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so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them to it.”

Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“

Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk. Just when you thought-“

I don’t understand, it clearly pisses off Latino folks a lot

What are people trying to convey when they use it? Are there like, white people who think it’s the politically correct word to use or something? Are they trying to make it sound cool or more exotic? How the fuck do you even pronounce it?

??????

Doing a little research it’s apparently a ‘gender neutral’ version of the word Latino, but the word was already intended as gender neutral when in reference to people as a whole

But again, it… VERY CLEARLY pisses a lot of people off, so… why

Tbh it only pisses transphobes off. I’m a nonbinary latino guy. We use mostly latinu or latine, but latinx is ok too.

We don’t have gender neutral pronouns here and mostly of the words are gendered. So we nonbinary people are still figuring it out. I use male pronouns tho. But I have lots of nonbinary friends who use “e” and “u” instead of “x” (for us, “a” is female and “e” is male). It’s kinda hard to explain if you’re not brazilian yourself. But “x” is also ok and welcome in the community.

Tumblr is really full of alt rights, ttansphobes and even nazis (as well as facebook and twitter tbh) so you may be seeyng their part of the argument. Which wans’t supposed to exist at all since we trans people are ok with it. Cis folks are just being trashy right now.

Sorry for the typos and bad english, as it’s really late here in Brazil. But yeah it’s really a non issue being discussed by bigoted cis people and it’s tiring to see.

Objects, animals, places, all of these are gendered here in Brazil. Like, a chair is a her, a mirror is a him and so on.

We always been in a bad place with transphobia with trans people usually being killed before we turn 36 years old. We’re one of the countrys with the highest count for trans people being murdered simply because they’re trans and our President right now, who is very popular, openly says that gay and trans people should be beaten until they become cishet. So everything trans and nonbinary related is usually poorly received by people outside the lgbt community.

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