Gotta be a troll.
I’m here to say something stupid as well. Happy dumbassing everyone!
I haven’t seen a mouthbreathing comment section like this since I left reddit. This is incredible.
So far it isn’t as bad as I feared. It’s very early days though! I’m really keen to create a community where we can discuss any topic including contentious ones respectfully, rather than just avoiding posting anything that could bring out the trolls. I’m hoping the one-warning-then-you’re-banned rule will be sufficient to keep the worst at bay. Please report comments that break the rules if you see them to help keep this community an enjoyable place to be!
Good luck.
Oh I am going to need it. Thanks!
The colonizer is strong in this one.
Hush now, she just loves really hard.
I just know she wrote this while sipping a Starbucks and wearing big sunglasses while indoors.
Lol latinos, where the original colonizers g. Anglo-Saxon’s only made it amore profitable venture.
Btw Latinos made it profitable but that was when we still where speaking Latin
People don’t understand that if you make shit up you just get laughed at
That depends on what you make up. If you make up the right thing you’ll get celebrated by other people who like to make things up.
Leave it to a white person to think they just get to use words however they want regardless of their actual definitions. SMH
OP isn’t ignorant because they’re white, they’re ignorant because of the impact of their social economic class on their education, life experience, and world view.
Your comment opening with:
“Leave it to a white person to…” Is blatant racism.
Thats a good explanation. I’m saving that for future use. It seems easier to empathise with these people when you understand that they’re a product of their environment and as much victims of the system as anybody else.
Yeah but it’s the cool kind of racism that’s allowed so it’s okay!
If I can be racist against my very own (according to the 23 and me dealy i got for Christmas 4 years ago) kind, than you know what? Fine I’ll take that. White people, especially Americans who feel the need to preamble that with some other European nation like it was an additional qualifying ethnicity, suck. I dislike them. It’s like, ooh look at me I’m extra white. Fuck that. They are attention seeking children and a net negative for society.
The abscence of formal centralized definitions is kinda the bread and butter of the english language. All dictionaries are trying to describe how people use words, not what they mean.
It’s not amorphous enough fit it to ever be ok for a white+ American girl to just say she’s Latin because she feels like that’s just a state of mind. Language does not work like that.
“Leave it to [insert race]” is not exactly taking the high road here.
I’m pretty sure that as a white person I’m aloud to call out a type of behavior that has become all to common in white people.
You’re allowed to do a lot of things. What I’m really getting at is what kind of person it makes you.
I’m the kind of person who is sick of being lumped in with people who look like me. White people are not my people just because we have similar pigmentation but I’m certainly not going around claiming to be some other ethnicity because i think it’s a state of mind. I might have a chip on my shoulder. I was raised by a very active civil rights activist and this shit makes me sick.
First,
Leave it to a white person to think they just get to use words however they want regardless of their actual definitions. SMH
But then,
I’m the kind of person who is sick of being lumped in with people who look like me.
You’re very confused.
I believe you believe that
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You know latinx was coined by actually queer/NB latinx people, right? It’s not just a white people thing.
Right, but it is not and has not been used to describe queer white people. The OOP describes herself as Irish American who identified as Latinx because she “loves hard”, and that’s not how anything works.
What in the white privilege is this horseshit?
irish american
3/78ths irish. The fries you get at McDonalds are more irish than them
Thank you for not calling us LatinX, I’ve yet to meet a Latino who doesn’t hate that.
I’ve never understood LatinX. Is it supposed to be a gender neural Latino/Latina? I’m only a Spanish beginner but I’m fairly sure Latino can be masculine and gender neutral.
Am I the only one who reads LatinX as rhyming with larynx?
I read it as a Latino fetish porn site.
“LatinX” was indeed the first attempt at a gender neutral description. “Latino” is still considered by many native speakers to be “neutral”, but the most feasible solution I’ve seen popping up is the “latine” (as in “estudiante”, “vigilante”, etc). Since it uses an explicitly non-gendered suffix, it is more correctly inclusive than the “latino”. It will take a while though, und until it is really widely adopted.
