White people don't like that the language is gendered, so instead of Latina (female) and Latino (male) they told everyone they should be using Latinx and it stuck.
I've seen a number of Hispanic people get irritated that people are trying to take away from their culture and language, and others that say they don't care.
Ironically, it's a kind of (figurative) colonialism where a ruling class is imposing their culture and quasi-religious virtue structure on other languages and cultures.
Which is really dumb. I’m learning Spanish now and everything is gendered in Spanish.
And this is not meant to be a political rant - no one could ever call me right wing - but a major reason that Democrats are starting to lose the Hispanic vote is because they are seen as to pandering with crap like this. For context, I’m a minority.
It's an English term for Latinos that non-Latinos in the U.S. use to signal inclusiveness (usually gender inclusiveness these days, but its history includes some LGBT inclusiveness as well). You see it a lot in corporate emails about awareness and sometimes in colleges and academia. It's mildly disliked by several parts of the political spectrum for a surprisingly diverse number of reasons, but it's generally well meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx.
Yes just like I as a Black person have to grit my teeth about all of the DI&E initiatives where we change branches from “master” to “main” and don’t use the term “KMS Master Key” because it’s “offensive” when I’m not aware of anyone of any color giving it a second thought.
From Wikipedia:
>Latinx is a neologism in American English which is used to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The gender-neutral ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Latino and Latina that are typical of grammatical gender in Spanish. Its plural is Latinxs.
