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  I guess I wouldn’t know as I don’t know anyone in that age range. Do you think it’s becoming akin to the youth these days using their pronouns more?
context: Im sure now that this has been taken care of getting Arkansas' education system out of the gutter will be her next priority. >
  
  Sigh…I’m 40 years old with 2 kids and have been taking 2 classes per term for 7 years now year round without stopping to become a high school history teacher. I unfortunately live in AR. I graduate in June and will be moving out of state to find a job. I just can’t stay under this as much as I feel like the state needs teachers who will fight this ignorance. But I have to think about how I want my kids raised and AR education is not it. These asshats  act like they own words and they don’t. But in a weird way they do. We have to fight this like the culture war that it is. But AR is ground semi zero for this hateful, uneducated intolerance >
  
  Please don’t go to Florida!  I just left with my 11- and 8- year olds for the same mess in the school. >
  
  Never!! Literally the last state I’d ever go to. I don’t even travel to Florida cause well…Fuck Florida >
  
  Fuck Florida. >
  
  Was Latinx actually on the government documents, or is this one of those "the problem doesn't exist but we're fixing it because we're desperate to look like we're fighting the woke" things? >
  
  I actually just filled out a government form with Latinx as an identifier. 
  Aside from that I doubt its on anything. >
  
  In Arkansas? >
  
  No sorry not specifically in Arkansas I cant speak to that. It was just the first time I had seen it ever on like an official document, I was surprised to see it. >
  
  My Latino friend thought it was pronounced Lahtinks and it was the best thing ever. he hates the term, and then hated it more when I told him how to say it properly. >
  
  I actually thought the same thing and for some reason Latin X is like twice as bad as Latinks to me >
  
  It really is :) I ended up getting my friend a shot and kept laughing and he just got more annoyed!
  Seriously, I'm on the left, but we gotta take an L on this one. It's a dumb term and will never catch on. >
  
  One suggestion for replacing Latinx with another, more pleasant-sounding gender-neutral term was 'Latine' pronouned lah-teen. I too read Latinx as 'lah-tinks' which rhymes with sinks, inks, and stinks. Were most people of Latin descent really clamoring to replace 'Latino' or 'Latina'? Some have suggested that the term was pushed more by white academics than the Latin community itself. >
  
  Genuinely curious... Why does it not work to just use 'Latin'? >
  
  Good point. 'Latin' would be another alternative for a more euphonous and less contentious gender-neutral term. >
  
  Great news!  That must mean she has solved Arkansas' other big problems if she is attending to trivia like this, right?
  The five states with the highest poverty rates are:
  
  Mississippi - 19.6%
  Louisiana - 19.0%
  New Mexico - 18.2%
  Kentucky - 16.3%
  Arkansas - 16.2%
  
  Arkansas is 48th out of the 50 states for infant mortality.   I guess they thank god for Louisiana and Mississippi for keeping them from the bottom.
  I could probably go on, but you get the idea. >
  
  Wait that was just getting good. Please do go on🤣 >
  
  Wow, somehow I had actually missed that people were crazy enough to elect her to public office.  The sheer number of things we've seen this woman confidently lie about is overwhelming.  Great choice, Arkansas. Sure it'll work out just fine.
  That being said, "Latinx" was always dumb. I don't think I've ever met someone who chose to identify that way. >
  
  The majority of Latinos don't seem to like it, but it wasn't coined by "woke white liberals", it was coined by gender queer Latinos looking for a more inclusive term. Conservatives have gotten a lot of traction out of the incorrect narrative. One of the few winning (outside the GOP base) culture war issues they've run on. >
  
  "Latinx" is easy to attack because it's just awkward to say. Like, what's the plural? Latinxes? >
  
  Well, if you want to go Greek with it, I think it'd be Latinces. >
  
  Or Latinges. >
  
  Balls, it's been too long and I really don't remember (if I ever knew it in the first place, that is), but isn't ~ges the Latin plural rather than the Greek?
  On the other hand, I do prefer Latinges: there's something rather delightful about its sound. >
  
  Beats me. I just looked up sphinx and the plural can be sphinxes or sphinges. >
  
  Ha! I love, "Sphinges" I am so going to use, "one sphinx, two sphinges," at some point. It's bloody marvellous.
  However, as Pratchett educated us, we all know it's one Spink, two Spinks. >
  
  I see she is spending time on the important things that will improve the lives of the citizens in Arkansas. /s >
  
  Day of the Uvalde shooting and her victory speech after winning the primary, she decides to turn the school shooting into talk of banning abortion:
  “I can assure you that in my administration, that’s exactly what we will do. We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they’re as safe as they are in the classroom, the workplace, the nursing home, because every stage of life has value.” 
  Two favorite targets of mass shooters? Classrooms and workplaces. >
  
  As safe as they are in the classroom may be good news for pro-choice people >
  
  
  As safe as they are in the classroom may be good news 
  
  Satire.
  
  for pro-choice people
  
  Culture War Attack. >
  
  By God she did, she fixed the 1, only, singular thing wrong with Arkansas... >
  
  Yea she should focus on gas stoves. >
  
  Pretty sure fossil fuel emissions are kind of a big fucking deal >
  
  Pretty sure they are claiming to ban for medical reasons. >
  
  I also think increased rates of respiratory diseases are a pretty valid reason >
  
  So you are against Marijuana legalization?  The weed industry causes way more fossil fuel emissions than gas stoves and health risks are more significant.  Propane torches used for dabs should also be banned correct? >
  
  
  So you are against Marijuana legalization?
  
