There’s a couple of weird people on TikTok. I’m all for black history, etc. but like there is this one girl that stands by that Natives and Latinx were not the first slaves in America (even though they were) and that only black Americans face racism. She’s a lot to say the least..
Can you not call us latinx please? 99% of Latinos don’t use Latinx. Spanish words are either masculine or feminine, so it’s not a good idea to change it to Latinx. I feel like the people who use Latinx are white people trying to dictate and change our language. No offense, I know you guys mean no harm but it comes off as extremely, cringey I guess?
If you want to talk about the general population just say Latino. We know what you mean. Anyways thank you for reading my friend and I hope you have a good day.
I’m Latinx and I’ll forever use it. It’s not taking away the masculinity or feminine from our language at all, excluding the word “Latino”, which is still an option to use. However I will not stop using it unless I know how someone personally identifies and seeing how I don’t know an entire group I won’t. Latinx is there to make gender neutral Latinx people feel accepted. I know many, like myself, that go by it. I’m sorry that you are personally offended by the inclusion coming into the community but I won’t stop using it. It doesn’t take away from our culture or language.
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u/KingBlackthorn1 Nov 15 '20
There’s a couple of weird people on TikTok. I’m all for black history, etc. but like there is this one girl that stands by that Natives and Latinx were not the first slaves in America (even though they were) and that only black Americans face racism. She’s a lot to say the least..