Maybe we’re talking past each other. Spanish is a white language. Latin is a white language. It’s exactly as white as English. It’s totally fine for white people to tell other white people to wrestle with undoing the harm of the oppression that white people caused.
Just because non-white people also speak it doesn’t mean it’s not a white language. Jamaicans speak English. Haitians speak French. Arubans speak Dutch.
It’s very possible we are! In this case I went with Latinx specifically because it’s a term generally used to describe people who aren’t white - and I know quite a few people who would argue that while spanish originates in europe in modern usage it’s primarily a hispanophone american language - a population that are largely considered “brown” and need far less american interference in their lives already…
Maybe we’re talking past each other. Spanish is a white language. Latin is a white language. It’s exactly as white as English. It’s totally fine for white people to tell other white people to wrestle with undoing the harm of the oppression that white people caused.
Just because non-white people also speak it doesn’t mean it’s not a white language. Jamaicans speak English. Haitians speak French. Arubans speak Dutch.
It’s very possible we are! In this case I went with Latinx specifically because it’s a term generally used to describe people who aren’t white - and I know quite a few people who would argue that while spanish originates in europe in modern usage it’s primarily a hispanophone american language - a population that are largely considered “brown” and need far less american interference in their lives already…