https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1422825829189496833
This list just keeps going and going and going
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Gotta be honest and say that I thought that was Photoshopped.
Looked it up and just got really impressed with his acting range.
I polled myself and find this remarkably accurate.
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1423107586266632192?s=19
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LatinX always seems cringey to me and I’m not quite sure how to pronounce it.
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Interesting. I always thought that Hispanic sounded better to me, a gringo, but was working to adopt Latino/a/x as it seemed to have wider adoption.
I feel like we had this convo once before. In the US “Hispanic” and “Latino” are certainly used mostly interchangeably but they’re technically different. Iirc, the consensus was that Hispanic is a language thing, and Latino is a geography thing. So Spaniards are Hispanic but not Latino, while Brazilians are Latino but not Hispanic.
I’m sort of getting used to Latinx but I don’t think I’ve heard it pronounced other than plain old “Latin-X”. Although that other way would be perfect if you’re Lin-Manuel Miranda and need a dope rhyme for “kleenex”.
The genders neutral term should simply be „Latin“.
Last night my wife tried to say something horrible about Larry Nassar but instead said it about Jerry Nadler. Sorry, Jerry!
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Or a porn director.
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I had to read this word for a question on a high school trivia competition and the pronunciation guide said that it rhymes with “Kleenex”.
Ive always heard it pronounced La-TEEN-ex
OK that is definitely porn now.
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Are we doing this with all Spanish words? GringX instead of gringo? It’s like we’re forcing gendered language into English and then trying to remove the gender and it’s all very clunky.
I work in the entertainment industry where in the casting world using politically correct language is now regarded as extremely important (which I’m fine with, given that even within the last few years I’ve seen a casting person use the word “mulatto”). Latinx is now mostly used to describe the ethnicity of all hispanic people. I have a trans/non-binary child and am thus, I think, pretty sensitive to the harm mis-applied gendered language can cause. So, using latinx to describe a non-binary hispanic person makes sense to me but I do not get “Male, 30-35, Latinx”. Which is now very common.
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Popehat seems to have shifted his views pretty substantially over the last year or two, no?
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Wait don’t you get bail before you are convicted? How can they say you’ve commited and offence involving violence if you’re presumed innocent? I mean obviously the answer is lol fuck you that’s why but still.
It’s quite horrible - it’s saying that if you were found guilty of some prior violent offense, you can’t have your bail paid for your current alleged crime, regardless of what the current alleged crime is.
More here:
The rule would apply regardless of whether someone was currently jailed on suspicion of an offense involving violence.
It would include cases similar to Hervis Rogers’, who was accused of voting illegally last month in Houston while he was still on parole for a burglary charge. Thankfully, the Bail Project stepped in to help him pay his $100,000 bail.
“Under this bill, because he has felony convictions in his past, a charitable bail organization couldn’t help Mr. Rogers,” State Rep. Joe Moody (R–El Paso) told NPR. “He didn’t commit a crime of violence here. He unknowingly voted.”
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According to the article, it sounds like the prohibition is against bailing out people who were previously convicted of a violent crime and have now been charged with something else.
So, say that 8 years ago you were convicted of armed robbery [or whatever crime the statute defines as “violent”] and served 5 years. If you get arrested for a new crime now, the organizations would be prohibited for posting bail for you while you await trial on the new charge.
[Also, based on the article, it doesn’t sound like the new charge necessarily has to be a violent crime.]