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Comment by freitzkriesler2 | Hacker News Reader

As a Hispanic American, I very regularly tell people I am Latino and that Latinx is incredibly offensive to my heritage. I'm in my 30s and the younger people I know also find it offensive.

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I go by XatinXox, personally. And I expect people to call me that before I even inform them of what I am called. They should just know.

I think you're joking, but 'Xicanx' is a real neologism in the same realm as Latinx.

maybe instead of arguing about what non-gendered term we should call this group of people we should instead admit that 'latino' is a projection onto a wide variety of people that have different cultural backgrounds but roughly share a language and sometimes a skin tone.

Or maybe we should tell people who started latinx garbage and started the arguing to fuck off and

> we should instead admit that 'latino' is a projection onto a wide variety of people that have different cultural backgrounds but roughly share a language and sometimes a skin tone.

instead of inventing more names to divide people by, just... not ?

I guess I should go back to referring to all people from SE Asia as Chinese since my American friends are just too lazy and dismissive to bother with people's actual nationality and prefer broad and vague terms for the other.

You could just call them asians as is widely accepted since forever.

There is nothing wrong with using more generic term if you don't know exact nationality of the person.

Out of curiosity, more or less offensive than referring to you as Latina?

If it's blissful ignorance where someone doesn't know the how gendered pronouns work, that's not a problem. If it's someone who is intentionally adding an X to the end because of some perceived gender nonsense, then that's offensive.

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