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  The nepo baby label seems to irk celebrities, maybe it's time to give these people the same treatment.
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 😆 >
  
  Banning words, not at all fascist. >
  
  
  It is one of the first, if not the first, executive order of its kind, Tabitha Bonilla, an associate professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University, told NBC News.
  
  Not really sure that "first to stoop this low" is the kind of thing Arkansas voters were hoping for out of their governor... >
  
  How would they expect anoything other than hatred and lies from that woman? >
  
  Latinos don't like and don't use the term. >
  
  It’s a weird relationship. As a pretty far left Latino who grew up in Latin America. I want them to feel part of “us” but Latino in English in and of itself is gender neutral. At the end of the day if someone asks me to call them that I don’t care and I’ll do it but I’m not sure it’s needed. 
  Like it’s “Latino America” when you use the collective grouping. It’s not inherently a gender related term. 
  It feels like we’re solving a problem in a more complicated way than needed be but again. If someone requests that term I’ll honor it cause ultimately I don’t care it’s not anymore an inconvenience than remembering someone’s name. >
  
  Can a ban on Latinx people be far behind? >
  
  Honestly, as a Latino, I mostly only see gringos use this term. >
  
  Surely you mean “Gringx”? 
  /s >
  
  Because... Freedom of Speech! >
  
  I see a lot of comments about it isnt popular among amongst Latinos which means it wasn't being embraced anyhow and like the metric system probably would have never stuck. It free kindling to stoke the fire of her base. >
  
  lmao
  latinos dont even care about that term >
  
  Ugh, bad looking Jackie O imitation.  Must be asking Melania for fashion advice. >
  
  An intellectual giant she is not!! >
  
  So Brave, So important. >
  
  Lo0k... Cut the girl s0me slack... She's new at the j0b. >
  
  She should ban sugar from her diet instead >
  
  How can she ban a word? By stuffing it under one of her chins? >
  
  Probably the only decent thing she has done in her entire life (Latino here) >
  
  White guy here. I’ve always felt “Latinx” is somehow even more insulting because it was created by white people to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. It erases everyone’s identity while not helping anyone. >
  
  It wasn't coined by white people. It was coined by nonbinary Hispanic people. >
  
  This is like Matt Gaetz wanting C-SPAN cameras back to the house floor. Occasionally one of these idiots gets something right. Broke clock. >
  
  At the end of the day, if a word describing a race is disliked and unused by the vast majoritiy of a race - the government probably shouldn't be using it. This was an easy slam-dunk win in the culture wars that the left handed to the right. When half the typical comments attacking the right here have to concede that she's kinda right at the same time - you've lost this battle. Admit it, learn from it, do better. >
  
  An entire state about to suffer from intense self flagellation is never pretty. >
  
  Is this the same Sarah Huckabee Sanders who lied to the FBI, said she didn’t lie to the FBI, then admitted about lying to the FBI but didn’t admit to lie about lying? >
  
  Opposing the use of such terms is done by reactionary people who do not understand the development of semantics and concise language to convey concepts accurately. Spanish suffers from a binary gender grammar system that limits nouns to the masculine or feminine, and lacks effective means to denote gender neutrality. >
  
  Population of Arkansas: 3 million
  Arkansas Hispanic population of who are adults:  160,000
  Number of Hispanic population who vote for GOP who we could potentially piss off: 80,000
  Number of those who will still vote for us: 50,000
  Number of GOP voting Hispanic population left that might not vote for us but will probably forget about this in 4 years:  30,000
  GOOD NEWS everyone- we can attack Latinx in a completely racist way to fire up our base and it won't cost us votes.  I'll issue a hateful statement today-  SHS. >
  
  I’ll be honest, never heard the term Latinx before. >
  
  Because free speech, right? >
  
  Wrong. >
  
  Party of Small Government my ass. Remember how they spent years claim Democrats were going to ban people saying Merry Christmas. GOP is about projection, because they assume the other side is just as hateful, stupid, controlling and power hungry as themselves >
  
  Does she break down and cry if you use the term? >
  
  America seems to loves compel freedom while simultaneously encouraging the freedom to censor. It's quite paradoxical. >
  
