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the x is legitimately dumb though, the e is right there
It was meant as a text only placeholder and the poor enbie math nerd who came up with it is probably traumatized for life because of the machismo fuckasses that made hating it their entire reason to be.
Lol I'm transfem/enby and latine and I hate it. Latine is the way
Yeah it's dumb. But maybe hating on it is wrong. The latinx enby who came up with it tried their best. (And I'm calling them latinx because that's the word they invented for themself). It didn't work as good as latine, but so what? Who cares? We found a better option and most people use it, so there's no need to keep being mean. Only people who benefit if you keep being mean are the transphobic assholes. What do you want to help them for?
So you're one opinion. There is room for the other.
Missing almost the entire ass point. You're being that person who says "yeah but games journalism is actually pretty unethical tho..." in a gamergate discussion.
The practicality wasn't the reason it got targeted, the attempt at inclusivity from within the community is what got it targeted, the practicality is just the excuse they used to seem like they were being completely reasonable while terrorizing the early queer community that originally came up with it into silence.
You can disagree the letter worked while still not trying to shoehorn that point into a discussion about how that was not even remotely what drew so much hate to it when it was at peak attention.
...What? This person is not shoehorning in any conversation about anything.
They are saying they are exactly the kind of person who could identify themself as latinx and that they hate it and prefer latine.
You are arguing against things people are not actually saying.
"I'm a black person and I think we should be talking about ethics in game journalism."
I think its closer to
"I am a black person and I think we should be talking about the term african american vs black"
to which you replied
"Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech where he said that we should identify as simply Americans, but he was actually racist against black people so therefore historilinguistically we should use the term african american."
Being right doesn't care how people feel about it.