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leonidasv on March 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Banning words won’t make the world more just

And there was no need for bringing up this unreadable "Latinx" word in the first place.

There's already a centuries-old gender-neutral word for Latino/Latina that is, surprise, "Latin". Or "Latin person" if you will.

I was born in South America, and I really reject being called a "Latinx". It sounds dehumanizing.

TurkishPoptart on March 3, 2023 [–]

I think the only sensible way to resist this is to poke fun at it. Humor did a great job at whittling away the absurdities of the Soviet Union, and it can do the same with this dystopian diversity nonsense.

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