'LatinX' backfires on the Democrats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

Lmao. Clearly you didn't read the rest of the data in the link. Hispanic voters are less likely to support any candidate who uses the term 'LatinX'. That rings true for both US and foreign born Hispanics as well as across all age groups, and even hold true for both Democrat and Republican voting Hispanics.

Next time, try some reading comprehension before posting something you think you have a handle on. It's funny when posters self own themselves though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

Do you speak Spanish? Or do you just assign yourself the authority as a white English speaker to tell Spanish speakers how you feel they should speak their native tongue?

Because in Spanish, the term for describing that aggregation of men and women automatically defers to the masculine noun: Latinos. There is no shorthand.

Latinx is a phony word made up by phony white people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one I know uses this term. It is yet again a right wing pushed tripe that people buy into.

Except it’s not right wing people using the term. So, how’s that work?

I actually work for a center right think tank and some of the young people use the term. Not everyone, but they use it.

Then you need to go into your GM’s office tomorrow and insist those employees be fired. Because your “center-right think tank” won’t be center-right much longer if allows itself to infiltrated with people who push narratives like that. And then when your center right think tank moves over to center left, your funding will also move. Somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

Technically it’s only 11 extra characters, not 13. Because it’s not “Latinos and Latinas” - but “Latinos y Latinas”


See? This is the sh!t that happens when English speakers try to tell Spanish speakers how to speak Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My first generation Latinx boss uses the term Latinx to talk about diverse groups of people and so we all use it in our division. She identifies ethnically as Colombian.

😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

Technically it’s only 11 extra characters, not 13. Because it’s not “Latinos and Latinas” - but “Latinos y Latinas”


See? This is the sh!t that happens when English speakers try to tell Spanish speakers how to speak Spanish.

No, a PP is right, you wouldnt type out the full Latinos y Latinas, you would just write Latinos. Same thing for padres/papás, adultos and niños.
-DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

This is a dumb take. Read again:
Their ethnic background. Individually.
OF COURSE they don't refer to themselves as 'Latinx' - if male, 'Latino' or if female, 'Latina'
"Latinx" is just shorthand for "Latinos and Latinas' in aggregate. But do go on typing 13 extra characters every time if you insist.

Technically it’s only 11 extra characters, not 13. Because it’s not “Latinos and Latinas” - but “Latinos y Latinas”


See? This is the sh!t that happens when English speakers try to tell Spanish speakers how to speak Spanish.

No, a PP is right, you wouldnt type out the full Latinos y Latinas, you would just write Latinos. Same thing for padres/papás, adultos and niños.
-DP

If indeed the -x ending is an aggregate mixed gender suffix, I would expect to see ninx or adultx. Why isn't that so? All these synthetic languages holding back "progress."

[Anonymous]

Funniest thing I heard was in the Netflix show “On My Block”, one of the girls pronounced it “La-tinks”. Still makes me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a college presentation and tour the other day with my senior and the world language chair used the term "LatinX." Immediately, you could see the parents (and students) shaking their heads and rolling their eyes. Funny how people who use that term are so oblivious to how dopey they look.

I could see the parents, but I don't believe you when you talk about the students. It's common enough among young people that students would not bat an eye.

Sure maybe in the pottery department at Emily Dickinson College, Latinx would be used, but not in the.math department at Carnegie Mellon

[Anonymous]

All I know is that one of the window washers I use frequently is leaving tomorrow for a three month visit to his family in a little village on the border between Salvador and Honduras. He hasn’t seen them in nearly three years because of the fear he could not get back into the US and Covid. And I am sponsoring a DACA teen at NOVA again this year

In the Spanish community, this is what matters to me. The rest is silly noise.

[Anonymous]

Bored, navel-gazing, mostly white UMC boutique pseudo-progressives have to be the most annoying and tedious folks in the world. When will they get around to fixing other languages? Any Chinese characters have problematic derivations? Can you fix that for them? After of course you fix the Spanish language for its speakers.

[Anonymous]

This is like Spanish speakers demanding English speakers not use the term 'man' or 'mankind' to describe the general body of all homosapiens because it might offend someone's gender identity, and because we use a male associated descriptor to describe humans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one I know uses this term. It is yet again a right wing pushed tripe that people buy into.

I literally heard it on an NBC News report the other day. It sounded weird.

And here it is in the Boston Globe. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/22/opinion/how-latinx-communities-are-benefiting-bidens-economic-agenda/%3foutputType=amp

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/style/new-latinx-literature.html

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/entertainment/gallery/hollywood-latinxcellence/index.html

CNBC: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/11/17/harvards-student-newspaper-elects-its-first-latinx-president.html

SFGate: https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sf-City-s-Latinx-Population-Continues-To-See-15792781.php

Are these all products of the imagination of the right?

OK, so lets change the thread title to "Latinx backfires on the media"

No clue what any of those links have to do with the Democratic Party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, you wonder why the Trump, of all people, made huge headways with Latino voters?

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000

Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe their ethnic background.


Seriously, the Democrats spend so much time flailing around about whatever GOP does that Democrats fail to realize that they are overwhelmingly their own worst enemies the vast majority of the time. Thank god we have white progressives telling Hispanic voters that LatinX is the new appropriate term to use. The Democrats are making very dangerous assumptions that the growing Hispanic vote will be theirs. Judging by the LatinX fiasco, the Democrats are doing a good job drumming up votes for the GOP.

Thanks for the solution that didn't have a problem. I'm a Dem and I don't know anyone who uses the term in my age group. I hear some younger folks say it, but is not that common to hear. What's the big deal. I don't know ANY Latinos who use the term Hispanic unless they live in TX. The use of LatinX had no bearing on Trump.

Give me a break.

Wait, has the term "Hispanic" really fallen out of use?