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Are latin@/latinx actually favored by the communities they intend to protect? (hexbear.net)

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Not to humblebrag but I’m not online enough to know the details of the likely struggle sessions that have already occurred relating to this (Hexbear or elsewhere)

I’m reading Racial Formation in the United States, and it makes frequent use of latin@. But to me it just seems really awkward/forced.

Just use latine? Or, if one insists on using a combo letter, maybe at least something like the Swedish å? Or instead of trying to change the language, just divorce any correlation between human gender and word gender by selecting either latino or latina to refer to all people.

I only have a basic American level ability to speak Spanish so if there are Spanish speakers here with better insight, lemme hear the roasts

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Idk about online struggle sessions but my irl family sometimes says Hispano, sometimes says Latino, but normally uses a more specific word. Like the country/region/state a person is from or their ethnicity. Ex: Portorriqueño, Venezolano, Sudamericano, Caribe, Oaxaqueño, Náhuatl, güero

And they use standard Spanish gender rules for those words (do neutral versions even exist? shout out to the güerxs out there)

Latino/a/e/x/@ is a strange term because to a certain extent, it's used to group millions into 1 category for the people who can't tell us apart. I'm pretty sure that in my area, corporations use it more than the people it's meant to represent.