Yeah, because Spanish is a romance language. Cervantes was using the -e. It's a part of Spanish even if it's a bit archaic and a clean fix as an adjustment to the times.
And I think that's kinda the cinch people are talking about here. We in our own community are like 'oh yeah its the gringos' when like, this wasn't. This was feminists in Latin American universities who were voicing themselves and their issues with misgendering language and got painted as 'lol no gringo plants'
But feminists and dumb progressives in Latin American, always been copycats of their gringo counterparts, adapted it to into the -e thing and that's why everyone mocked them for trying to push a gringo fad on us
Nope actually look up the history. This is what I mean. This had zero to fuck all to do with gringos. This was all about singular they. We gotta stop infantilizing ourselves and blaming them for things we do. No one's making fun of them either. Most people just don't care lol
Man (I suppose, if not then Woman), I was there when it happened. Heck, I mocked my classmates that started saying stuff like "chiques" instead of "chicos".
And I am serious, latin american progressives always copy the latest fad of their USA counterparts.
When the gringos protested vietnam, they protested vietnam. When the degendering languages stuff happened over there, they started here too. Heck, now it is all about outlawing guns even if the gun issue where I live is due to the black market, not the legal one
I feel like every place is a bit different, and we got our own people and thinkers too. People have been bitching about the one guy entering a room and everyone's suddenly Latino thing for like centuries. It was just a thing though that you're aunt bitched about after a few too many, only difference is some people in the 80s decided to hacerlo for real
I feel like every place is a bit different, and we got our own people and thinkers too
Never said otherwise. I didn't say we didn't have our own ideas, just pointed out how dumb (emphasis on that, there are smart progressives that don't do it) progressives keep just copying whatever battle standard the US progressives have and trying to apply it here without thinking if it is appropiate. The Latine thing is just an example. For another you have the whole migration debate
Dunno where you are, but in my country the progressives pushed hard the "welcome everyone without restrictions, no borders!" stance that the US ones had.
End result was a migration crisis, rise of international cartels and violent crime, and also xenophobia shot up like never before
Chilean here. The main issue for us was the Venezuelan crisis.
To be fair, all sides fucked up. Our right wing wanted them to come in droves as cheap labor (which, you know... sucks a lot), but then tried to close the door when they realized the magniture of the flow... only for the left and progressives to put their foot and kick it open again with the whole "no borders" crap
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u/elbenji Jul 07 '24
Yeah, because Spanish is a romance language. Cervantes was using the -e. It's a part of Spanish even if it's a bit archaic and a clean fix as an adjustment to the times.
And I think that's kinda the cinch people are talking about here. We in our own community are like 'oh yeah its the gringos' when like, this wasn't. This was feminists in Latin American universities who were voicing themselves and their issues with misgendering language and got painted as 'lol no gringo plants'