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  Banning words, not at all fascist.
context: Wait, she won an election? She could barely handle being a press secretary. lol What the hell? >
  
  I was completely caught off guard seeing this. The system really is flawed if she is allowed success after her previous performance. >
  
  The sad thing is that she beat out an extraordinarily accomplished person who studied nuclear engineering at MIT and got a PHD in urban planning. Arkansas had a chance to elect a progressive leader but the masses chose a back-water troglodyte. >
  
  Speaks loads about Arkansas’ education system. >
  
  Yeah, we ain’t the best, but not the worst either :) >
  
  Is the state motto still " we ar better'n Kansas" ? >
  
  Thank god for Mississippi >
  
  Mississippi " furst at last" >
  
  If "Latine" was the term du jour, she'd ban that instead. Just virtue signaling for the culture war right. >
  
  "You changed it TO Latrine?!?"
  (Yes I'm aware of the etymology up there, silly joke) >
  
  Used to be shithoux. >
  
  That’s a good change!…👌🏽.. a good change… >
  
  I bet the only time that 'Latinx' was used in an official document was this law. >
  
  See single handedly saved Arkansas >
  
  Why does GOP always legislate stupid crap. Who cares? Feed the hungry, fix the roads, cut down on political grift. . >
  
  It’s red meat to their dumb racist base. >
  
  “Dur, she’s so cool! She doesn’t take none of this critical race theory from nobody cuz she a fighter.”
  “I’m sure any day now she’s gonna help hardworking folks like me with rising prices and housing costs. Just has to do other stuff first. Any day now…” >
  
  Nailed it >
  
  Really “focusing” on the difficult work, good job fudge fingers. >
  
  I know it's not important,  but I do actually agree Latinx should be banned.
  Edit: I'm south American guys, it's pretty offensive. >
  
  Apologies for being ignorant, but why is the term offensive to Latino people?  Is it a grammatical thing because of how Spanish words are masculine/feminine?  Or is it something else? >
  
  I wouldn’t say offensive as much as blatantly ignorant.
  Latino is both a male AND a gender-neutral term, so when people try and use Latinx, for many people here it feels.. patronizing? Ignorant? I don’t have a great word for it but yeah. >
  
  The argument (in French and doubtlessly the other romance languages) is that it is sexist that the masculine is the default. That said, it does seem to largely be used by white people and rejected by Latinos (though I do have one anecdotal exception). >
  
  It seems individual preference among the Latinos I know. I work in a non-profit that both serves and is staffed by predominantly first-and-second generation Central and South American immigrants. About half use Latinx in their personal correspondence. In org materials it's usually written as "Latino/a".
  They ALL hate Latin@ though! >
  
  I thought Latiné sounded like the best way to go. It's gender neutral without looking like a typo. >
  
  Props to her stylist for dressing her like Dolores Umbridge. >
  
  Really on top of the most pressing issues in Arkansas. >
  
  It's Arkansas, not Yurkansas >
  
  UterUS, not uterYOU >
  
  Whoa, that's huge. I'm sure this will really propel Arkansas' economy. >
  
  And chip away at infant mortality >
  
  Sarah Huckabee Sanders is what happens when a religious zealot fucks a bison. >
  
  Aw man, don’t insult the bison like that! Theyre already having a hard time as it is, without Sanders coming to fuck them. >
  
  anyway it was a goat >
  
  Culture war BS is all the Republicans know how to do. >
  
  Ah, freedom! >
  
  Few things baffle me more than a solid 30-40% of this nation just not giving a single fuck that their political leaders literally do nothing to make their lives better. Just amazing shit there. >
  
  "Lazy eye" is still legal. >
  
  Lazy?! That eye wanders enough to have Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder team up on its biopic. >
  
  At least she’s focusing on the important things. >
  
  From the party of "free speech". >
  
  She banned telling the truth about American Slavery too. >
  
  Actually, I don’t know if Latinos mind this. >
  
  You're right. They don't... In fact the term Latinx drives my Latina wife crazy. The correct term is 'Latinos' (which is gender neutral when used in plural form). Singular form would be Latina (female) or Latino (male). >
  
  Yeah I dislike SHS but latinx is a pox, and that's coming from a nonbinary white person. Like.....don't break the grammar of a language that actually makes sense. >
  
  I'm almost afraid to ask at this point but how do you actually pronounce latinx?  It's not a word I've ever had to vocalize.  Is it la-tinks or latin-ex?  Something else? >
  
  Rhymes with kleenex. >
  
  Huh yeah I could see why actual Latinos wouldn't like that.  Very awkward to say and sounds like a cleaning product.  Or maybe some kind of medicine for chronic constipation >
  
  Im latino and the only people I mostly see use this are white people. The only latina I ever seen use that term was AOC. >
  
  A Latinx person used it on drag race the other day. >
  
  That definitely helped someone pay their rent >
  
  Gah imagine being that miserable, that that’s the very first thing on your to do list. >
  
