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  It’s only banned from use by state agencies. Individuals and non-state entities are still free to use the term
context: she's only 40!?!? >
  
  Hate really ages you. >
  
  Maybe it's Maybeline, maybe it's lie. It's probably lies >
  
  Your comment prompted me to go watch Michelle Wolf's set again. I'm only 3 min in and I'm so glad I have lol >
  
  It's good and rightfully calls out the media for playing a part in Trump's rise and how they're seemingly playing the same game again >
  
  The dropoff in profits when they went from reporting daily if not hourly "Trump does/says something Outlandish/Unconstitutional/Illegal/Immoral/Insane... to "Democrats quietly get things done" was immense. They are making the "Biden Documents" into the biggest scandal in the history of humanity, and running with every other Far Right promoting story because they want a Republican trifecta more than anything they have ever wanted. >
  
  Trump doing something outlandish/unconstitutional/illegal/immoral/insane was the ordinary state of affairs during his presidency.
  The USA must have a really strong institutional architecture, seeing that it survived that moron/criminal/lunatic/fascist >
  
  Simple question(s)
  Was the use of latinx an issue in Arkansas or is this a dog whistle solution in search of a problem? >
  
  I don’t know any people in that community that considered it a thing >
  
  It was something that came out of people trying to be overly inclusive but ignoring the actual language and culture. I have rarely seen a Latino person use the term Latinx. >
  
  I saw the headline before the photo came up, and I thought, "BERNIE has a Latinx ban? It can't be!" 
  Carry on. It's been a long week for me already. >
  
  I was so ready to never hear that twatwaffle’s name again. >
  
  Bernie is a twatwaffle? Or Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a twatwaffle? >
  
  Sarah obviously, Sanders is still a senator. >
  
  Just making sure. Plenty of people think 2016 is somehow Bernie's fault. >
  
  Why ban it when no one uses it anyway? >
  
  Pandering to Latin people who may not like "wokeness." >
  
  Latinos hate the term Latinx. >
  
  Latinos also created the term Latinx and are the biggest proponents of it. This is mostly an internal debate within the Spanish speaking community, but conservative Spanish speakers keep pretending this is something white people are trying to force on them to avoid having the discussion. >
  
  I’m not going to try to speak for Latinos because I’m not one, but the only Latin people I’ve seen is the term Latinx are also very left leaning. I think the vast majority of Latin people don’t use it. the people I’ve seen use it the most or white people were trying to show solidarity, but just come off as pretentious. >
  
  Of course it's the left leaning Latin people that use latinx, it's an attempt to address the traditional sexism in the culture that is reinforced by the language, and of course the majority are against it, it's trying to force them to critically look at their culture and its impact on women and LGBT people within it. >
  
  Yeah, no.
  Exactly zero Latino people I know prefer it. 
  It addresses nothing more than the guilt of the people who use it: bleeding heart white people.  Those people don't need to critically look at Latin culture and the struggle of women and LGBT people within it.  That's why they choose to use this pointless placeholder for action. 
  There are gendered languages all over the world.
  Are you this pedantic in defense of Saudi straight, gay, and transgender women (Arabic)?  Indian (Hindi)?  French? German?  Russian? 
  I'm on your side, but this is a wholly useless hill to die on. >
  
  If and when people of those languages develop nongendered terms and advice for their usage, your question would be relevant. Until then, it's apples and oranges. Latinx is a real term, advocated for by real people to describe themselves. It not being the majority term doesn't detract from that.
  Nevermind the ludicrous premise in the first place that people of the same ethnicity/culture need to agree as a monolith wasn't ludicrous on its face.
  You claim to be an ally but thats some pretty rough base assumptions you are bringing to the party >
  
  Anecdotal, but in my life I find that latine is used WAY more often by actual Latino people. >
  
  Because Latine can actually be used in Spanish. Latinx makes no sense in Spanish pronunciation or grammar. Latine also works with any o/a gendered words. Like “amigo” can become “amigue” or “nosotros” can be “nosotres”. 
  Latine is actually used in Spanish media outside of the US. It’s not like it’s generally accepted yet, but it’s there. 
  Latinx is confusing in Spanish. How is it pronounced? How would you use it with other words? Is “amigxs” pronounceable? Is “nosotrxs”? It’s just weird. I can’t imagine whoever started using it thought about how it would be pronounced (it began as a word used online) and I would be surprised if Spanish was even their preferred language.
  To me, Latinx comes off as people in the US (whether Latino or not) trying to impose change on a language they don’t understand. >
  
  Electing that trumphumping witch was a heinous self-inflicted crime for Arkansas hillbillies. >
  
  I still haven’t heard anyone say LatinX outside of a YouTube explaining what LatinX refers to, and right wingers taking a moment from yelling at gay clouds to battle a different made up controversy. >
  
  This is what you do when you have no idea or desire to actually make something better.  Banning something that impacts ONLY state government officials is a distraction from the fact that she doesn’t plan to do anything for the next four years besides collect a check. >
  