  She's like 100 republican memes behind here >
  
  Another “banner” day for the gqp. >
  
  How do republicans always know how to solve the most pressing issues so swiftly and effectively? >
  
  Ah yes, the party of freedom >
  
  And here I was, forgetting that this loathsome fuck existed only to be disappointed at discovering her existence a second time. >
  
  On “They think we’re stupid”: >
  
  O_o tackling the hard topics right out of the gate. /s >
  
  Fear >
  
  Then later, will ask why aren't we getting the Latin votes? >
  
  Because it was such a burning problem because of its rampant use in Alabama law. >
  
  Banning words seems like a great use of government for fuck fuck fuckety fucks sake’s fuck. >
  
  She trying to be DeSantis 2.0 >
  
  here comes stupid. ugh. >
  
  LòÓk >
  
  They are drunk with power! >
  
  It’s a stupid word >
  
  No cafesito for you! >
  
  She kept huckabee just not to be connected to Bernie Sanders. >
  
  She kept Huckabee so that Arkansas voters would know she was Mike’s daughter. >
  
  Finally republicans getting stuff done 💪 >
  
  Whats wrong with these losers. >
  
  arkansas is a truly fucked up place to have elected this lying sack of moldy shit governor >
  
  Ugh, forgot this was a thing. Gov. Huckabee 2.0. Yikes. >
  
  Empty actions. The Republicans are fighting 2020 3 years later >
  
  Lazy eyed cow woman >
  
  Concentration camps for non-Christians? Could be next. You folks in Arkansas are idiots. >
  
  Words are hard. Apparently ones she can’t figure out she just bans. >
  
  Getting to the real problems I see.🙄 >
  
  Off to a great start. Arkansas will be in the top 5 in education by summer. /s >
  
  Oh Arkansas, you so crazy >
  
  Thanks. That’s what’s going to help people pay their bills. >
  
  I'm surprised she didn't ban the word Duggar. Least we forget her father defended a pedophile. >
  
  Next up:  non whites may not be visible in the state Capitol. >
  
  How do these fascists continue to get away with this shit in the party that claims to be for “freedom”. >
  
  Because freedom is only for white Christians. >
  
  Ahh the party of “free speech” banning words and education. Shocker >
  
  Republicans hate free speech >
  
  Lol. More GOP garbage. Doing everything they can to drive America into the ground all while blaming Democrats. >
  
  Holy shit!! She got elected Governor?! >
  
  I ban HuckaSans from speaking. 
  There, two bans that won’t be followed. >
  
  Ban words, ban books, ban theories.  Party of freedom. >
  
  Super free speech, this one. >
  
  Surprised she didnt ban the word, Suckabee, too. >
  
  She's such a nice, understanding, all inclusive person. >
  
  Way to govern. I’m sure that will improve a lot of lives. >
  
  Finally! That shits annoying 🙄 just say the right term, “Latin” . >
  
  Party of freedom hard at work >
  
  This is all they have now. Endlessly feeding the rage and propaganda machine to provide cover for their policies that only benefit the ultra wealthy. But murica and all that other stupid shit, right? >
  
  How the hell does a governor have the power to ban a term for something? >
  
  The party of free speech. >
  
  Next up, ban the term "fat ass." >
  
  For a party that popularized the term "virtue signaling," they sure do a lot of it. >
  
  Don’t say: 
  latinx
  gay
  the truth 
  climate change 
  accountability 
  healthcare
  oversight
  insurrection 
  fair tax 
  and… well you get the point. >
  
  As a Liberal Hispanic, I don’t mind. This is one thing I never agreed with and was forced into our culture. >
  
  “Bans term” = “censored” >
  
  She won?? Wasnt she the face of the white house for 2 years during trumps presidency? >
  
  Free speech ? >
  
  Like banned for the whole state? I say we all get together and stand on the streets chanting it. >
  
  Let’s start Hispanic, Herspanic, and Xspanic. Just to ruffle feathers >
  
  Or you could… ya know… just not say it. >
  
  she looks like shes gonna explode if she doesn’t say the n word every 4 hours >
  
  Bret Favre looking at homes in Arkansas… >
  
  Wow, she's really got her priorities straight. /s >
  
  I'm pretty sure there are a lot of Latin people that agree with this lol >
  
  Wow solving the big issues huh? >
  
  What a fat piece of shit. >
  
  4% of voters in Arkansas are Hispanic and 3/4 of them have never even heard of the term “Latinx”.  Bold executive order to ban a word that 1% of the affected population has even heard of. >
  
