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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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

[i]Only 2% of Hispanic voters chose the term 'LatinX' to describe [b]their[/b] ethnic background. [/i]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Do you [i]speak[/i] 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 [i]Spanish[/i], the term for describing that aggregation of men and women automatically defers to the masculine noun: Latin[b]os[/b]. There is no shorthand.

Latinx is a phony word made up by phony white people. [/quote]

+100[/quote]

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