Do you like the term Hispanix?

[Sumner 1868]

It's not as common as Latinx, but there are a few DEI people using it:

https://nau.edu/education-abroad/dreamers-daca/

https://www.sc.com/us/diversity-and-inclusion/

[Blue3]

No, that's just silly. Hispanic is already gender-neutral. (And Latinx is now not used as much as Latin, pronounced and sometime spelled as Latine)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Man, I really do wonder how the "Latinx" defenders are going to spin this one, as "Hispanic" is already gender-neutral.

But this was really all about gender-neutral language and not just tossing random x's on words, right? Hence why gendered words like "folks" need to be made into "folx".

[VBM]

Man, I really do wonder how the "Latinx" defenders are going to spin this one, as "Hispanic" is already gender-neutral.

But this was really all about gender-neutral language and not just tossing random x's on words, right? Hence why gendered words like "folks" need to be made into "folx".

How is folks even a gendered word?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Man, I really do wonder how the "Latinx" defenders are going to spin this one, as "Hispanic" is already gender-neutral.

But this was really all about gender-neutral language and not just tossing random x's on words, right? Hence why gendered words like "folks" need to be made into "folx".

How is folks even a gendered word?

It's very obviously not. But that didn't start "folx" from becoming a thing.

[progressive85]

When you place the emphasis on the "-ix" at the end, it sounds like a new drug ("Hispanix can lower your cholesterol levels, there is also a possibility of sudden death, please ask your doctor about Hispanix").

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Hell No

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

When you place the emphasis on the "-ix" at the end, it sounds like a new drug ("Hispanix can lower your cholesterol levels, there is also a possibility of sudden death, please ask your doctor about Hispanix").

I can see that.

[Vice President Christian Man]

This doesn't make sense seeing how Hispanic itself is gender neutral. This seems like the even worse sequel of the horrible movie that nobody asked for.

[progressive85]

When you place the emphasis on the "-ix" at the end, it sounds like a new drug ("Hispanix can lower your cholesterol levels, there is also a possibility of sudden death, please ask your doctor about Hispanix").

I can see that.

lol, it also reminds me of a cereal, like Crispix.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

When you place the emphasis on the "-ix" at the end, it sounds like a new drug ("Hispanix can lower your cholesterol levels, there is also a possibility of sudden death, please ask your doctor about Hispanix").

I can see that.

lol, it also reminds me of a cereal, like Crispix.

Also that.

[Sopranos Republican]

Man, Elon’s really getting good at sneaking his marketing in everywhere.

[Goldwater]

There is no way this is a real thing that actual people unironically support.

[Antonio the Sixth]

is that an Asterix character

[Sir Mohamed]

Nah. It sounds silly.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Kind of misses the point of why "latinx" is a thing in the first place.

[Left Wing]

LOVE IT

[Mexican Wolf]

Yes, because it's nice to stick it to the Talk Elections Royal Language Academy every once in a while.

[GeneralMacArthur]

When I was a little kid I too thought it was cool to slap random Z's and X's into words and write thinly-veiled Star Wars fanfiction about space aliens with names like "Zaxator the destroyer"

[wnwnwn]

It's nonsense.
I could talk about latinxs, but at least that has some sense.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Incidentally, the existence of the word "Hispanic" puts a point on how useless "Latinx" is as a term in English, as we already had a gender-neutral term. Makes sense that people would want to warp that one too.

[RINO Tom]

It looks like a junior high girl in 2003 spelling “Hispanics.”

[Independents for Nihilism]

I hate this almost as much as when people say "folx"

[ingemann]

It’s better than Latinx and Latine which sounds like anti-Hispanic slurs. It’s also better for linguistic reasons, as Hispanic is a English word and as such it’s more a way to play with the English language than bunch of cultural imperialists enforcing their neurotic delusions on another language and culture.

Of course I’m still negative, because I don’t the obsession with the letter x, it seem a call back to the Black struggle, except when it was used then, it was used in a intelligent and cultural significant manner, while now it’s used in a stupid and plagiarizing manner.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

     Incidentally, the existence of the word "Hispanic" puts a point on how useless "Latinx" is as a term in English, as we already had a gender-neutral term. Makes sense that people would want to warp that one too.

The two do not mean the same thing, although in the US the Venn Diagram of people both apply to is close to a complete overlap, but for example Brazilians are Latino but not Hispanic, and Spaniards are Hispanic but not Latino. Incidentally this is why I've heard some wokesters argue why "Hispanic" isn't OK, because it includes Spain the evil colonizing country. Which of course is something that virtually no Hispanic/Latino people (using the slash here to cover people who fall under both categories) in the US or Latin America care about now.