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I want to second the Latinx thing. Every latino I know, even the non-binary ones, find that particular change to the language offensive and uneducated. I'm sure there are some native spanish speakers who support it, but they seem to make up the minority. It just doesn't make linguistic sense.


It's not a language issue it's an ideological issue that exposes in clear terms that Social Justice Populism is more an antagonizing than it is about 'Justice'.

Latinos don't want this specific social change, but the 'vanguard' of Social Justice demands the change and utilizes it as an effort to both give evidence of the 'evil racist world in which we live' - and to 'one up' and take the the supposed moral high ground.

Put another way - there will never, ever be an end to the claims of racial injustice, because the opportunity for bad faith populism provides an opportunity for some groups to gain leverage and power.

Social Media has amplified this dramatically so in a world that is actually getting much more fair on racial terms, we scream and argue more about to the point of raising pedantic elements into total hyperbole.

In 'polite Canada' they used to have language wars. The 'STOP' on the stop sign is a political issue, because it's technically English. So they argue about having 'Stop / Arret' - i.e. 'bilingual' stop signs - on federal property so that the French speaking person in Alberta, who may not know what 'Stop' means, will get the right idea.

These ridiculous discussions drown out any meaningful social reform, because the rational, pedantic progressives are actively culled by the radicals. In much the same way Stalin's control over the Germany Communist Party in Weimar Republic led him to attack the SPD (Social Democrats) as 'the primary enemy' over the far right.

This entire post could be restated in terms of populist right-wingism as well, particularly in regards to making something out of nothing and attacking their more traditional peers , with small differences.




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