[cfcosta]

As a Latino: it's bullshit. I'm willing to accept the changes you do to your English, it's completely fine, your language your rules.

Trying to change my language is a no-no, in my opinion, and feel dehumanizing, as if my culture isn't "progressive" enough and had to be changed.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Sounds reasonable.

But wait. What happens if a Latino/Latina does this, since then it would be their language too? Is the claim that everyone pushing Latinx is non-Latin?

There are movements afoot in German and French to reduce (long term remove) gender from the language. This isn't just a phenomenon occuring at the conjunction of Spanish and the US.

[selfhoster11]

> Is the claim that everyone pushing Latinx is non-Latin?

As far as I can tell, that is exactly what the article claims - that Latinx was invented by and is being pushed by signallers only, and mostly non-Latin ones.

[leephillips]

As far as I can tell from reading it, that claim is not made in the article [replying to your comment before you edited it].

[selfhoster11]

Yup, sorry. Edited for precision.

[plorkyeran]

So you're fine with latinx as long as we're writing in English?

[cfcosta]

It's not an English word, so yeah, kinda. I use "singular they" nowadays, but I'll not speak "gender neutral Portuguese" because English people want me to.

[potatoz2]

The original Latinx idea came from Latino/a non-binary people. The -x suffix is also being pushed in some Latin American countries, like Argentina, by a minority.

Also note that Latino is an American English word now, and it makes sense that it'd evolve on its own independent of the original word in Spanish.

[SubiculumCode]

I'd be fine with saying just, "The Latins."