Trump Presidency Tweets 3 - The Old Man and the Seethe

Mmm, the link doesn't work: probably geo-blocked in my area?

 

I'll try again:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/latinx-term-usage-hispanics-trnd/index.html

 

Now it works: thanks!

Edit: as an Italian (thus speaking a language that, although not as close to Spanish as many claim, has anyway a lot in common with Spanish), I can totally subscirbe this part of the article, that basically express the same doubts I had indicated in my post above:

"The term replaces the "o" in "Latino" or the "a" in "Latina" with an "x" to make it gender-neutral. But in doing so, its critics say, English speakers are imposing a term on the Hispanic and Latino population that doesn't make sense for them.
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"Perhaps the most ironic failure of the term is that it actually excludes more groups than it includes," wrote Guerra and Orbea. "By replacing o's and a's with x's, the word "Latinx" is rendered laughably incomprehensible to any Spanish speaker without some fluency in English".

 

My college has a lot of students who come from Spanish-speaking households, and these students never use "Latinx.". I'm glad I noticed that early on, because HR and Admin is really big on it, even though it generally results in eyerolls from students supposedly described therein.

 

I find "Latinix" used at work among those from Spanish-speaking backgrounds and not but my workplace slants heavily towards activists.

 

soooo ..... people who reach for their pitchforks at the merest hint of cultural appropriation think it's OK for them to bastardize a word from another culture.

 

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Thank you Joe Biden for reminding us what a president sounds like.

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 12, 2020

 

Donaled, your racism is showing.
-Cory https://t.co/jrHIoqJ8A2

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 12, 2020

 

The term came from Latino/Latina academics.

I think everyone should just start using the "vos" and end the words with "i" and "u". That'll help.

 

Lots of strong reactive comments to them.

 

Kamala Harris: "He inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden, then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it into the ground."

This is how it’s done.

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 12, 2020

 

John Lewis Voting Rights Act just promised by Kamala Harris. Amen.

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 12, 2020

 

We can’t let Trump kill the USPS. #TrumpKillsUSPS

📺 @ReallyAmerican1 pic.twitter.com/lyht1G5hnp

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 12, 2020

 

Aimed at Moscow Mich. I don’t quite get the message but it’s humorous. I couldn’t post one without the other. Oh well.

https://t.co/HKRVBHaYsA

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Quite an afternoon for America. We were treated to a lovely demonstration of intelligence, compassion and integrity. Then we saw some idiot take a shit on the stage at the White House as 160,000 Americans have died. Decision 2020 sure is a headscratcher.

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 12, 2020

 

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Oof

A preview. pic.twitter.com/EWoIxhjHZj

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 13, 2020

 

Plantation owners are unhappy

Last time you went to a football game, you walked out as a PR stunt.

Fuck off, you obsequious prick. https://t.co/mRYvEi4HsQ

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 11, 2020

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Stop fretting...USPS is putting their top guys on this.

 

I don't trust Neuman but Cliff turned in his own girlfriend for stealing mail.

 

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BREAKING: Donald Trump to soon announce which of Kamala’s ethnicities he plans to offend in upcoming nickname

— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) August 11, 2020