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In reply to the discussion: What issues are considered "far left"? [View all]dpibel
(3,513 posts)They seem to have this hare-brained idea that the term was "especially embraced by members of Latin LGBTQ communities as a word to identify themselves as people of Latin descent possessing a gender identity outside the male/female binary."
Now I realize that Merriam-Webster is not at all authoritative, especially as compare to posters on the internet, but there's at least an inference there that not all Hispanic people hated it.
As for your statement down thread that a quick DU search reveals a veritable shit-ton of uses and defenses of Latinx, I did a search for the term from 6/14 to present. It returned 75 instances of the term, a fair number of which were attached to a single username.
But I'm pretty sure that, if one were to know the total number of DU posts in the last 6 months, 75 would not precisely constitute a welter, let alone proof that the term is ubiquitous within the progressive community.
It surely is true, though, that a certain element in the discourse has leapt on any instance of the term with great glee and promoted it as being word of the century. It's just that having it said a million times by right-wingers does not mean it's been said a million times by the rest of us.
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