  Now as a peruvian I'll tell you this... sarah can go kick fucking rocks... and to american liberals (who mainly push the latinx stuff), we already have a gender neutral for groups of south americans and the such... its latinos >
  
  Remember when the same people tried to tell us that Black people wanted to be called "Americans of African descent" >
  
  Okay I'm specifically asking this to any users reading this right now.  
  Does anyone actually identify personally as "latinx"?  Every time this is brought up I hear that it's a term "only liberal white people use" and I want to take this opportunity to find out if there are actually people who use the term to self-identify. >
  
  You are never going to find 100% agreement on stuff like this but my understanding is most folks find that term kinda stupid. It seems like poor execution more than anything. >
  
  it’s More than poor execution, more like latinos aren’t fond of the term. >
  
  We are not. >
  
  Can confirm. Am Mexican. We really hate this. I hear LatinX and I feel some foreigner patting me on the head for being a good brownie. >
  
  I'm white and notice a ridiculous amount of tiptoeing lately. It's like PC Principle infected the general public. Calling someone Mexican is JUST OUTRAGEOUS! >
  
  It is outrageous if you’re calling a non-Mexican Latino a Mexican
  Which happens A LOT >
  
  Republicans love to solve problems that don’t exist >
  
  Just say "Hispanic"! It's what they actually use, it's gender-neutral, and it doesn't sound like a cleaning product. >
  
  It’s not generational, Polls show that fewer than 4% of Americans even use the term. >
  
  Its sort of generational in a sense.
  Latinx and Latine are generally used in the queer latin american communities.
  4% lines up pretty neatly with actual population statistics of people who identify as queer.
  Obviously not every queer latin american is calling themselves latinx or latine, but its a pretty good chunk of the community.
  The thing that makes it generational is a lot of younger people are more willing to identify themselves as some form of lgbtq+ and while cis younger people may not identify themselves with Latinx or Latine, they're also more likely to be willing to not be dicks about using the term to their friends who do use it.
  Its essentially the pronoun "debate"
  Assholes wonder why they have to use peoples preferred pronouns.
  Not assholes wonder why its so fuckin difficult for people to use preferred pronouns and why the assholes keep tryin to ban it. >
  
  Thank you. Well said. >
  
  Great picture of her, almost looking like she's holding a red lightsaber. Really accentuates her dark side vibes. >
  
  So, there's a lot of assumptions and BS circulating on this term and as a South American born Hispanic, I'm going to address it. First, this is a fake, manufactured, sensationalist "controversy". Red meat for the culture war! Most Hispanic people don't care about the term. We already know 'latinx' originated in LBGT groups. The Hispanics who do care are generally conservative. I see ZERO liberals bring up this term.
  Also, as with any other community or ethnic collective, we are not monolithic. We got our bigots, too.
  Edit: Also to add, WHO EVEN GIVES A SHIT about what this Trump toadie says regarding our communities! >
  
  They should ban her from starting sentences with the word “look.” >
  
  With all the problems where Arkansas ranks right at "thank God for Mississippi",  yeah, as one of your first acts go ahead and ban how some subset of 8.3% of your population may choose to be called. >
  
  Arkansas ranks 47 in education.  I’m sure this is exactly what was needed to raise these sort of rankings.  Especially within the first month on the job.  I’ve been through Arkansas.  With the exception of the nice tall trees that I passed on my way through, the state was completely missable.  There are a lot of opportunities to help the state improve and I don’t think she will or cares enough to do any of them. >
  
  At first glance, it appeared she was holding a red lightsaber. >
  
  First off: she’s doing pointless virtue signaling. 
  Secondly: she’s a piece of shit
  Thirdly: as Latinos/xs/whatever the fucks, I’m confident we care more about the dog whistle than we do about the word itself
  Lastly: she looks like Marilyn the Manatee from that episde of Bobs Burgers. >
  
  The article says “Just 3% of Latinos use the term ‘Latinx.’”. Shouldn’t be much debate then…. >
  
  I'll respect whatever anyone wants to be called. I just think LatinX is a dumb word. Latin does the same job. >
  
  Nobody calls anyone Latin, though… >
  
  Porn sites? >
  
  Yes. Or those harlequin “novels.” >
  
  Any of the Hispanic people you talked to trans or non-binary? 
  If you read the article they acknowledge that it is not common, and not everyone likes it (particularly older people) but there is a subset, (specifically trans and queer people) who prefer to use it for themselves 
  I'm absolutely fine with not using it to refer to all Latinos, and certainly against mandating that everyone has to use Latinx or they're bad people, but there is a subset who find it useful so arguing that no one should use it and it "needs to die" because the majority don't love it seems a bit needless. >
  
  People I know that are Spanish native speakers and LGBTQ+ don't use it, only ones who I ever hear use Latinx are white non Hispanic people. 
  I use Latine. 
  Now they are trying to push folx (folks) and it's so confusing as an ESL person. >
  