  Nepotism baby. >
  
  Sounds like big government to me. One should be proud of such important priorities. >
  
  She did it, she fixed Arkansas. >
  
  Who in the F voted for this lady!?!! >
  
  What a hill to die on. >
  
  That’s literally a day 1 First Amendment violation. The government can’t directly interfere with free speech >
  
  So brave... >
  
  She's a horrible person, so it's hard to like anything she does
  Hispanics overwhelmingly hate the term "Latinx", so you're going to have a hard time getting anyone to be upset about her action, other than that she's a horrible person >
  
  Based. >
  
  I mean, it is pretty much the dumbest term ever that no one ever asked for. I credit the term for the Republicans making huge gains with Latinos >
  
  Lmfao, accidentally helping the people she meant to hurt, classic.  Kinda r/AccidentalAlly >
  
  Arkansas... >
  
  Isn't this a white people craated  term anyway that Latinos don't like? >
  
  Yes and yes. >
  
  seems like only white people say latinx. is the latin community even on board with latinx? >
  
  I mean, she’s an irredeemable POS but I’ve never meat a Latino that liked or used Latinx so whatever. >
  
  Can we go with Latin as a fair, non-gendered phrase for folks of Latino and Latina heritage? >
  
  Latinos take note. >
  
  well everybody hates Latinx anyway >
  
  Are Quebecois and Cajuns Latinx? French is a Romance language. Always been curious about this. >
  
  It is a dumb word but so is trying to ban it >
  
  Well…. For the first time I agree with this woman who today I realized was the Gov of Arkansas …. Didn’t even know she was on the ballot >
  
  Setting aside that this is obviously just to pander to her base - I never understood why people chose the weird and (initially) confusing "latinx" over just...  "latin" >
  
  Why is she banning English words? >
  
  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 :) >
  
  You hear that Mississippi? >
  
  Louisiana has entered the chat >
  
  Indiana is breathing heavily against the window, licks it a little. >
  
  Pennsylvania laffed weigh to hard at dis >
  
  I bet the only time that 'Latinx' was used in an official document was this law. >
  
  She single handedly saved Arkansas >
  
  Praise the Lord! >
  
  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 >
  
  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. >
  
  "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ, 1960 >
  
  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 have a mole?!? >
  
  Props to her stylist for dressing her like Dolores Umbridge. >
  
  Please don't play that evil giggle. >
  
  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. >
  
  We shouldn't "ban" words (what would that even look like?),  but we should make fun of people who use the stupid ones. >
  
  How many people are really still using that term?  All the progressives I know or see online have got the memo and have stopped using it. >
  
  I'm not saying it's never been used, but I've never seen it used in any context than people talking about how stupid it is. It seems like one of those things that just got blown massively out of proportion. >
  
  I'm transgender and boy howdy are we still hearing about that one blond idiot who lost her shit and got violent at GameStop when she was misgendered. >
  
  Really on top of the most pressing issues in Arkansas. >
  
  It's Arkansas, not Yurkansas >
  
  UterUS, not uterYOU >
  
  Ah, freedom! >
  
  That definitely helped someone pay their rent >
  
  Whoa, that's huge. I'm sure this will really propel Arkansas' economy. >
  
  And chip away at infant mortality >
  
  Cool so her first day on the job and she’s restricting free speech by banning words. >
  
  Culture war BS is all the Republicans know how to do. >
  
  Wow solving the big issues huh? >
  
  lol as a latino I hate the term latinx and the people who use it but banning it is clown shit >
  
  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 >
  
  For a party that popularized the term "virtue signaling," they sure do a lot of it. >
  
  Wait, what the actual fuck, she is a governor?  Arkansas you stupid pieces of shit. >
  
  A lot of us tried. Unfortunately the rest of us are stupid pieces of shit >
  
  How did she go from being a press secretary to a governor in less than 5 years……? >
  
  she looks like shes gonna explode if she doesn’t say the n word every 4 hours >
  
  4x an hour, minimum. >
  
  It really pisses me off someone can lie every single day, to the whole country, and be rewarded with a governorship. 
  This woman can go to hell >
  
