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8 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The extent to which know-it-all scolds erase the Latinx people *who identify as Latinx* from the discourse — treating the word as the coinage of ivory-tower intellectuals and lefty nonprofits instead — is f’ing wild. Image
I get and respect the data on the politics of using the word. What I can’t abide is the complete whitewash of how the term originated with queer, genderqueer and non-binary people of Latin descent. See @jpbrammer here: them.us/story/latinx-i…
It’s not my place to police the word or recommend it’s usage, but I can damned well tell people to cut it out with the fiction that ‘Latinx’ sprang into being as some alien construct wholly unknown by people of Latin or Hispanic descent. Just f’ing stop it.
See also this personal essay by my dear friend @rpbp, who I really ought to have over for biscuits soon:
Like @jbouie, I think my opinion of the word means diddly squat. I’ve just tired of seeing otherwise intelligent people—even some friends, even LGBTQ+ people!—getting the story of the word unabashedly and completely wrong in public.

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Not to get all high and mighty, but “the job of [a] brother, sister, mother, father, daughter, [or] son” is to hold immediate kin accountable when they do harm — preferably before that harm has public, never mind legal, consequences.
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One of the worst annoyances I’ve encountered in progressive politics is how some people and institutions, when push comes to shove, eschew the values they preach in public.
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Still, it’s incumbent on our institutions to _demonstrate_ that a better world, that a better way of working, is possible.
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But sure, let’s write their needs off as ‘niche.’
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Mm-hm. ↘️
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