Democratic (Party) Direction

"Latin" is an awful descriptor anyway. My boss wonders if he can call himself Latin because his mom's Italian.

I say "latin-ecks" with "Latin" pronounced as the language, but when I think about it I wonder whether I should be saying "La-TEEN-ecks." I'm actually not sure I've ever heard someone speak this word, including myself.

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

If you're going with a Spanish pronunciation shouldn't you go all the way and say "La-TEEN-eh-kees?"

"Latin" is an awful descriptor anyway. My boss wonders if he can call himself Latin because his mom's Italian.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 2, 2018 5:40 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Latin-americans then?

my 2 rules for avoiding unnecessary stress:
- let people call themselves what they want to
- don't give ppl a hard time when they say things in good faith

I kind of wonder if "Latinx" is ever going to full happen? Is it in widespread use among the youngfolks?

one of my non-binary students refers to themselves as xicanx

guilty lol warning:

xXxicanxXx

end guilty lol

my 2 rules for avoiding unnecessary stress:
- let people call themselves what they want to
- don't give ppl a hard time when they say things in good faith

― k3vin k., Monday, 2 July 2018 22:28 (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u monster

to my knowledge, they were never involved in the hxc punk scene
xp

i'm totally down with getting away from gendered pronouns but man it's hard when you're talking about a language in which literally every noun has a gender, from book to table to moon to awkwardness. i realize those things don't self-identify so it's fine but still, it feels so much more uphill in romance languages

Well in french you can say 'la personne non-binaire', personne is still neutral rhetorically, if not grammatically. Don't know how it works for other romance language.

spanish could replace all -a's and -o's with -e's and use le and les articles in lieu of el/los and la/las

^ would definitely make Spanish easier on English speakers!

vhs yeah i mean at the granular level of definite articles it's gendered all the way

my system accounts for all of this. when ppl say things you think are different you just respond "ok sure"

i can get to that

like I honestly can't fathom why it would be important to say latinx vs latina vs whatever, but clearly it is important for some people. live and let live imo!

I'm white btw

bc latin@ doesn't include non-binary

sure

there are all sorts of things that are super important to people who are "on my side" and I just feel like there are better uses of my time than thinking about whether its good or bad, its all good imo

Seems like a bad Democratic Party direction: https://www.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/the-rhode-island-democratic-party-may-have-endorsed-a-trump-supporter.html

Afaict Rhode Islanders would endorse a 55 gallon barrel of toxic waste if they grew up on the same block as it.

Form is just...illusory, maaaan. Get my meaning? Nope, you made that up.

my system accounts for all of this. when ppl say things you think are different you just respond "ok sure"

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:15 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can get to that

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:18 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like I honestly can't fathom why it would be important to say latinx vs latina vs whatever, but clearly it is important for some people. live and let live imo!

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:26 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm white btw

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:27 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bc latin@ doesn't include non-binary

― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:28 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 July 2018 00:30 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was good

Woulda been a bit better if k3v had responded "ok sure" in the last one.

i default to the boy form cuz hey we still run things

THIS WAS A SATIRICAL POST; THAT'S MY STORY

I assume all your posts are satirical

i don’t speak Spanish but i can’t imagine doing genre neutre in french

i do hear people say latinx aloud in, say, undocumented spaces--it seems like it's primarily a chicano-style deliberately political identity

my 2 rules for avoiding unnecessary stress:
- let people call themselves what they want to
- don't give ppl a hard time when they say things in good faith

― k3vin k., Monday, July 2, 2018 6:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. latinx annoyed me for a while especially since it seemed like it was mostly used by gringos but whatever. if i use any variation of the term when self-describing i tend to use "latino", sometimes i use "hispanic," both are kind of lousy

I just say "mi gente."

i'm totally down with getting away from gendered pronouns but man it's hard when you're talking about a language in which literally every noun has a gender, from book to table to moon to awkwardness. i realize those things don't self-identify so it's fine but still, it feels so much more uphill in romance languages

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, July 2, 2018 7:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea. there is also a conflation of gender as concept in language/grammar and gender as a social phenomenon dictating roles/norms that is sloppy imo. that a chair in spanish "la silla" is "gendered feminine" has fuck all to do with gender and people

It's even odder when you use the third person plural to avoid gender entirely, which to English ears sounds even more plural ("ellos")

actually, even that pronoun is gendered (ellos, ellas).

the french word for "dick" is feminine, which i've always thought was kind of cute

(well ONE of the french words for dick, i should say)

I'm glad to see that so many democrats are finally waking up to the idea of "playing dirty." Hopefully the next steps are (1) to realize that you have to actually hold power to wield it in a "dirty" way, and (2) Republicans don't go around openly saying that they are playing dirty. If you really want to play dirty you pretend you are playing clean.

dunno what any of that means tbh

Can we get back on topic here folks

Maybe this thread needs Fred back

i didn't mean to distract so badly (but i never want to say "latinks" and now i know i neednt).

"playing dirty" is great so long as it isn't the new code word for the same old failing "say bad things about Trump" strategy but rather being unafraid to embrace popular leftist policies

like it's one thing to "play dirty" by posting twice as many anti-Trump stories on Twitter, it's another to actually go for Medicare For All or a minimum wage.

I say "LaTEEN-ecks" and I am a gringo btw. As I understand it, "Hispanic" is out of favor because it prioritizes the Spanish colonizer part of the identity, and people of the Spanish-speaking Americas want & deserve an identity that doesn't depend on that. So Latino got to be the default except yeah, patriarchal, and "Latin@" is okay in print I guess but not really speech-able? If any actual Latinx ppl want to roll their eyes @ me that's okay sure.

why doesn't "latin_" equally emphasize the colonizer?

I mean less specific I guess, but it's still european-oriented

brb gonna listne to Cardi B + Balvin's "I Like It"

I'll call people whatever they want to be called, what do I care.

I will also call people whatever they want, but has "Latinx" become mainstreamed among Latinx people? Is that what most want to be called?