  This is exactly why Katie Hobbs (D) is governor of Arizona and not Kari Lake. Hobbs addressed homelessness, LGBT+ discrimination, and education reform her first days in office rather than focusing on performative politics. >
  
  Latinos dislike this term. So she's doing them a favor. It's 'Latinos'. So thanks Sarah! Though I know pleasing the Latino population wasn't your intention.  SMH >
  
  Also AFAIK most non-binary or genderqueer folks prefer Latine, and Latinx was supposed to be a visual protest (crossing out the o or a) not a new word. >
  
  It's far easier to just ask than to make blanket assumptions about who likes what. The nice thing is people can self-identify and we can respect it. >
  
  This is the most right wing thing I’ll ever remotely agree with.
  Latinx is just dumb since most Hispanic people don’t even like it. >
  
  That's why she did it. To appeal to you. >
  
  Which, good move.
  It isn’t going to make me vote Republican. But the Dems should be keeping these things in mind.
  Be normal enough. That’s what won Biden the election. >
  
  
  Be normal enough.
  
  truly inspirational riveting stuff, lol >
  
  Ah, yes.  The anti-censorship, small government party! >
  
  Priorities. >
  
  She did the super important stuff first so she can coast the rest of her term.  She can whip out the ban and slap people around with it. Pure Huckabee genius. I expected nothing more. >
  
  Arkansas was using a “woke” term that liberal states were not? That’s weird. Or maybe it’s a fake problem, easy to remedy, because it’s a fake problem. >
  
  For my first day in office, I want to make the following changes that every Arkansinian wants.  ~~Affordable health care, childcare, school lunch funding, homelessness, infrastructure, road repair,~~  You will now be banned from using the term Latinx, and face whatever penalty I deem appropriate. >
  
  Wow…this is a great step forward in solving the problems that Arkansas has. >
  
  Big Republican government tells you what words you can and can't use.
  The first amendment says otherwise. >
  
  Let’s now ask her why she won’t ban the N word >
  
  The 1 thing that I agree with. >
  
  To be fair i have heard that this term was rather questionable at best >
  
  So right to the big, important stuff. >
  
  She’s a detestable human being and this is an obvious piece of red meat thrown to her rabid base, but it’s also true that people need to stop trying to make Latinx a thing when most Latinos can’t stand the term >
  
  And they say Republicans can’t govern! >
  
  Fix your roads before you worry about shit like "Latinx."  Every time I have to drive the backroads in Arkansas for my job I feel like I'm riding a horse. >
  
  Wait.. She is a governer now? 🤔 >
  
  Following in daddy's footsteps as governor of Arkansas. >
  
  /r/accidentallyleftwing - Latinx was a term developed in (mainly white) academia, as a way to include non-binary people, since "Latino" is gendered male. The general public is pushing back and using Latino or Latine. >
  
  Freedom of Speech Freedom of Speech
  I actually think it's a stupid term that the latino community (from what I heard) doesn't support.  But I also think banning it is stupid. >
  
  She is banning it from government use in official documents. This is not a free speech issue. >
  
  What a completely pointless action from a completely inept person.
  This didn’t need a ban. The term isn’t agreed upon among those it’s supposed to apply to. Who the fuck is benefitting from this ban aside from bigots who need to kill anything they consider “woke”? >
  
  Exactly. Everyone saying it's not a popular term is missing the point. She didn't do it to help the Hispanic community. >
  
  Another Republican tackling the pressing issues. /s >
  
  So brave! >
  
  Getting started on the important stuff >
  
  This rock faced woman is an outright liar and a cancer to our goverent.
  But “Latinx” is a ridiculous term. I say this as a PR professional well versed in PC culture and fluent in Spanish.
  It implies that an “x” should be used instead of an “a” or an “o” when using a gendered word in Spanish. But almost all words in Spanish are gendered. 
  Perhaps it’s appropriate to use “Latinx” when referring to a non-binary Latin American directly. 
  But that would imply that every adjective (and pronouns) used to describe them need to have x’s. Like “she is tall”. 
  “ella es alta”
  When talking about a non binary person do they expect that phrase to be “ellx es altx”??? How do you pronounce that in Spanish? ey ex es alt ex? 
  “Latinx” was clearly thought up by people who do not speak Spanish. Probably the children of immigrants who never learned Spanish. Or hell, wouldn’t be surprised if it was white American non-binary people who thought that up.
  Also, Latinos REALLY don’t seem to like the phrase “Latinx”. They see it as a patronizing phrase used by dopey white people. >
  
  
  It implies that an “x” should be used instead of an “a” or an “o” when using a gendered word in Spanish. But almost all words in Spanish are gendered.
  
  Actually the people who invented/advocated it said it could be pronounced however you feel like and its use could be optional. >
  
  LatinX is a gringo term that makes no sense in Spanish. It's insulting >
  
  I’m so glad that she’s addressing the needs of her constituents to be a racist asshole. >
  
  Repubs are so so against cancel culture 😆