Right Wing Discussion Thread XIV: Join the Friendkorps

[Salus Maior]

Daily reminder that the Japanese quite liked the Germans and fashioned their own country after them as they westernized. For better or worse.

Yes, I'm aware. I was going to say something about Jakob Meckel but decided to be charitable. In case your memory fails, there are quite a lot of differences between my views and Meiji Japan.

Yes, I suppose yours is more isolationist and elitist.

[Senkaku]

Yes, I'm aware. I was going to say something about Jakob Meckel but decided to be charitable. In case your memory fails, there are quite a lot of differences between my views and Meiji Japan.

Yes, I suppose yours is more isolationist and elitist.

I mean from a US perspective I'd rather deal with an isolationist Japan than an imperialist one, so at least there's that...

Though ideally they could just stay our ally and find a middle way, since that'd be the most useful scenario and probably ideal for them too

[Reikoku]

Yes, I'm aware. I was going to say something about Jakob Meckel but decided to be charitable. In case your memory fails, there are quite a lot of differences between my views and Meiji Japan.

Yes, I suppose yours is more isolationist and elitist.

Someone should inform pearl divers and puppeteers that they're an elite then.

[Salus Maior]

Yes, I suppose yours is more isolationist and elitist.

Someone should inform pearl divers and puppeteers that they're an elite then.

And apparently nobility.

[Bienenhalde]

I'm pretty sure dumping a body in a body of water with "cement shoes" is more associated with the Mafia, not revolutionaries.

They're both Latins, so it evens out.

We should really try to bring back the use of the term "Latin" as an ethnonym. It sounds far better and less cringy than "Latinx".

[Painisia]

Rei, what do you think of the Tokugawa period? Are you suggesting that Japan should have remained a medieval feudal monarchy?

[Diopolis]

They're both Latins, so it evens out.

We should really try to bring back the use of the term "Latin" as an ethnonym. It sounds far better and less cringy than "Latinx".

Latinx sounds like a knock-off brand of fake fur. We should just keep following the gender rules of actual latin languages- latino/a, with o for mixed groups or indeterminates.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

They're both Latins, so it evens out.

We should really try to bring back the use of the term "Latin" as an ethnonym. It sounds far better and less cringy than "Latinx".

Can I fucking kiss you for that statement?

[Aellex]

"Cement Shoes is a largely fictional method of execution and/or body disposal, usually associated with criminals such as the Mafia or gangs. It involves weighting down the victim, who may be dead or alive, with concrete and throwing them into the water in the hope the body will never be found."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes

Dans les prisons de Nantes, y'avait un prisonnier, y'avait un prisonnier...

[Autarkheia]

Latinx is really cringy, and ungrammatical in both English and Spanish. The only reason to use it is to signal wokeness.

[Greater Arab State]

Latinx is really cringy, and ungrammatical in both English and Spanish. The only reason to use it is to signal wokeness.

I'm in agreement with that.

[Kubumba Tribe]

What does "latinx" even mean?

[Reikoku]

Rei, what do you think of the Tokugawa period? Are you suggesting that Japan should have remained a medieval feudal monarchy?

Considering that the mid-to-late Tokugawa Japan was a Neo-Confucian state which persecuted those accused of heresy for straying from the "orthodoxy" of the Chu Hsi school, I think that my stance is painfully obvious.

[Greater Arab State]

What does "latinx" even mean?

As far as I can tell it is a new-fangled term for Latin.

[Senkaku]

What does "latinx" even mean?

A (kind of silly) way to talk about Latinos or Latinas without gendering the term

[Benuty]

What does "latinx" even mean?

A (kind of silly) way to talk about Latinos or Latinas without gendering the term

It basically sounds like a way to call someone a nigger with the added benefit of making an already hard to understand language (to me) even harder. Genderless words are appropriate when needed, but trying to eradicate how a language has operated for quite some time...is unironically imperialist.

[Autarkheia]

The social justice crowd seems to like this [x] thing. Eg. Latinx, womxn, folx are all spellings I've seen. X is an edgy letter, so it looks countercultural.

[Kowani]

A (kind of silly) way to talk about Latinos or Latinas without gendering the term

It basically sounds like a way to call someone a nigger with the added benefit of making an already hard to understand language (to me) even harder. Genderless words are appropriate when needed, but trying to eradicate how a language has operated for quite some time...is unironically imperialist.

As a Spaniard, I would like to add a point. At least in Spain, there is a growing acceptance, both from governments and the everyday people, to degender the language, at least while writing on official forms, social media, and various other aspects of life. An example: Chic@s (Yes, the @ is purposeful.) is considered the neutral version now. Mind you, while speaking, it doesn’t work and we default back to the male gender. However, on social media, the use of “x” is more common. Todxs So, it’s not as baseless as you anglophones make it out to be.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

The social justice crowd seems to like this [x] thing. Eg. Latinx, womxn, folx are all spellings I've seen. X is an edgy letter, so it looks countercultural.

If X is an edgy letter, do they say "sex" or "sxx"?

[Valrifell]

The social justice crowd seems to like this [x] thing. Eg. Latinx, womxn, folx are all spellings I've seen. X is an edgy letter, so it looks countercultural.

If X is an edgy letter, do they say "sex" or "sxx"?

xxx, actually.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

If X is an edgy letter, do they say "sex" or "sxx"?

xxx, actually.

Okxy, thx

[Valrifell]

xxx, actually.

Okxy, thx

Nx prxblxm, fxllxw lxftxst lxbxrxl.

[Greater Arab State]

The social justice crowd seems to like this [x] thing. Eg. Latinx, womxn, folx are all spellings I've seen. X is an edgy letter, so it looks countercultural.

Are you being xxxist?

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Okxy, thx

Nx prxblxm, fxllxw lxftxst lxbxrxl.

(Please fucking shoot me)

[Valrifell]

But seriously, I've never seen any of those outside of Latinx, and that's only because English kind of expects a gender-neutral plural for that kind of thing, like how we adopted "them" for the same effect.