Ah, Ross Clark. The lone remaining embattled Libertarian Thatcherite. Never mind him.
Asian is probably the most confusing classification in the US, even more than hispanic/latino or whatever itās called now (latinx?).
Lebanese are Asians. Syrians are Asians. So are Pashtuns in Afghanistan and all Indians. Dark skinned Gulf Arabs, despite living in Asia would be classified as white in the US, unlike European Spaniards.
Should the label āasianā be considered racist? Iām asking this in the old common sense way, not new wokeish.
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I donāt think so. Itās more about pragmatism. Different cultures, languages, ethnicities, religions, skin color and all that.
I think this would apply to first generation immigrants. Probably wonāt matter to the next. I donāt know; donāt really care. No plans of ever moving to the West. Iām a tropical boy. 21 degrees celsius is cold to me lol.
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Got to have those selfies:
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Folks who didnāt grow up around firearms or missed training courses scare the pants off me at the range for exactly these reasons.
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In the US, Hispanic is designated as a cultural distinction, not a race. Source Census
@idaho Good job on Range Master. Dumb clowns
I really think that the people, ālatinoā or otherwise, who came up with latinx donāt speak Spanish well, if at all. They certainly donāt know grammar and the difference between a noun and adjective.
Can we have gender based language in this woke era?
Spanish is transphobic because it forces children to describe the world through imposed binary genders.
On a serious note, Iāve recently talked to a woke Argentinian person (blue hair shaved on one side, obeseā¦the whole package) and realized that she (?) used a made up neutral gender. First I thought it was my Castilian vs. Rioplatense Spanish but actually it was a wooden effort at āfeminist Spanishā. Apparently is not that uncommon there among upper-middle class wokes.
No. Everyone must learn Hungarian. It has no gender - thereās no difference between he/she his/hers etc. and is therefore the perfect language. And Tagalog as well if I recall correctly.
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Iām just glad it went as well as it did considering the context of āIdiot with gun in one hand, cell phone in the otherā.
I was really expecting to see something else.
Jeffrey Tubinā¦
Took the term āCircle Jerkā too literally? 
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Can we shake on that, er nevermind.
Youāre smarter than that - you know these people want to obfuscate and control language ā¦ just look at what Hirono did to āsexual preferenceā ā¦ now thatās apparently an offensive termā¦
Iām fuckinā triggered
I look forward to your online tiradeā¦
Oh, thatās was it. Age and prolonged drama, for me, are negatively correlated it would seem.
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She ruined any that I had for oh, probably at least 15, maybe 20 minutes.
She looks like a shaved pug.
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That is probably true but I also believe they either canāt speak Spanish (forget about read and write it) or speak Spanglish, at best. The fact that Spanish speakers cannot pronounce Latinx (because itās unpronounceable) says something about their linguistic skills. Besides, grammatically speaking, Latinos (as a noun) is inclusive. It refers to males, females and presumably those with blue hair and nose rings.
Are you questioning the linguistic skills of Alexandria Ocassio Cortez? I know she can pronounce it and Iām sure (she thinks) sheās as, if not more, knowledgeable of linguistics as Chomsky