Column: The term Latinx wasn't made by 'woke' whites. Stop erasing its creators

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“In the early 2000s, queer Latinxs began using the term on message boards and blogs. The trend accelerated after the 2016 massacre of 49 mostly queer Latinx people at Pulse, the Orlando night club,” writes jeanguerre for latimesopinion.

the “x” as symbolic of a wound, an important “reminder of the erasure of Black Latinxs,” among other traumas with which the community must reckon.

Defenders of the term admit it isn’t perfect. Paola Ramos, a queer Latina and Vice News correspondent who wrote,” isn’t trying to force it on others. She just wants to normalize it. She gets inundated with hate and harassment for using the term — mostly from white, right-wing Latino men. Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand, who promotes nonviolent parenting through a group called Latinx Parenting, faces similar vitriol. “Latino men will follow me and come into my DMs specifically to cuss me out over the term in Spanish,” she told me.

 

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jeanguerre opinion As a Latino and democrat, Latinx is the stupidest term when it comes to inclusivity PS the Italians don’t use it and the have them similar structure of language as us

jeanguerre opinion I feel dumber for reading this, thank you

jeanguerre opinion

nkjemisin jeanguerre opinion Omg no. Stop.

jeanguerre opinion Why are humans being labeled?

jeanguerre opinion Yet no Latinos use it, like next to none, and instead a large percent find it offensive. It’s indeed bigoted liberals trying to force it on a population. Wait until they find out the entire language is built on TWO genders.

jeanguerre opinion And yet it's the woke whites that ran with the term. A vast majority of Latinos dislike the term.

jeanguerre opinion LATINO, clowns.

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