Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language

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Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language

It's just one instance of "political correctness" gone mad.....

People of Hispanic origin have a tendency towards social conservatism.

In their frantic efforts to be woke, many so-called progressives fail to fully understand what it really means to be anything other than wealthy, white, or male.

Sad.

Yes. The term "Latinx" is so ret*d it would probably drive even a woke progressive Latina, like AOC, into the arms of Donald Trump!

First off "Latino" is kind of passe' anyway. Most Americans, both Anglo and Latino, call "Latinos" "Hispanics" nowadays. And "Hispanic" is an American English Anglo word without any gender ending anyway. Problem solved. So why revive "Latino" if you're only going to revive it in order to butcher it with an X on the end?

And there are other problems.

Not only are most American Hispanics culturally conservative, and lacking in the current Woke obsession with "gender neutral language", but even the rare hyperwoke Hispanic who cares about things like "gender neutral pronouns" in English would balk at making a Latino word like "Latino" gender neutral because gender in Spanish is not the same as gender in English because the two languages work differently.

English is the rare European language that does NOT divide the whole universe (including inanimate objects) into masculine and feminine. We gave that nonsense up a thousand years ago. Pronouns for humans are the rare few words that remain as gender related in English.

In contrast Spanish retains this inane division of the universe into sexual gender.



In Spanish tables are feminine (mesa), roads are masculine (camino), houses are feminine (casa), and cars (carro) are masculine. All of those things are inanimate, and have no obvious sexual gender identity. But in Spanish those words have gender, and thus you have to pay attention to the proper gender endings. Use the right "the" word for the right gender (el for masculine, and la for feminine). And so on.





So...a guy who is Hispanic could ID himself as "Latino", a lady "Latina". And either, when speaking of Hispanics in general (without specifying gender of individuals) might default to the masculine and speak of "Latino culture" or of "Latinos" as a group. If a Latino person wanted to be more woke than thou that person could say "Latinx". But then they would have to do that for EVERY word in the Spanish language.

Instead of the normal way of saying "Is Susan in the house? Yes. In the Kitchen." Which would be "Esta Susanna en casa? Si. En la Cocina." It would be "Esta Susannx en el/la Casx. Si. En el/la cocinx". It would just end all conversation, and demolish the whole Spanish language!