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[Revolutionary]

They've hid several comments on the tweet in an attempt to silence some folks, but it seems they gave up and just let the post fester like a pile of dog shit that they didn't have the decency to clean up.

I remember them making a Black @ Bungie thing a few years ago as well, but latinos aren't taking this one lying down, because this madness needs to stop. The word is LATINO or LATINA. If they want to respect our culture, then respect our language FFS!

This will probably get locked but whatever, I thought this was hilarious.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Shat the fuck is a Latinx?

 

[ReBurn]

lol

 

[Cert.in.Death]

And I think to myself: what a wonderful world

 

[Tomofdahook17]

Incase anyone isn't aware. Just like the meme above, actual Hispanics hate this shit.

 

[Draugoth]

Classic Corpo L.

Remember when 343 made a Black Pride Event on Halo Infinite with a template named 'Bonobo'?

 

[Kataploom]

I'd rather get overlooked as I don't exist or called a son of a bitch than accept being called "Latinx", "Latine" or some shit like that

BTW, the phone auto corrector doesn't show Latinx as a typo, WTF

 

[Kacho]

“What does woke even mean?”

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Wth does latin/e/i/o/u/a/x/z/g even mean?

 

[TheDraconian]

Bungie:

 

[3liteDragon]

Good, what a bunch of clowns.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

So glad I deleted Destiny 2 and haven't looked back. Fuck that company.

 

[semiconscious]

why can't companies simply stop doing this stuff? why? when it's fucking guaranteed to backfire every fucking time? why?...

 

[Tomofdahook17]

Holy shit I am cracking up!

Holy

 

[GHG]

Fucking clown world.

 

[tmlDan]

im more shocked this hasn't been taken down yet.

I saw it yesterday and I knew it wasn't gonna go well and this morning it was a shit storm.

Who tf works PR and Comms there, they better be fired for not immediately retracting and apologizing for this.

 

[Interfectum]

So when are all of these Trump and COVID-era purple hairs going to be fired from these companies?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

The post shows an extra snippet for me:

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

"Latinx" no es representativo para la mayor parte de la comunidad latina."Latinx" es considerado ofensivo al ser creado e impuesto por ciudadanos Estadounidenses.Los términos correctos son "Latino, Latina" y más progresivo es "Latine"bbc.com/mundo/noticias…depauliaonline.com/45933/ladepaul…

That's rough, they should just delete this tweet or something

 

[StueyDuck]

Cringe as fuck

The sad thing is that the dumb arse pink haired social media idiots made this whole thing

While actual intelligent and talented developers who actually are coding and creating tools and engine features or designing gameplay and so on are getting their names dragged through the shit because of this.

Then that pink hair just gets another higher paying social media role and moves on after a year at the company and doing all the damage with no consequence

 

[TransTrender]

Lots of LOLs here
I like the webpage Introducing Latin @ Bungie
Bitch? Are all your games going to be written and VA'd in Latin like the old Catholic masses my parents had to deal with?
What's with that logo? It's like 'White Power Stormfront' meets 'The Rainbow Brigade'
Love the Twitter community feedback on top of it all

 

[Sleepwalker]

What a disaster lmfao.

Fuck this latinx bullshit.

 

[Madserb2023]

I heard that true Latinos are middle class white people who once had a Taco Bell. As somebody who has been to the staunchly religiously conservative land that is South America I can tell you they are bang on the money.......

 

[Crayon]

Anyone who adopted saying Latinx has painted themselves into a corner. If they stop saying it, they'll get blown up on social media.

 

[Tams]

The only Latin I know is the mostly written language that the Romans used.

-bam -bas -bat -bamus -batis -bant
-o -s -t -mus -tis -nt
-bo -bis -bit -bimus -bitis -bunt

And now you have the Roman Empire on your mind. You can thank me later.

P.S. Or your girlfriend can thank me later.

 

[lughnasadh123]

I'm 100% about bring in representation but I'm so confused here. All I understand is lightning bolt. Maybe...

 

[RoboFu]

With does latin/e/i/o/u/a/x/z/g even mean?

My guess is it’s more of a gender thing than nationality. In most Spanish speaking countries o is masculine and a is feminine. So Latino is masculine and Latina is feminine. abuelo is grandfather abuela Is grandmother, tio and tia uncle and aunt… señor señorita .. ect.

So x is probably some non-binary stupid made up shit because people like to use the term Latino for everything. And then every crazy needs their own gender letter..

 

[El Sabroso]

good on all people calling out those companies attempting with their bullshit of latinx, STFU bungie pendejo

Wth does latin/e/i/o/u/a/x/z/g even mean?

In spanish at least which is a latino language, we have female words which usually end with a (example: latina, amiga) and the progressive people use to end with e to include everyone, even when in spanish a "male" word which usually ends in o like latino refers as a group which includes both male and female in the same group. so is just a way to include us in the stupidity society been changing the way we speak to sound really more stupid

 

[Moneal]

why can't companies simply stop doing this stuff? why? when it's fucking guaranteed to backfire every fucking time? why?...

