Commentary
When Republican candidate Mayra Flores, an immigrant born in Mexico, flipped a congressional seat on June 14 in a part of South Texas that had been a Democratic Party stronghold for generations, pundits were calling the election a referendum on the word “Latinx,” progressives’ new favorite moniker for people of Latin-American descent.
One Twitter wit waxed sarcastic: “But her opponent [Democrat Dan Sanchez, far behind at 43 percent] won the Latinx vote.”
It’s a well-known fact that the neologism “Latinx,” coined in the mid-2000s and nearly universally adopted by academics and the mainstream media because it sounds fashionably “nonbinary,” in contrast to the highly gendered “Latino” and “Latina,” is nearly universally hated by Latinos and Latinas themselves. A 2021 poll showed that only 2 percent of people of Hispanic descent preferred to be called “Latinx,” and 40 percent found the word downright offensive. Even among 18 to 34-year-olds, the millennials and Zoomers most likely to have been brainwashed by their colleges and the woke media, only 4 percent call themselves “Latinx.”…
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