• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    So this is obviously a shitpost but just to clarify Latinx doesn't refer to Spanish people, right? Like Spaniards can't claim they're Latinx because they're not from Latin America, right?!

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Because they aren't, unless their family are latinamericans.

        • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          yeah that's kinda what I meant. Also, if the "racism" a family friend told me about a decade ago, is anything to go by, Spaniards don't think kindly of Latino Americans.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Technically it does, in the same way that people from North Africa and the middle East are also "white" according to the US government.

      • Vampire [any]
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        3 years ago

        people from North Africa and the middle East are also “white” according to the US government.

        TIL

    • steve5487 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      it's a grey area as someone racist against latinx people isn't going to bother differentiating the Spanish from them. Similar to how people aren't going to be just racist to Chinese people and will just say they are while being racist to asians in general

      • foldingchable [any]
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        3 years ago

        people aren’t going to be just racist to Chinese people and will just say they are while being racist to asians in general

        I see someone hasn't seen how weird fascist weaboos can get

    • Garbagestunts [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Latin Americans are Spaniards mixed with indigenous peoples. Meet real Spaniards and they're barely alike.

      Except for that horrible lisp when speaking Spanish. Good lord, my ears.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They are mixing up "latin" (as in latinamerican) with "hispanic".

      I guess it's correct to say spanish speaking latinamericans are hispanic. But people born in Spain aren't latin, unless of course that's their family culture.