[Bee] BERKELEY, CA — Speaking from the heart of higher learning at UC Berkley, sociology experts have issued formal guidelines that Hispanic individuals should always be called the gender-neutral term "latine" if you want to get punched right in the face.
The term "latine" has gained popularity in recent weeks thanks in part to an article in Axios in which the author reportedly made up the term as an elaborate prank.
"Latinx is an outdated term, as everyone was making fun of us and giving us wedgies for using it," said Gender-Ethnic Studies Professor Edwina Skuzz, while holding a bag of frozen peas on her swollen eye socket. "Latine is the new official term for persons of Hispanic origin that will help you avoid offensive gendered language."
"Unfortunately, it will not help you avoid getting punched in the face."
"I dare you to call me 'Latine' one more time," said José Gonzales, a farmer in Ranco Encantada, as he pulled up his sleeves and prepared to punch our reporter in the face.
Critics are reportedly calling on the Latine people to "calm down," imploring them that violence is not the answer.
At publishing time, experts clarified that Leftists should probably stop talking to Hispanics altogether.
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If you call "Hispanics" "Latine", how do you call Italian-Americans?
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It makes me laugh all the time when the hispanics here in Texas are shocked at how well my wife speaks Spanish (She teaches it for a college, and to many a student's surprise when they learn she teaches SPANISH and not street Mexican:D, no easy A). She often points out to them that her family is Italian and that Spanish and Italian are dialects of Latin.
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Considering that the bulk of hispanic types have no problem with and even prefer 'latino', what this is really about is, "the "elites" feel they have the authority to tell you how you should identify and feel about yourself.
Your own ideas don't even come into it.
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The Swiss in Grisons Canton still speak Romansch, a derivative of Latin from remnant Romans left in Cis-Alpine Gaul after the sacking of the Western Roman Empire from the Vandal/Gothic invasions of the middle fifth century, and the final collapse to Germanic Odoacer in 476.
Wiki cite: "Romansh is one of the descendant languages of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area. Romansh retains a small number of words from these languages. "
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Talking with a Swiss woman one time: “ what language do you speak in Switzerland?”
(Suddenly rather agitated) “ I don’t know what language! It hasn’t got a name!”
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[Breitbart] Alan Ritchson, the star of Amazon’s hit show, Reacher, claims to be "very disturbed" that police officers can get away with murdering people "all the time" and are never held accountable for it.
The 41-year-old actor cast his accusation about lawless police officers in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter last week in which he made a series of admissions of his extreme views.
The tough guy actor has revealed his anti-cop sentiment in the past, of course. He raised eyebrows in August of 2020 by wearing a t-shirt calling for the arrest of the Kentucky Police officers who shot Breonna Taylor in March of that year.
Ritchson spoke about the Taylor shooting to the Reporter, calling it a "tragic case. But he went on to attack all police officers everywhere.
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"I mean, you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in our institutions," he said.
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Further, more and more police departments are raising standards to include college courses, as well.
Ritchson made a number of other extreme statements during his Reporter interview, as well.
He called former President Donald Trump a "rapist," hinted that one cannot be a Christian and a Trump voter, called the Catholic Church a haven for pedophiles.
He also admitted that he got so depressed as his acting career was ramping up that he tried to commit suicide.
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