Opinion | What other terms need to go after ‘LatinX’ – By Chadwick Moore (New York Post) / Jan 28, 2023
Immediately after being sworn in this month as the new governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order eliminating the word “Latinx” from official government use.
It’s a step in the right direction. While neither the government nor society should make a habit of outright banning words, they also shouldn’t inject extraneous, fringe jargon where it never belonged in the place. And few phrases feel more fringe than Latinx. According to a 2020 Pew Research poll, only 3% of Hispanics use the term, and a whopping 76% had never even heard of it. Hispanics, Latinos, and Latinas overwhelmingly find “Latinx” bizarre, if not downright offensive (actually, a late 2020 poll revealed that 40% of Hispanics do take offense with the term).
Sanders isn’t the only leader returning common sense to everyday language. In December, the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines banned the use of preferred pronouns in its 17 schools and 80 parishes. Of course there was outcry: Despite the move being cheered by Catholic school parents across the state, Iowa Democratic State Sen. Claire Celsi took to Facebook to decry, “These schools want public dollars and want to treat kids in a way that might cause them to commit suicide,” and “This is not what Jesus would do.”
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