  I definitely think Latine has better odds of more commonplace use than Latinx. 
  Basically for the same reason the singular they has garnered more acceptance than neopronouns. The more smoothly things fit in a language the better. 
  I'm pretty sure folx is just silly online slang though so don't worry about that one. >
  
  I think the only people who use Latinx is really dumb white people on Twitter. It’s a made up word that they don’t give a shit about because their whole language is gendered. It’s not like the language is going out of its way to be bad… it’s literally just a lnaguage >
  
  The community doesn’t care. Liberal white america is the one shitting their pants with anger here. >
  
  Every single one of you sitting here handwringing about who uses the term or not and racing to show off how compromising you can be to give her credit because you find the word stupid...congratulations. You're making a great patsy for hate.
  How many government documents in Asa Hutchinson's admin do you think used "Latinx?" Yes, there are some people who could be described by the term who use it. Is "my latino friends" for you queer and nonbinary people as well? I can find plenty of English speakers who have big ideas about the singular they just being bad grammar guys...
  NONE OF THAT MATTERS!!! It is not the government's place to be dictating language. A ban like this can only complicate things for no benefit. It was a nothing move to show off, and arguing about a word is a great way to play along with her and her state party needing a distraction from trying to pass much more harmful legislation.
  But the truth is, most of you care more about a chance to play culture warrior when it comes down to it. >
  
  Right?  All these people can’t wait to agree when it refers to a group of people who wish to call themselves that.
  Also the survey everyone quotes that says “4% only use it” forget to look at the other results which said “57% of ‘Hispanic’ people don’t care what term is being used”.  Only 15% thought everyone should use Latino.  Lower than 23% who thought everyone should use “Hispanic”.  
  The best thing to do would be to use what’s comfortable for you whether it be LatinX, Latine, Latin@, Latina, Latino, Hispanic, or something else that someone has attributed to themselves inside that group. >
  
  Always loved when a non-minority talks about what minorities need. >
  
  It’s a stupid term that doesn’t need legislative action.  It doesn’t even get much use. >
  
  She looks like the less fun version of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland >
  
  As a Hispanic, this is a good thing. Hispanics don’t identify with the term; it’s being pushed on them by rich, white, English-speaking, educated progressives outside the community. 
  Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said it well in this quote in the article:
  “When Latino politicos use the term it is largely to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use,” Gallego tweeted in 2021. >
  
  It was a term in the gay American Hispanic community made notable by its usage among victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. >
  
  Why is it only 3% of Latinos refer themselves as LatinX? Where did the term LatinX come from? Is it even legit? >
  
  Because Latinx is like they/them. 
  It was never going to be a term that the entire Latine community used. 
  It was coined by queer Puerto Rican activists. >
  
  Oh, so it’s like they/them? Good to know. I’ll stick with Latino/Latina. It seems that’s what the vast majority of Latino/Latina’s would like to be referred. >
  
  I’m no fan of hers and she is fully of hate, but I also hate the term latinx. It’s one of the dumbest things I ever heard in recent memory and nobody that I know personally uses it or likes it. You can’t just change the language, you wanna make Latino or Latina gender neutral then say latin. >
  
  Latino, Latina, Latine, Hispanic...
  NO 👏 ONE👏 LIKES👏 THE WORD👏 LATINX👏
  You can't make this a controversy because Latinos dont like the word LATINX.
  The article tries to make it generational and then it goes on to cite actual numbers:
  
  Pew Research Center... found that 1 in 4 U.S. Hispanics have heard the term “Latinx,” but just 3% use it.
  
  Then it goes on to propagate the gross oversimplification and misleading concept that in Latinate languages ALL OF THEM INCLUDING FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, CATALAN, PORTUGUESE AND EVERY OTHER SUCH LANGUAGE gendered nouns have anything to do with how people understand sex, gender, or sexuality.
  No matter where it originated, the attempts to amplify the term despite its massive unpopularity is hostile, foreign, and arrogant to the people being condescended to. It feels particularly targeted given no other gendered language is receiving such scrutiny. >
  
  As someone with many Hispanic friends both from Central America and the US, I have never once heard them use the term latinX. 
  It honestly seems like a made up term invented by white people trying to sound inclusive. >
  
  Latinx getting banned. Good riddance. 
  Never heard anyone identifying themselves as Latinx. 
  All my peers either don't know about it or think it's dumb. 
  For perspective. I'm from California and a native Spanish speaker. We still use Latin/(o or a). It's literally how our language is structured (in Spanish ). 
  We already struggle with getting put into one basket (Cubans, Colombians, Argentinians, Mexicans , Peruvians, Guatemalans, Salvadorians... etc) 
  Latinx, Latino , Latina is just a lazy way to clump us altogether and assume a homogenous group only bc we share the same language whilst ignoring our own country's history. >
  
  Pretty slippery slope to be ok with the government blanket banning something....