Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 20:27     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What I do notice in the Peoples Republic of Arlington is that the presumed nannies or babysitters who used to cluster at school bus stops after school are now replaced by the parents.


I don’t believe you and the stupid “People’s Republic of Arlington” gives you away. I’m a SAHM in North Arlington and I have seen nothing of the sort.


+1 the trolls are trolling about empty malls, unemployment numbers, a flooded real estate market. They're trying to make it a thing which makes me think it might not actually become a thing?
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 17:54     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:What I do notice in the Peoples Republic of Arlington is that the presumed nannies or babysitters who used to cluster at school bus stops after school are now replaced by the parents.


I don’t believe you and the stupid “People’s Republic of Arlington” gives you away. I’m a SAHM in North Arlington and I have seen nothing of the sort.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 17:52     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?


Oh, and you "don't" message--I don’t listen to phrases in the imperative from internet strangers so that all you said was a waste of words.


This is the most DCUM post ever, IMO. It’s self-righteous, (unintentionally) ironic and completely lacking in self-awareness

Bravo!.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 17:50     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
What I do notice in the Peoples Republic of Arlington is that the presumed nannies or babysitters who used to cluster at school bus stops after school are now replaced by the parents.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 17:41     Subject: Re:Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:Idiot, it is due to Fed firings and bad economy.


It's also not happening in the DMV. Maybe in your part of Moscow.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:56     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
No
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:10     Subject: Re:Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Idiot, it is due to Fed firings and bad economy.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 16:09     Subject: Re:Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Just a moment here.

They can’t seriously be planning to just just deport people right out of the U.S. can they?
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 12:57     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dead malls has been a thing for years in the DMV. Tysons is the only consistently crowded mall.


I've seen dead malls in the rust belt. Neither Montgomery Mall nor Wheaton Mall are dead malls.


Sometimes I can barely get a parking space at Wheaton.


+1 It's not as bad as the Gaithersburg Costco but that's not saying much
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 12:46     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dead malls has been a thing for years in the DMV. Tysons is the only consistently crowded mall.


I've seen dead malls in the rust belt. Neither Montgomery Mall nor Wheaton Mall are dead malls.


Sometimes I can barely get a parking space at Wheaton.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 12:32     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:Dead malls has been a thing for years in the DMV. Tysons is the only consistently crowded mall.


I've seen dead malls in the rust belt. Neither Montgomery Mall nor Wheaton Mall are dead malls.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 12:27     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Our local shopping mall is full of Hispanic people, because they are the only ones who have stable jobs right now in the DC metro.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 11:48     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Three things are true:
1. Most Latinos don't use the word Latinx and many have never heard of it
2. Most Latinos identify primarily by their specific country of origin/heritage and the terms Hispanic and Latino are terms used primarily in the United States
3. The war over "Latinx" is being fought mostly among non-Hispanic Whites
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 11:45     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.


I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !


Who are you to tell them how to define themselves? NO



It has nothing to do with them defining themselves. It’s simply asking EVERYONE to be more conclusive and stop being transphobic.



+1

Refusing to use the correct term, LatinX, is being transphobic, either consciously or unconsciously.


Using the term developed by white liberal women that the Latino community overwhelmingly rejects? You trying to force your terminology to control the narrative is the issue.


Actually was Latinx radical feminists

The word "Latinx" originated in the mid-2000s "in activist circles primarily in the U.S. as an expansion of earlier gender-inclusive variations such as Latino/a (with the slash) and Latin@ (with the “at” sign)," says Joseph M. Pierce, an assistant professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. "The 'x' does not imply a specific gender—as would the 'o' (masculine) or the 'a' (feminine) for nouns in Spanish—and is meant to disrupt the grammatical binary that is inherent in this romance language."

However, the history of using "x" is lengthier, says David Bowles, a writer, translator, and professor at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas, who is currently working on a book 0n the word Latinx. "Radical feminists in the '90s—and perhaps as early as the '70s—would literally "x" out the "o" at the end of words that were meant to exclude women and non-binary folk all together."

The word "Latinx" is ultimately a "non-gendered, non-binary, inclusive way of pushing back against the default masculine in Spanish," adds Bowles.


https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a28056593/latinx-meaning/
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 11:16     Subject: Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.


I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !


Who are you to tell them how to define themselves? NO



It has nothing to do with them defining themselves. It’s simply asking EVERYONE to be more conclusive and stop being transphobic.



+1

Refusing to use the correct term, LatinX, is being transphobic, either consciously or unconsciously.


Using the term developed by white liberal women that the Latino community overwhelmingly rejects? You trying to force your terminology to control the narrative is the issue.