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Nobody in Miami Says ‘Latinx’ When I first saw the word, I thought it must be a typo.
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/8/23 | Joseph Contreras

Posted on 02/08/2023 4:54:20 PM PST by MAGA2017

Five Latino members of the Connecticut Legislature co-sponsored a bill last month to ban the word “Latinx” from all state documents. As lawmaker Geraldo Reyes Jr. put it recently, “We don’t really use it, and we find it very offensive.” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also prohibited official use of the term, which the Associated Press characterizes as a “gender-neutral” alternative to Latino.

The AP describes Ms. Sanders as “tapping into a debate that’s divided Hispanics along generational lines,” but I‘ve seen no evidence of such a debate here in predominantly Latino Miami-Dade County. Nobody uses Latinx here either.

The first time I ever encountered the word on the printed page, I thought it was a typo. I was in Manhattan on some personal business in late summer 2019, picked up the New York Times, and found my eye drawn to a Critic’s Notebook column in the arts section. Copy-editing standards are slipping, I thought to myself—but it wasn’t long before I noticed the term again.

Everything about the word repelled me as a presumably deliberate indictment of the Spanish language’s liberal use of gender in its nouns. So I decided to look into the etymology of Latinx.

First seen online in 2004, according to Google Trends, Latinx made its academic literature debut circa 2013 in Puerto Rican psychology periodicals. It was a bid “to escape the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language,” Josh Logue wrote in 2015 in the online magazine Inside Higher Ed. It gained traction around the time of the June 2016 mass shooting during “Latin night” at the Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub Pulse, which killed 49 people. An article published in the Iowa State Daily newspaper that year noted that “the term Latinx has been sweeping across college campuses in the nation.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gender; latinx; miami

1 posted on 02/08/2023 4:54:20 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

more gibberish


2 posted on 02/08/2023 4:55:34 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: MAGA2017

3 posted on 02/08/2023 4:55:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MAGA2017

Latin, short for Latin-American, is better for two big reasons. It’s English, and there’s none of this gender crap associated with it.


4 posted on 02/08/2023 5:09:18 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: MAGA2017

Pronounced lah-tinks, or Latin-eks? I still don’t know.


5 posted on 02/08/2023 5:19:17 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: MAGA2017

It‘s from mathematics, where X is used to represent a variable.


6 posted on 02/08/2023 5:24:49 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: MAGA2017

made up by middle age white lesbians...


7 posted on 02/08/2023 5:47:09 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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How about LatinXX and LatinXY?


8 posted on 02/08/2023 6:12:20 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MAGA2017

I’ll bet they say it a lot at the University of Miami…


9 posted on 02/08/2023 6:14:50 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: MAGA2017

LatinX is supposedly a gender neutral term made up by the same bunch of lefty virtue signalers who came up with the non-binary/they/them pronoun bullchit. The only problem is they didn’t actually check with any Hispanic people who would have told them that it’s an idiotic term that no Spanish speaker would ever use.


10 posted on 02/08/2023 6:17:27 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: heartwood

I intentionally mispronounce it as “luh-tinks” so as to be as offensive as possible.


11 posted on 02/08/2023 10:44:50 PM PST by Jim Hill
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To: MAGA2017

Maybe it should be Latink or Latwink?


12 posted on 02/09/2023 2:36:56 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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Sounds like an dermatological ointment.


13 posted on 02/09/2023 3:47:30 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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