  They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war. >
  
  Wow…this is a great step forward in solving the problems that Arkansas has. >
  
  Nepotism baby. >
  
  As a Latino/Hispanic who cares very little about the term Latinx, I'm curious how does someone ban a word? 
  Jail time?
  Fines?
  Just not acknowledge?
  I don't want this for practical reason, but I hope it has a Streisand effect >
  
  Probably reprimand or fire the employee who used it. How are insubordination issues handled at your work? >
  
  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? >
  
  I believe it’s pronounced “Latin-X”. >
  
  Should've been an X-Men book... >
  
  I mean, listen. I think the word "latinx" is stupid, but if it gives me x-men powers I'd be all for it... >
  
  "Lazy eye" is still legal. >
  
  Lazy?! That eye wanders enough to have Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder team up on its biopic. >
  
  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. >
  
  Gah imagine being that miserable, that that’s the very first thing on your to do list. >
  
  Small government conservativism. >
  
  She and the people to whom she's pandering are complete trash. >
  
  For the freedom of speech crowd they sure like to ban words >
  
  Big Republican government tells you what words you can and can't use.
  The first amendment says otherwise. >
  
  You need to learn how to not make shitty assumptions by stopping at the headline. >
  
  Clearly, using the term “Latinx” is the biggest problem in Arkansas. Glad to see someone has their state’s priorities straight.
  Ffs >
  
  Let’s start Hispanic, Herspanic, and Xspanic. Just to ruffle feathers >
  
  At least she’s focusing on the important things. >
  
  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. >
  
  Priorities. >
  
  Freeze peach! >
  
  I guess it’s time to change it to “Latinj” >
  
  Good. Stupid af word >
  
  That’ll fix Arkansas! >
  
  "Sarah Huckabee Sanders"
  jesus...they put that troglodytic, fresh water gulper in mascara in office?
  boy, that per capita IQ of 67.3 is a real thing in Arkansas. >
  
  Thank the lord! She saved us from that word, her job has been completed! >
  
  Huh what? You can just ban a word now? Free speech? >
  
  Oh god, she banned a made up term by white people that Latin people have been begging white people to quit using for years.
  This might actually be the first time in history that the libs have been owned. 🤣
  Shame it's pretty guaranteed that the rest of the shit she does in office is going to be alt-right bullshit. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Let’s now ask her why she won’t ban the N word >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  I think it’s intentional this last election the GOP really started pushing hard to get Hispanic votes since they are ignored as a group by the dems. They have been fairly successful too, I feel like they are trying to flip them like Trump did the rust belt. Only 3% of Hispanics even like Latinx and a large percent are offended this is a way to score points with basically no effort. >
  
  Ah, yes.  The anti-censorship, small government party! >
  
  And they say Republicans can’t govern! >
  
  What a fat piece of shit. >
  
  America seems to loves compel freedom while simultaneously encouraging the freedom to censor. It's quite paradoxical. >
  
  She's like 100 republican memes behind here >
  
  Ah yes, the party of freedom >
  
  O_o tackling the hard topics right out of the gate. /s >
  
  Because it was such a burning problem because of its rampant use in Alabama law. >
  
  Ugh, forgot this was a thing. Gov. Huckabee 2.0. Yikes. >
  
  Ahh the party of “free speech” banning words and education. Shocker >
  
  Republicans hate free speech >
  
  Ban words, ban books, ban theories.  Party of freedom. >
  
  Super free speech, this one. >
  
  Surprised she didnt ban the word, Suckabee, too. >
  
  Way to govern. I’m sure that will improve a lot of lives. >
  
  Party of freedom hard at work >
  
  How the hell does a governor have the power to ban a term for something? >
  
  The party of free speech. >
  
  She won?? Wasnt she the face of the white house for 2 years during trumps presidency? >
  
  Free speech ? >
  
  Wow, she's really got her priorities straight. /s >
  
  4% of voters in Arkansas are Hispanic and 3/4 of them have never even heard of the term “Latinx”.  Bold executive order to ban a word that 1% of the affected population has even heard of. >
  