“Latino” is still considered by many native speakers to be “neutral”
So like, is there any sizeable Latin community actually calling for a gender neutral term or is this just a middle-class white people thing? Because as a white person I’ve never seen anyone push for this other than white people and it just seems like a white savior/ daddy knows best thing. But my experience is just my experience
I am trans and Latina and it is totally a thing. We have queer people too, we come in all the normal colors and a few weird ones too.
My experience is also your experience.
It was first seen in online queer activist circles around 2004. You can read a little about it here. Latino is traditionally masc/neutral but English style guides also said the same about “he” when referring to someone of unknown or unspecified gender for a long time, which has largely fallen out of use for singular “they” now.
Personally, I don’t use Latinx in writing to refer to all Latinos/Latinas as polling has shown only 2-3% of people readily identify with it. But I do think you absolutely should use it if that’s how someone personally identifies.
I’m not Latino, but I feel like that would annoy me. Latin@ as well. The language is gendered, trying to eliminate that is absurd.
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Bad faith arguments, bigotry and trolling are not acceptable in this community. Please read the rules in the sidebar before participating further. This is your warning.
Not to mention I think making the One Joke should be a bannable offense, personally
I feel triggered, not as a trans person, but as someone who enjoys humor
I’m trying to be fair mod and not too authoritarian while being committed to making this a welcoming and an enjoyable community for everyone. It’s a hard balancing act tbh, but I think the one-warning-then-you’re-banned rule is a reasonable middle ground. Tonight/tomorrow I’ll make a sticky post asking for additional mods and asking for feedback on the rules and how this community should be run so everyone can have a say. Please comment on that post, I am willing to listen to everyone and change the rules of it’s what the majority want.
"This is my warning. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My warning is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. …"
Somehow I don’t doubt you’ve gotten a lot of warnings.
"This is the single joke I know . There are many like it, but my brain can only store this one.
My one joke is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. …"
Zing!
Obviously, yes. Especially when you are a member of a dominant ethnic group, cosplaying at being “other” when you will never be involuntarily othered, and explaining your (entirely illegitimate) choice via racial stereotyping.
It is absolutely not the same as identifying as gay or trans or whatever other besieged minorities you are slyly pouring scorn on. People don’t choose to get fucked over for who they are regardless of what they do. They are who they are and they’re surrounded by desperately insecure fuckwits who can only make themselves feel better by making the lives of others worse.
Kudos to you for even replying, let alone in such a calm way! 🙌🏼
I refuse to let people’s insecurities prevent me from being myself. All who oppose me shall know the apocalyptic hellstorm of my wrath. Those who would disparage me are the evil ones, and will always be. My enemy must be ripped from this world. I am what I know to be, and any who would doubt this doubt a true individual.
You know your One Joke doesn’t get any more original if you swap out the attack helicopter, right?
One Joke.
Your account is fucking wierd. Like I want to say you’re a troll, but it seems like you’re just a narcissistic arsehole.
You were so close with your assumption but since I’m 'Murican(pew pew), I’d be classified as an Imperial Asshole.
The meme is correct. OP is wrong. It can be genetics, becaus your parents were from there but it’s also a cultural thing, if you feel like it, you may be it. There’s noone stopping you from it.
OMB defines “Hispanic or Latino” as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin (also known as ethnicity).
If your family isn’t Latino and you don’t have live in a Spanish culture, you’re not Latino. You’re certainly not Latino because you “love hard”.
Hispanic is if you come from a country of spanish descent. Latino is if you come from a Latin American country. People from Brazil are latinos but not hispanic.
Brazil is pretty much the only exception though, in most cases both apply and as far as the census, etc it’s not worth breaking Brazil out into its own category.
The Dominican Republic speaks Spanish but is not part of latin America. If you count them as part of latin America then so is Haiti but they don’t speak Spanish. Cultures and languages are complicated.
Ok? What’s your point?
Idk just trying to breakdown that definition that was provided because it’s lumping two cultures into one group kind of how some Americans will see all brown people as just mexicans. Why did you respond to me when I responded to some one else?
Half of my family is spanish speaking. My mom grew up bilingual, speaking Spanish at home with my grandma. I lived in Spanish-speaking countries in my twenties for a while and learned to speak spanish myself.
