Newspeak Watch: "Latine"

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As I've said many times: the contemporary left is a very literary/linguistic movement. And ever since the paleo-PC days of yore, they've loved nothing more than making up new pseudo-technical Newspeak. "Latinx" was always hilariously characteristic of this postpostmodern left. Prior to that was 'Latino/a' (or a/o?). Others have pointed out that 'Latin' would be the natural, non-stupid/goofy, non-neologistic term to use...if you gotta use such a term. But that is obviously no good at all! That's, like, WHITE SUPREMACY, man... Or some shit. Sometimes they just press an already-existing word or phrase into service--as they did, say, with 'white supremacy'--or, before that, 'partner'... But that's def. second best! Best is a really, really stupid-sounding new term. Probably my favorite of the past few years was 'misogynoir'...a portmanteau of different components guaranteed to send a frisson of political excitement down the spine of any popomo lefty... Not that you can't puzzle it out, but, of course, it means something like: aversion to black women. Oh, damn, I almost forgot 'transmisogynoir'...an even stupider and more hilarious term...

   At least "Latine" doesn't build in absurd presuppositions like "trans woman" or "assigned female at birth." It's merely irritating. So I guess we can be grateful for that...