Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@fourchickens Read the article. It says that Latinx is supported by exactly 3 percent of the people to whom the term would apply. Case closed. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 1, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This article offers a clear and compelling explanation why I will never use the term "Latinx" and why I inadvertently recoil when I see it in print. As the article points out, "Latino" can be gender neutral in many situations thereby obviating the need for a gender neutral term. — PolitiTweet.org

“Latinx”? It’s not doing anything for social justice and only 3 percent of Hispanics use it. Two historians,… https://t.co/hSpUivCEvT

Posted May 1, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mcpli "Latin" is absolutely fine with me. And if they throw in a few classical studies majors and teachers of Julius Caesar's rhetoric, it is still infinitely preferable to "Latinx." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 1, 2021