…I still never ever call myself Latino because I grew up in whitesville as a white kid. It never even occurred to me until I was older that I might technically be considered Latino. It just never really came up. The most I ever say is literally what I said in the first sentence. I really feel like deciding later in life to identify as Latino would be some weird kind of appropriation. I don’t look Latino, I didn’t experience anything like a Latino outside of visiting my family and being surrounded by Latinos.
I’ve come across people in very similar situations to me, who do identify as Latin and they explained to me that they decided later in life to start saying it. It just feels…wrong to me. Can you find out after living a super white existence that you may “get to” qualify as a minority group (in the context of living in the US, that is.) while having none of the lived experience of being of that i identity group?
I say no.
I have a similar experience to you. I’m British with an Irish father and a half-Iranian mother. I’m still British because I was born and live in the UK. My cousins would piss themselves laughing if I suddenly declared I was Irish!
Yep. My father was British. I was born in the U.S. I don’t call myself British or English. That’s stupid. I could even get citizenship if I wanted, but if I did, the closest I would come to calling myself British would be ‘British subject.’ I’m American. Unless I do a fake accent, that’s quite clear.
“British subject” sounds very American! “Having British citizenship” sounds more, well, British. And I think you automatically have British citizenship because your dad was English. But don’t hold me to it.
Connecting with your heritage is a legitimate thing, as long as you actually do it and don’t just say it. And as long as you don’t get ridiculous about it.
I’m in a smilar boat as you, my mom is a Mexican citizen but I grew up white af. I could start exploring my Mexican heritage more but I would always have to keep in mind that I grew up white and not pretend otherwise.
I was reading it wrong … You are not latina because you love hard.
Thanks for your definition. Hispanic is someone with spanish culture. That was my point.
Hey, at least you were confidently incorrect 😉
😂
I followed the link you used:
These standards generally reflect a social definition of race and ethnicity recognized in this country, and they do not conform to any biological, anthropological, or genetic criteria. . . . Persons who report themselves as Hispanic can be of any race and are identified as such in our data tables.
I thought the OP was ridiculous but apparently, if they genuinely identify with the culture then she might technically be correct.
I think that’s more of a “this is clearly stupid but there’s so few people wanting to be this stupid, it’s not worth the resources to fight it”.
I think it’s saying that as the census is self reported, she can identify herself as Latino even if it doesn’t reflect societal definitions of race and ethnicity. Not that she’d be correct to do so.
Think of Rachel Dolezal.
So the definition of what “Latino” is comes from… the US institutions?
The person in the tweet is American so I used the American census definition. I’m pretty confident any reputable source doesn’t count “loving hard” as a valid reason to identify as Latino.
Obviously the “loving hard” part is dumb, but I hope you see the irony on posting this tweet and then citing for the definition of “Latino” a website from a US institution
I think I quite clearly explained why I used the American definition for this American.
There are MILLIONS of Latinos in the US, wtf is this shit, the US isn’t allowed to describe its own people?
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It’s more complicated than that. Latinos in the US also have Native American blood (usually South American). They have a terrible history of persecution. Someone who’s from Spain isn’t “Latino”.
No, they are Hispanic. Spain is a Latin country however, like Portugal, France, Italy, Romania and a couple of other small European countries.
That’s not what Latino means in this context, it means specifically from Latin America.
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The link to the site is in my comment. You can find out for yourself what the OMBs current definition is, that’s if this is a genuine question and not asked in bad faith.
that’s if this is a genuine question and not asked in bad faith.
I’ve got some notions about which of those is likely true.
Me too, but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt once. The user has had their warning, they will be immediately banned if they break the community rules.
Judging by the amount of xenophobic shit I had to read today, I’d argue Russian trolls have finally arrived.
I’m afraid I’ve interacted with the two users skirting dangerously close to rules before - they appear to be real people. It might be tempting to blame bots and foreign interference but there’s plenty of “normal” people who either believe the crap they come out with, or just really like shit-stirring.
I think I’m fairly strict here though, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Russian bot or American basement dweller, you get one warning before a permanent ban. I’m open to feedback and suggestions on how this community it run though.
Read it again.
Thx 😅
You are not latina just because you love hard 😂
Welcome to modern liberalism where nothing means anything.
Hurr durr, the world is black and white. Anything I don’t like is modern [insert opposing political party].
