Chicago
Does this group have any POC administrators?
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6147 is picking a really weird hill to die on here. Yes, the names groups use for themselves are complicated, and not everyone from the same group agrees on the same name. And in this context, it's pretty clear what PoC refers to, and its usage is appropriate.
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There are no administrators, poc or otherwise. Get out of the entitled mindset that you can appeal to some authority figures to claim that they aren't being fair in some way.
There is no authority figure here, and nobody feels obligated to do anything for you. It's the real world. It's a f**king nightmare. Grow up. Welcome to the jungle.
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just checked and a106 is right.
6147 claim that an academic article contradicts my post could not be more wrong: in every way that article entirely confirms my post about what the undergrad thesis is getting completely wrong.
TBF, the actual argument of that article isn't something I care about (the politics of using "Latinx" as it relates to the historical actions of Nahuatl native speakers), but even that point was kinda covered in my post when writing "I don't really care about the usage of "Latinx" or not."
Sorry for gloating. I just don't get to be right a lot.
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B388, the x in Latinx as usually pronounced in American English is not pronounced the same as "x" in transliterated indigenous mesoamerican languages. The idea that the basis for appropriateness or not of "Latinx" rests on transliterations of indigenous languages into the Latin alphabet that make different use the letter "x" seems pretty colonialist. Those languages did not use an "x" in any written symbolism before white Spaniards arrived, and usual pronunciation does not even correlate to the x in "Latinx."
http://remezcla.com/culture/right-way-to-pronounce-latinx/
Nearly every publicly-accessible source acknowledges that usage of "Latinx" is extremely controversial and considered racist by many in affected communities. 95% of people who insist on using "Latinx" are racist liberal white women with advanced academic degrees.
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2998 --- your argument amounts to the claim that incorporating some indigenous grammars (like no gender pronouns) or sounds into the Latin alphabet is colonialist. It's a truly bizarre hardline claim that no part of me believes you truly care about. Then they go on to start making up percentages.
This is all great for you, but has nothing to do with anything I've said. I don't care if people should or shouldn't use it, or who we imagine does and doesn't use it.
My point was that with the exception of some undergrad and some dullard in this thread who is citing that undergrad because they've chosen to die on a silly hill, there's basic consensus on where the "x" in "Latinx" comes from and what people are intending to do with it (regardless of if that's good or bad or smart or dumb, which again iduncare).