Money. It helps keep their ESG score up. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/esg-investing/

 

[StueyDuck]

The only Latin I know is the mostly written language that the Romans used.

-bam -bas -bat -bamus -batis -bant
-o -s -t -mus -tis -nt
-bo -bis -bit -bimus -bitis -bunt

And now you have the Roman Empire on your mind. You can thank me later.

Romxn empire* ftfy

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

You mean various groups are not waiting around for entitled elitist white people to tell them what their label is? Shocker!

 

[Puscifer]

Shat the fuck is a Latinx?

I would call my now ex husband this and it would enrage him. It's basically wokies policing gendered language in ones they don't even speak and it's gained some traction but it's always overwhelmingly negative

 

[Thirty7ven]

Holy shit I am cracking up!

Holy

But isn’t this an American thing for Americans? Why would it matter what Hispanics outside the U.S think?

By the way… do people even remember why Latin, or we have just developed mass selective memory and now have decided that Latin just means Spanish speaking people???

 

[Faust]

I'm 100% about bring in representation but I'm so confused here. All I understand is lightning bolt. Maybe...

From what I gathered, Spanish is a language that refers to its speakers/residents as Latina or Latino - strictly gendered. This is just the way the language works. Actual spanish speakers call out Bungie, full of "priviledged white men/women/others" who use the west coast vernacular to remove the gendered connotations by referring to them as Latinx/e/z.

Essentially white people trying to virtue signal without understanding history, context, or the language itself and trying to push themselves as the arbiters of moral truth/justice while actual native speakers and folks they are trying to appeal to calling them out on their BS.

 

[Tams]

Romxn empire* ftfy

 

[Sleepwalker]

My guess is it’s more of a gender thing than nationality. In most Spanish speaking countries o is masculine and a is feminine. So Latino is masculine and Latina is feminine. abuelo is grandfather abuela Is grandmother, tio and tia uncle and aunt… señor señorita .. ect.

So x is probably some non-binary stupid made up shit because people like to use the term Latino for everything. And then every crazy needs their own gender letter..

Doesn't matter. Latinos is a plural term that encompasses all. Just like Abuelos is grandparents.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

I'm Hispanic and luckily, no one has described me as Latinx...yet. The Spanish language is rooted on the use of masculine and feminine versions of words. The people trying to push this Latinx vocabulary are essentially telling us that our language needs improvement. Fuck them.

 

[MiguelItUp]

The whole Latinx thing has been SO absurd, lmao. Every Hispanic person I've ever known (including myself), have thought that it's absolutely ridiculous and serves no purpose in the area of language and culture. But for whatever reason some folks try so hard to push it, what's great is seeing a lot of actual Hispanic folks call it out as ridiculous and unnecessary. I've never seen it get the opposite treatment which is beautiful IMO.

 

[Holammer]

Time for Sony to rein in Bungie before the blowback reaches them.

 

[Faust]

Time for Sony to rein in Bungie before they get blowback reaches them.

Bungie and Sony will just hide behind the "People who disagree are just bigots" concept that social media has popularized. Easy enough to dismiss any criticism as referring to them as bigots.

 

[Del_X]

lmao fuck this insane passionless gutless industry

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

My girl is Dominican and a ton of my friends are hispanic. The only time Latinx has come up was ironically and to trash it. The irony of ultra-progressive white people coming full circle and telling brown people what to do again.

The do this shit with black and mixed people as well. Creating blanket moral and social standards we're supposed to be leaders of because...all minorities want the same thing because oppression? I don't know but lord, shut the fuck up with this kind of corny shit, nobody asked for it.

 

[ShadowNate]

Yay, money well spent Bungie to whoever you hired for these safe-space marketing tweets.

 

[Kacho]

So x is probably some non-binary stupid made up shit because people like to use the term Latino for everything. And then every crazy needs their own gender letter..

That's extactly what it is. It's a classic case of radicals living in a bubble (primarily liberal white people) and they think the bullshit they care about resonates with normal people when it doesn't. Hence the blowback on this stupid tweet.

 

[DonF]

Bruh im latín, hire me and call me whatever you like!

 

[UnNamed]

12k comments from people mad with them.

But they are all wrong and some dude with pink hair is right.

 

[PontiusFeeb]

Categorizing people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character is racism. All these companies need to read a little Martin Luther King because they keep doing racist shit like this.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

But isn’t this an American thing for Americans? Why would it matter what Hispanics outside the U.S think?

You're not seriously suggesting only people from the US play Bungie games right? They are a global enterprise, you don't get to decide on changes to a foreign language because of your local gender ideologies.

 

[Drizzlehell]

I was confused at what these collection of symbols supposed to mean and now that I found out, I have learned a valuable lesson: I need to shut down the internet for today because I just got one step closer to being fucking retarded.

 

[Kurotri]

Damn, I thought the whole latinx shit was already killed a few years ago when hispanics trashed it similarly to this.

 

[RoboFu]

Doesn't matter. Latinos is a plural term that encompasses all. Just like Abuelos is grandparents.

Yeah but these are people who do not like the term “History” or “Mankind”