This is yet another example of bearers of "oppressed" identities going off-script. Like Black people who, when polled, reject by large margins idiocies like defunding the police.
And it is not even close. A poll by Politico found only 2 percent of Hispanics favour Latinx, with 68 going for Hispanic and 21 for the gendered forms Latino or Latina.
More generally, it is becoming ever clearer that most Hispanic people cannot stand this woke drivel. In the recent elections in Virginia for the governor and other positions, the Republicans unexpectedly swept the board after a campaign that gave prominence to Critical Race Theory in schools, winning the Hispanic vote by nine percent (Biden won it by 20 percent in 2020).
It looks like the Democrats hope that demographic change will guarantee them long-term electoral success may be ill-founded.
“Latinx” may end up being a woke experiment that failed, showing the vast gap between the identity-politics-obsessed progressives earnestly talking to one another in seminar rooms and on social media and the Hispanics in whose name they presume to speak.
“Latinx” is a project cut from the same cloth as the endless extension of LGBTQ, which, as of this writing, is now more properly and comprehensively rendered as LGBTQQIP2SAA.
The alleged problem that “Latinx” was invented to fix is that is Spanish has gendered nouns. This means that using the male “Latino” as an adjective to describe men and women of Latin American ancestry, let alone transgender and nonbinary people, is supposedly exclusionary, hateful, and downright dangerous. As a handbook on the terminology by a Princeton scholar explains, “to default to the masculine gender promotes interpersonal violence against women and nonbinary individuals.”
“Latinx” rose from the ashes of its predecessor neologism “Latin@,” an attempted amalgamation of the -o at the end of the Latino and the -a at the end of “Latina.” But no one knew how to pronounce the word. It was deemed insufficiently woke because the -o was supposedly graphically dominating the -a. (Yes, this is how some people think.) And it caused confusion on social media where the @ sign is used to tag someone.
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Out in the real world, “Latinx” polls even more poorly than Joe Biden does. A Politico poll found that only 2 percent of Hispanics prefer the term, while 68 percent opt for “Hispanic” and 21 percent favor “Latino” or “Latina.” The term is considered offensive to 40 percent of respondents, and 30 percent said that they are less likely to support a politician or group using it.