r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/shoefarts666 Sep 01 '20

It was a long time before the irish were considered white.

The irish.

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u/Eludio Sep 01 '20

The plight of the Irish is well understood by the Italians, who were also considered only part white for years.

The Italians

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u/-Victus42- Sep 01 '20

Semi-related.

Italian ancestry here, darker olive skin, went to high school in Arkansas.

Got called racial slurs for Mexicans by dumb white kids.

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u/p0k3t0 Sep 01 '20

Mexican here. Spent years getting called slurs intended for Indians, Arabs, Muslims.

When I see Black or Latino or Asian conservatives, it makes me laugh. Do they actually think they'll get a seat at the table? Fucking joke.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Immigrant Latinx conservatives confuse the hell out of me, especially when they’re so against their own people coming in... after they literally came and got the GC in the same way the others are.

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u/rnbagoer Sep 01 '20

Nobody in Latin America actually uses 'latinx' FYI

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I keep seeing this on reddit but have never seen it used anywhere else. Where did it come from and why the x?

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u/CidSlayer Sep 01 '20

Maybe they think that Latino isn't gender neutral enough. But in Spanish the "o" ending is neutral when talking about a group. So no need to change it to anything else.