I've asked that same (2nd) question before and tbh with you, it's mostly mixed bag. It is predominantly used by white liberals but not 100%. I think it's something time will have a better answer for, if people of Latino/Latina decent make it a thing then it's a legit thing. I just don't see it currently catching on and it has been around for a couple years or more now. The thing is too, I get it, and I get why people want to say it and it makes sense, but I'm in zero place to tell people of that descent what to say so I just say Latino/Latina. It's not perfect but I simply don't see any of my friends or well known people saying it that I follow or read. My opinion on this can change eventually so i'm not devoted to it at all either.
I do think it was bad faith though because it's distracting from the true meaning of the post and delving into semantics that isn't very relevant to the topic or respectful to it either.
It's kind of weird to me and I wonder if the people that came up with it know spanish. Cause the language itself is very gendered, and you will have to use the x in a lot of places. In english objects are not gendered, and a verb or adjective does not change based on gender. I am not against it but it has to be applied to the whole language. But that's another topic.
I've asked that same (2nd) question before and tbh with you, it's mostly mixed bag. It is predominantly used by white liberals but not 100%. I think it's something time will have a better answer for, if people of Latino/Latina decent make it a thing then it's a legit thing. I just don't see it currently catching on and it has been around for a couple years or more now. The thing is too, I get it, and I get why people want to say it and it makes sense, but I'm in zero place to tell people of that descent what to say so I just say Latino/Latina. It's not perfect but I simply don't see any of my friends or well known people saying it that I follow or read. My opinion on this can change eventually so i'm not devoted to it at all either.
I do think it was bad faith though because it's distracting from the true meaning of the post and delving into semantics that isn't very relevant to the topic or respectful to it either.
It's kind of weird to me and I wonder if the people that came up with it know spanish. Cause the language itself is very gendered, and you will have to use the x in a lot of places. In english objects are not gendered, and a verb or adjective does not change based on gender. I am not against it but it has to be applied to the whole language. But that's another topic.
i'm not a linguist but i don't believe x in spanish is used often enough for it to fit within it? seems weird, at least written
Yeah, my point exactly.