  Nope >
  
  Of course not and neither am I. >
  
  Haven't Latino people generally made it clear they don't want to use "Latinx" anyways? I appreciate that desire to be more inclusive but I feel like the only people pushing that were virtue signaling white people. lol >
  
  Because you'd be correct.
  But that's not important here.  If a republican says it, it's bad. >
  
  Teaching Arkansas how to read: Tired
  Banning Arkansas from using words: Wired >
  
  Arkansas picked her for her name only I suspect. She did nothing while in Washington to prove she deserves this job. Not sure why but it seems many in the USA care less about qualifications until it is time to complain >
  
  Ummm.. they picked her because the letter following her last name on the ballot.
  You made your bed, Arkansas.  Enjoy >
  
  Yeah….. because that’s a top priority to fix the shit that Arkansas has become…. >
  
  Surely this will help everyone in Arkansas! >
  
  That will save Arkansas for sure! >
  
  Fun fact that I learned back in my high school Spanish class: although it’s not super common anymore, the Spanish language has a gender-neutral form of Latino/a; where Latino is masculine and Latina is feminine, the gender-neutral form is Latine >
  
  Latine and Latinx are both neologisms, but Latine was invented in South America while Latinx was invented in Puerto Rico. Latinx is really only used in the US which makes people mistakenly think that white English speakers invented it. >
  
  In English, wouldn’t the word just be Latin? As in, definitionally, relating to the countries or peoples using languages, especially Spanish, that developed from Latin. >
  
  Latin American >
  
  Arkansas seems to have all sorts of problems that states like California don’t. Why was Arkansas so hooked on this clunky term? >
  
  The GQP Platform: “We’re fixing all the problems that didn’t exist but we assured you they existed so we could scare you into voting for us!” >
  
  I mean... it was foolish how many people tried to force it as a general thing since it was created and used by only Puerto Ricans but a bunch of people treat latin american groups as indistinguishable from eachother, but this is dumber >
  
  “Ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles,” Sanders’ executive order states. “The government has a responsibility to respect its citizens and use ethnically appropriate language, particularly when referring to ethnic minorities.” >
  
  They're so.... Fragile   out there. >
  
  She's not even part of our group. Is she going to tell us no one can say black? >
  
  FUCK NEW YORK POST
  We need to stop rewarding these murdoch propaganda outlets with upvotes, for a clickbait headline.  
  They still fully support every traitor GOP member, including that revolting ratbag. >
  
  There must not be a lot of work to do in Arkansas politics. >
  
  Daughter of the preacher - how thoughtful and caring. >
  
  Mega Man X can't be latin? >
  
  Mega Man X is a robot built in Colorado by Dr. Thomas Light, whose surname is English in origin, but the character lacks that much background detail to rule it out. >
  
  Good thing the GOP is focused on top priorities. Tell me, where does Arkansas rank in education, employment, housing, etc? >
  
  "All show and no go" right out of the gate.  I'm sure there are bigger more pressing issues.  Typical republican. >
  
  Looks like doughnuts are def not banned. >
  
  Thank God, as a MexAm I’ve never understood LatinX. Course I understand how that could be a pressing concern in Arkansas and its 8% Latino/Hispanic population. With that taken care of they can get down to other Culture War issues, and avoid actually getting anything done. >
  
  Party of small government… >
  
  Why is this liar a governor? >
  
  That seems like a high priority for a state with one of the lowest per capita incomes and life expectancy in the union. >
  
  Oh eww I forgot she's Gov, on what qualifications? Being a lying trash person? >
  
  That was in the job description, yes. Also, "Must waste time on owning woke libs." >
  
  Governor?
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  What the fuck are you doing America? >
  
  We’ve been fucked. >
  
  Wow! The Republicans are really rolling up their sleeves to work on improving the lives of the American people. >
  
  What a silly and useless politician >
  
  Huckabee family values...  Corrupt to the core. >
  
  Can we be honest with ourselves for a second? Does anyone you know that's from latin countries use the term Latinx? I know I don't and the majority of people from there hate the term Latinx. 
  Let's not pretend like latinx is a good term. >
  
  This is to slight the lgbt community. Some Young Latins do use it. As a gay Latin man in his 50s I don’t care for it myself but plenty of young lgbt folks do.