Sarah Huckabee Sanders banned the word “Latinx” within hours of being sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas
that found that 3 percent of the Hispanic population nationwide uses the term describe themselves. She also cited the Real Academia Española, a Madrid-based cultural institution that maintains the Spanish language, which rejects the use of “x” as an alternative to “o” and “a” in Spanish. In the
, Sanders used the findings to justify the elimination of the term “latinx,” which she considers “culturally insensitive.”that Sander’s sudden interest to remove the term Latinx – a gender-neutral alternative to Latina or Latino — panders to the “anti-woke agenda” increasingly adopted by the Republican party.
“It is something that seems to be tied to things that they object to, which is really anything that prioritizes marginalized people and marginalized points of view,” Morales toldMorales also said that the governor seems to have quoted “the one Pew Hispanic report as evidence that people find it offensive or that they reject it” without acknowledging
that examine the small rise in the use of the term and the use of other gender neutral alternatives such as “Latine.”
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