<story><title>“Latinx” is lexical imperialism</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/call-latinx-what-it-lexical-imperialism-opinion-1656828</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>the main thing is that we keep the political focus on race &amp;amp; gender etc instead of focusing on old fashioned things like progressive taxation, healthcare, worker rights &amp;amp; benefits, etc.&lt;p&gt;The current progressive focus on race and gender is new, and new is always better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also really amazing at dividing lower&amp;#x2F;working classes into two groups. Which makes it much harder for them to band together and push for a change in how the country treats the poorest majority.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Latinx” is lexical imperialism</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/call-latinx-what-it-lexical-imperialism-opinion-1656828</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>the main thing is that we keep the political focus on race &amp;amp; gender etc instead of focusing on old fashioned things like progressive taxation, healthcare, worker rights &amp;amp; benefits, etc.&lt;p&gt;The current progressive focus on race and gender is new, and new is always better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nineplay</author><text>I completely agree with you, with the qualifier that the article is very much part of the problem.  These sort of issues always start small and then the media picks them up and splashes them on the front page purely as outrage bait.&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no reason to care about this issue.  I&amp;#x27;ll bet 99% of the people reading the article have absolutely no reason to care.  I don&amp;#x27;t care if I see Latin(o|a|x) on a form, if I was creating a form and someone asked me to include Latinx I&amp;#x27;d say &amp;#x27;sure, why not&amp;#x27;.  This is an artificial culture war created by a click happy media.</text></comment>