  Sounds like big government to me. One should be proud of such important priorities. >
  
  She did it, she fixed Arkansas. >
  
  So brave... >
  
  She’s creating more freedoms with this stroke of genius >
  
  Gotta start with the most important work. >
  
  My company leadership uses this term in town halls and every time they do, the anon community board goes off on how stupid and made up the term is. >
  
  This idiot probably thinks "latinx" is Mexican for "my brother beats dogs to death for fun". Because she is an idiot and her brother beats dogs to death for fun.
  P.S. Yea, I know Mexican isn't a language but you know this idiot and her dog killing brother don't. >
  
  There's Hispanics, I mean latin people in Arkansas? >
  
  Cancel culture alive and well. >
  
  Starting with the tough issues at hand, I see. >
  
  Good to know that the new governor has her priorities straight /sarcasm >
  
  what is this about banning words in a free country? 
  from european pov, do ya guys not have hate laws or smth equivalent. >
  
  How brave. And confusing. >
  
  I’m conflicted.  I think latinx is a stupid term that tries to solve for a problem no one has and I don’t know a single Hispanic person that uses the word.  On the other hand, fuck Sarah Huckabee Sanders. >
  
  I know correlation does not imply causation, but I can’t help but see an increase in the amount of stunningly bat-shit stupid things Republicans have done over the last 15 years, as a similar decrease in the use of the derogatory “R”-word.
  I know it’s wrong of me, but i have missed it so much since Trump was elected in 2016.  I just imagine a world where instead of calling it “Stupid Watergate”, John Oliver’s segment was called “‘R’-word Watergate.”
  I say all this as like 98% joke, with just a 2% kernel of truth in there. >
  
  Fuck her, fuck Arkansas, and fuck the civility rule bullshit. This shit isn’t okay and needs to be recognized. 
  I now await my ban >
  
  Hitting all the important stuff first. Now that she has taken care of the inflation problem, on to that border issue. >
  
  I always thought she was stupid. Now I have proof! >
  
  It’s so hilarious that republicans literally can’t govern so they care about this made up nonsense >
  
  This state can’t even spell its name right lol >
  
  Nepo-baby >
  
  They sure do love free speech >
  
  Hag, giant hag >
  
  Snowflake CONservatives and their woke cancel culture. >
  
  Just wait until you hear the other things Arkansas has done in just this first week!
  SHS has decided the government really needs to help charter schools expand. 
  40/29: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs new executive order on charter schools
  Because helping the rich kids learn to read is going to get us above the miserably low national average!
  The Nation's Report Card: Reading scores by State 
  Not to mention 6 other bizarre executive orders:
  •Freezing state hiring. The governor must approve of all promotions and new state employees.
  •All state rules must be sent to the governor, and they must submit two rules for repeal... for every new rule they want to add.
  •All previous executive orders are going to be examined and possibly voided by the inspector general by 90 days.
  •Expanded the commerce department's ability to investigate unemployment insurance recipients.
  •Asked the Secretary of Education to review all school curricula for any signs of CRT.
  •Banned TikTok on state networks and devices.
  40/29: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs executive orders on first day in office
  This is not to mention the state legislature shenanigans. Sen. Gary Stubblefield sponsored his bill SB43 which seems to make drag and transgender people's performances (of any kind) on the same level as lap dances. This is to attempt to "protect the children!" from drag story times. Heaven forbid they read their own kids a book to try to improve our State's piss poor reading skills!
  AR Senate: SB43
  In the House of Representatives, Republicans clearly wanted to take a page out of the Freedom Caucus's book. 47 representatives asked Speaker Matthew Shepherd to ban all democrats from committees because of "the supermajority the voters gave us."
  Former House District 13 Candidate Allison Grigsby Sweatman: A Little Drama in the #arleg
  All is not well in the natural state. We have a real bad case of MAGA fever, so much so a minister/urban planner/nuclear physicist couldn't beat a pro-life Tea-Partyer demagogue with the world's worst resume >
  
  Wow! Thank Gawd!  Cause that’s important! /s >
  
  Right???!?! Must mean all the other problems facing Arkansas are solved. >
  
  The party of "free speech" and "Why are they allowed to say it?" banned even more words? Color me shocked