BernieHQ after seeing the FL polls
Posted Mar 12, 2020, 10:47 AM UTC
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I wonder what dog whistle term they will start using to refer to Hispanics after Florida?
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They'll probably just pull from the Trump playbook and say Biden won because of "illegals"
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'Reactionaries'
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Gusanos.
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Bernie brings out diverse groups to the polls! There's the white condescending jerks, the white know-it-all jerks, and the white more progressive than thou jerks!
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It’s actually just “Cubans don’t count”
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He was stupid to say anything about Castro. That basically will lose him Florida and Florida is a state that actually matters in the electoral college system
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NPR was trying to salvage bernie's poor performance on Tuesday night with that. They are using bernie's modest plurality of one demographic in a crowded field in early contests to claim almost universal preference.
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To be fair only 23.2% of the FL population are of Hispanic origin, with probably half of them being Ted Cruz-types.
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When did it change from BernieBro?
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I think Biden tweeted something about “Bernie Brothers” a bit ago, and it sorta took off from there
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From someone whose mother tongue is a gendered languaged, Latinx is cringe. The masculine (latino) is already considered the gender neutral term.
I feel like people who use Latinx should go full bore and pronounce every spanish gendered word with an x at the end instead of an -o or an -a. I always just refer to myself as hispanic.
Hispandex works with the x I think
FTFY
Sounds like an Asterix character
From the province of Hispanola, of course.
Spandex is what you wear at sporting events so ur balls don’t slap around in your shorts
Yeah I agree. It’s really idiotic that words are gendered so I rather we just make them all gender neutral but by using the masculine base. It would make things easier, especially in my language, French.
My native language is gendered as well. But from all the scholarly papers I've read from people from Latin America, Latinx has become the norm. I'll just stick with it, doesn't do any harm.
By people from Latin America, do you mean US residents and citizens from that region or people living in Latin America? It seems mostly a US/Anglophone thing and doesn't seem likely to gain traction among Spanish speakers who have their own gender neutral alternatives, including ones that are pronounceable within Spanish phonology.
No, scholars from Latin America who use latinx when publishing in English.
Thanks for that clarification.
Quite literally no one I know born in Latin America uses the term Latinx. It’s a gringo bastardizadion of Spanish and defending it is peak white wokeness that pisses off so many people.
I got the term from reading it in research papers. Idk what to tell people, but there are people who are Hispanic/Latino who use that term. I just use it because I didn't think anyone would be pissed off by that in any way.
Yes, high academia uses the term. It’s a bubble. The fact that academia uses it in their research papers does not make it the standard throughout the Spanish speaking world. I know it’s not your fault, but it really does bother some of us who speak Spanish as their first language to see people who don’t even speak it try to change the words we use because they cannot understand the concept of gendered words.
Thank you! Nothing about it's use even makes sense. No one is consistent with it. TBH there was never a need for it until a few outlets tried to make it a thing.
Who knew that languages could change over time.
Yeah English speaking countries sort of don’t get to change my language.
There are plenty of Hispanic people using it. Also, just because you use a language doesn't mean "it belongs to you".
I’ve literally ever only heard it used by academics, people trying to be woke, and children of immigrants who have never been back to their parents home-countries. Not a single first generation immigrant I know uses it. Not a single Spanish speaking country has adopted it. The vast majority of my friends and family speak Spanish and we all detest it and see it as another sign of white wokeness and cultural imperialism.
And it may not belong to me. But the language belongs to all Spanish speaking countries and I’m allowed to get pissed off when you try to impose your culture on others. But sure, I’m sure you English speaking folk know better than us what we should do. You always have after all!
I’m fine with languages changing, I’m not fine when it makes it harder to pronounce and uglier to fix a problem already solved by the fact that the masculine is gender-neutral too.
Nearly always from the bottom up (popular usage), not from the top down.
Serious question: Can you even pronounce Latinx in Spanish? Also isn’t it just Americans who say latinx?
Everything sounds weird until you do it enough, then it becomes the norm
You’re replacing vowels with a consonant. It’s always going to sound less smooth. French even more so than Spanish.
I thought it was weird. I've heard it so often, it's just another word