Posted on 12/12/2021 11:08:08 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
omingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, has instructed staff and board members to drop the word "Latinx" from the group's official communications.
García sent the directive out in an email Wednesday night, addressed to Sindy Benavides, the league's CEO; David Cruz, its communications director; and the LULAC board.
"Let's stop using Latinx in all official communications," García said, adding that it's "very unliked" by almost all Latinos.
The email included a link to a Miami Herald editorial with the headline: "The 'Latinx community' doesn't want to be called 'Latinx.' Just drop it, progressives."
"The reality is there is very little to no support for its use and it's sort of seen as something used inside the Beltway or in Ivy League tower settings, while LULAC always rep Jose and María on Main Street in the barrio and we need to make sure we talk to them the way they talk to each other," García said in a phone interview with NBC News.
"I don't know of any abuelita (grandmother) that calls her granddaughter, 'Hey you Latinx, I'm going to throw you the chancla (flip-flop).' It just doesn't happen," he said.
There has long been debate about the word Latinx, which is intended to promote inclusivity and depart from the gender-specific words in Spanish, where those ending in "o" are male and those ending in "a" are female. In plural uses, words such as Latinos are inclusive of both genders.
To many of its users, Latinx includes people who identify outside of the gender binary, such as transgender people or those who are gender-fluid. It also is seen as a "decolonizing" term, de-emphasizing the Spanish colonial rule of Latin America in the word "Hispanic."
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They are getting smart - if you accept the language and jargon of the Left, you become their intellectual prison byatch.
I think I’ve heard about that, was the poor kid Canadian?
No native Spanish speaker would *ever* come up with something as stupid as Latinx. Every noun in Spanish is gendered. If you “de-gender” Spanish, you ruin it.
But, but, but... white liberal elite Marxists/progressives love the term.
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