be a Latin word, it is an American English word used to describe a group of Latino people, people use "Latin(x)" because Spanish is such a heavily gendered language, and Latino/Latina are both still a very confusing fusion of both American and Mexican culture(obviously this depends on where you are, different places have different definitions of the word, I'm speaking mostly for Mexico, America and Hispanic people currently living in the US). Latin-x is just supposed to be an American term that helps you identify them the same way you would any other Hispanic person using a word that fits for them. To be honest, I've always kind of thought that in American English, Latino was already gender-neutral, but I suppose if you are a Hispanic person, then having a way to identify with your people in your home country would be very nice.

[@suckmyduck7029]

Also yeah, I definitely agree, them bringing up the gender debate feels so out of place and really shows their bias going into the topic.

[@Barcads]

@@suckmyduck7029 That's a good point. Haven't thought of that.

[@eastowest]

As a former Classics student, I thought Latinx was an advanced Latin course (Latin 10)

[@p2ncakx]

Nadie: Mexico : No puedes aguantar 1 palabra sin seguir humillandote ? USA : *Latinx`nt*

[@wyv_3rn]

The fact that my spanish class literally taught the class that this term is okay to use is just... why. Please, don’t, if you mind.

[@sliut1]

You could just use Latin American and problem fixed

[@visitante2637]

Yes

[@LNSO2006]

Yes

[@diro5910]

As a mexican, the term is language colonialism.

[@electricstonier4258]

has a half mexican we will never ever use latinx

[@flamingfox127]

the male version of the word is the neutral. period.

[@Uulfinn]

Latino is already neutral

[@abriannaaguilera2123]

Hispanics: Could you pretty please not call us Latinx, we literally dislike it and it strips off our identity of our language which is a major part of our identity. US High EDs: We are respecting and being inclusive, please do not resist.

[@_MrMoney]

What do you mean I can't impose my talking rules into a foreign culture and language? -Rich white "progressive" students

[@verynaisu]

Latinx is essentially a colonizing term. The fact that people are essentially trying to force Latin America to try and accept this term is an issue in my opinion. As a Mexican American, I don't believe it's a genuine good idea to force Latin Americans to change their language to fit the standards of the United States. While I understand that non-binary people do not feel comfortable with being referred to as latino/latina, we still have Hispanic. It's not right to force our people from Latin America and immigrants here because we want to feel politically correct or want to be right. I do not agree with the real purpose behind this video, which is to attack people who want to talk about gender identity though

[@ryuuken8313]

Not please. No usen "latinx" les puedo asegurar que la gran parte de Latinoamérica se va a reir de quienes usen este término/pronombre Do not use "latinx" I can assure you that most of Latin America is going to laugh at those who use this term / pronoun

[@vampz_iyg7292]

I was agreeing with everything until the point of men and women. The main reason I think Latinx doesn't make sense is that ”Latino” is already neutral. Plus Hispanic is neutral and more popular, making it a better choice.

[@edo5407]

Stop this madness now!!!

[@guizarbayardoemmanuelisaia1718]

As a Hispanic I agree with the conclusion of this video

[@dardovelasco8185]

here in south america at least in argentina some people come to the idea of using the letter e but instead of the word latino/a the entire gendered words in the spanish diccionary

[@shaky2851]

in Brazil too

[@luainygo4932]

Idk if you are in favour or against the "E" neutral, but sadly, E and O are male, A is female. "El profesor" is male "Los profesores" is male plural and neutral plural "La profesora" female Gender in spanish is Really, really complex, because everyword has a gender, be it female or male, be it "El" or "la" if you say "Le persona" is wrong, because "persona" 's gender is female, "La persona" it does not matter if you are talking about a guy or a gal "la persona" "el humano" "El planeta" "la canción" Everything has a gender here. and changing everything to "E" doesn't solve this, because... E... is male too.

[@felipe.p.esquivel1905]

Eu n entendo porque tem gente que tenta acha solução pra problema que n existe

[@ynxxx6334]

Pprt

[@gigidoesthingss]

Porque essas pessoas não têm problemas reais em sua própria vida e precisam se intrometer na vida dos outros e criar um problema que não existe. (Desculpe pelo português, estou ajudando com o tradutor jajaj)

[@ynxxx6334]

@@gigidoesthingss it's okay lmao(your portuguese)

[@emonlevircni4617]

@@gigidoesthingss Ur Portuguese is great for someone using a translator.

[@emonlevircni4617]

É um pouco por ideologia, e um pouco pelo fato de serem um bando de gente desocupada e sem nada para fazer, que assim como disse alguém anteriormente não tem nenhum tipo de problema em suas vidas privilegiadas e ficam vindo criar problemas na vida alheia, é mais triste do que outra coisa.

[@Jadanbr]

i am brazillian, and i heard that this word existed only a few days ago, it sounded dumb, people should stop trying to solve the problems of other people (and in this case, solving a issue that don't actually exist), its just a very dumb thing, who thought the word Latino was wrong?

[@EmDoesNotExist]

can someone tell me what gender-neutral people prefer to use? I'm learning Spanish and its a topic that came up in discussion today.

[@be7256]

Latino is gender neutral

[@santiagoquintero1891]

La gente pretende que los latinos nos adecuemos a una palabra que nisiquiera se puede pronunciar adecuadamente en el español. Si buscan ser inclusivos antes de apoyar ese término deberían estudiar como funciona el idioma de quienes pretenden representar. En el español hay palabras femeninas y masculinas pero eso no quiere decir que se refiera como tal a un hombre o una mujer. Ejemplo: "Soy un latino, vengo de américa latina, de el continente americano pero a fin de cuentas de la humanidad" En ese ejemplo salté de genero masculino a femenino sucesivamente sin que sea ilógico o opresor con mi genero porque así es el español, que una palabra sea masculina o femenina no quiere decir que lo que represente tenga que serlo específicamente. "La humanidad" es una palabra en femenino y nos describe a todos, al igual que "el ser humano". En mi consideración y la de muchos de mis compatriotas latinos, el término "latinx" resulta más despectivo que inclusivo y entiendo que haya gente que lo use con buena intención pero por favor, no lo usen. Da una especie de aire de superioridad a el que lo usa incorrectamente y un sentimiento de ignorancia a quien lo usa sin saber. Muchas gracias y que viva latinoamerica. Thanks.

[@peachy9976]

I'm sorry...perverted??? What about personal gender expression, which involves no one else, is perverse or even sexual AT ALL? The fuck...

[@theantagonist9100]

I'd rather be called Taco Boy than Latinx

[@tania-ko4fs]

💀💀

[@geboaebo]

Can confirm, not a single latino actually uses that word. It is just a way for privileged people to feel like they're doing something good for the world without actually having to put any effort.

[@thiagosentello6595]

I feel forced to say only one thing: Is it any difficult for anyone to say "Latin"!?

[@bewilderment8735]

Latin american person, IS gender-neutral, but people decide to use "latinx".. I do not understand people sometimes.

[@originalname2021]

Yes it is. Latín in spanish is a language and not a term to refer to people.

[@AVGVST_1]

Latins*

[@ReaperFrost]

So, are you telling me they ACTUALLY use this stupid term in schools? Geez man, I thought it was only a stupid trend on Twitter, but as a mexican I can only feel pissed that people actually use "latinx" to refer to us.