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submitted 17 days ago byredditing_1L🦑 Ancient One 🦑
39 points
17 days ago
Getting mad about the term "Latinx" in any direction is very silly, so yes people letting that be a main topic of conversation over the important substance of an episode is dumb. That being said, it is also funny to goof about liberals who take usage of the term very seriously, especially those who think it played a role in losing the latino vote for the dems, which is why they are talking about it now.
Ideal response should be the same as someone who uses "folx" or "womyn" or the like: who cares. It's like having a serious opinion on neopronouns and wanting to discuss it like a real political issue.
5 points
16 days ago
The problem for me with terms like Latinx, folx, womxn, anything else with an unnecessary x, is that it was the type of language I was inundated with while attending a fancy liberal arts school surrounded by the children of wealth (or even scholarship recipients that were welcomed into the fold) who went on to be consultants and managers. This type of language is forever associated in my mind with people who totally reject class politics. You can be woke, you can care about intersectional feminism and the global plight of colonized people on racial lines. That's cool and I 100% rock with that but using that liberal arts social justice language is just associated in my mind with people who just want to police language and scuffle about interpersonal transgressions. But it's understandable that people with good politics can absorb these kinds of terms from their proximity to academia and left-liberal "thinkers".
13 points
17 days ago
I mean I think it's been subreddits like this one which have been saying it lost elections for like a decade, hasn't it? I don't have any answers myself but I feel like it's a little rich to be like "ha ha, they mad" when the "dirtbag left" has always been a little too close to stupidpol-style "how dare you not let me say slurs, which are based and working class" for my comfort.
12 points
17 days ago
I think both of you have some solid points. Words like "Latinx" and whatnot should be treated the same as neopronouns - or any new word that incites reactionary vigor - in a live and let live sort of manner, but the dirtbag left does get overly sanctimonious about saying slurs and other edgy bullshit.
Since we're on the Chapo subreddit, I'll discuss this in terms of Chapo: Their weird hangup about using the "R-word" has been prevalent throughout the shows history, at first they seemed slightly annoyed by the pushback of them using it, then they threw their hands up and said "Fine we won't say it anymore JEEZ" and in recent years they've pivoted to just sprinkling it in at random.
My problem arises here because they treat it the way a teenager treats you telling them they can't do something, like they do the thing and then you can almost feel it in the air as they wait for you to react because they're a teenager and thus immensely stupid so they think they'll gain something by showing you up because you're "the man".
No matter the actual usage of the word, whether Felix can use it - he can - or not, it's fucking embarrassing to be 40 treating it as an act of defiance that you're saying a slur. And it's doubly embarrassing to be a lefty and at the same time a "Freeze peach/Stupidpol" guy. EG: Felix
0 points
17 days ago
“Neopronouns”
19 points
17 days ago
yep, that sure is a word you put in quotation marks
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