AlbigensianGhoul

The media makes it out to be of great importance that our allies and the West intervene in country, when two weeks ago most people couldn’t locate country on a map if their life depended on it.

God, this makes me feel old.

In Brazil I hardly hear people talking about it, and when they do it's a sort of "ignorant sympathy" for the people there, even if they don't really care to learn what's happening. It's really hard to be foaming at the mouth here for intervention abroad when our national bourgeoisie won't even get any benefits from said intervention. Only people who seem to care about "upholding global democracy" are the weirdo Europhiles, but they hardly remember Africa exists in the first place.

It's more like Afghanistan than Ukraine because they can't even worry about all the blue eyes white children.

Just to make it clear, I have no issue with the "-x" ending in and of itself and "yankee imposition" implies that anybody in Latin America cares about what the Yankees have to say about Spanish (or in my case, Portuguese) in the first place. I just think that Unitedstadians created their own problem by calling us "Latino" instead of "Latin" or "Latin-American," (which are both already gender-neutral) and then have to fall back to their own customs by putting the "-x" in there.

It really is a minor beef, but it's annoying to see them appropriating words and trying (and failing) to speak in Spanish to appear more inclusive. Their language is already gender neutral, they could just call us Latins, Latines, Latinamericans or (IMO my favourite) Americans, but gringo gotta appropriate culture.

My issue is not with gender neutral endings in romance languages (though I think they're rather underadopted right now), but that for some reason Yankees decided to go with the unpronounceable "X" ending rather than very old and established Latina/o or Latine or even Latin@. In my experience those are way more common than X endings, though I admit I haven't looked at hard data on that.

They could've just called them "Latins/Latin-Americans" but they chose to first a appropriate the grammar for "Latino" then think try to "fix" it in the classic Yankee fashion of not looking at already established norms.

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I've had an exp*t acquaintance no joke use "white statistics" for themself when considering migrating to there. Since they look like Freya Allan they'll probably even get their "one of the good ones" pass.

That'd be the correct way thinking in 1990 before they added "latino" as a synonym [PDF, page 3], but then they just randomly added that in without changing the question. Since Yankee ethnography is so crap and they usually don't even define their shit properly, as most social Yankee stuff (unrelated but they don't have a list of proscribed domestic terrorist groups, only foreign ones) you can never really know what strange conclusions their researchers might come to. It makes sense that they'd be terrible at this when the "Hispanic Question" is literally the only ethnicity question in the census, and you have shit like "race white, for example, German, Italian."

Technically, yeah, but all official US census stuff writes the whole label as "Latino or Hispanic" and use both interchangeably. It's not uncommon to hear people referring to Brazilians or even Haitians as "Hispanic," because to the common Yankee, being Latin American and Hispanic are the same thing.

It even generates some fun arguments on Quora such as "are Spanish people white?"

Yeah, I have a particular beef with those labels because, although I usually like my Latin American cousins, my "Hispanic" country speaks Portuguese and not Spanish. In the census there wasn't even an option for Latin American people who speak languages other than Spanish (Portuguese and French but also Guarani or Quechua or the various creoles).

It's extra insult to injury that they appropriate the gendered "Latino" instead of just using their own "Latin," but then feel the need to slap an X on it. I've never even seen non-Yankees using latinx instead of the age old latino/a/e/@ out there.

The Red Nation Podcast has a long episode that goes in depth about the boarding "schools" from their own Marxist indigenous perspective. Always good to listen straight from the affected people's mouth.

I forgot to ask but which of the three logos would you like?

I'd like the plain one with the logo, please. They're gonna be small, but I want people to at least be able to google it if they see one.

I can DM you a hi-res logo and you can order your own sticker roll on aliexpress if you want (then make a small paypal donation to pw lol).

Oh that'd be lovely. If I do that and somebody else buys it too, I'll make sure the profit goes to PW. No hurry on the spreadshirt storefront though, this is more of a cute thing compared to all the great work at ProleWiki.

I'll wait for the spreadshirt then, their shipping over here is usually much cheaper. Redbubble is usually a bit mean on the global south, but the price of the stickers themselves are quite good. If I could get like 15 other people interested it could still be worth it. I'm also really interested in those "cheaper" bulk stickers that were mentioned a while back, they make for great wall decorations.

I might make some makeshift ones until then. It's always good to learn how to print out some propaganda.