Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez maintained using the term “Latinx” is more gender-inclusive language and told her fellow Democrats who cringe at the term it’s “not about your re-election prospects.”
“In the spirit of pride, I wanted to have a note on gender inclusivity in the Spanish language,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced in a diatribe posted to her Instagram story. “People sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term “Latinx.” Though even before “Latinx,” people were attempting to do this, like, use an at [@ symbol] to have the “A” and the “O” [in “Latino’ and “Latina”] together.
“Gender is fluid, language is fluid,” she went on. ‘[You] don’t have to make drama over it.”
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“There are some politicians — including Democratic politicians — that rail against the term “Latinx.” And they’re like, ‘This is so bad. This is so bad for the party like, blah, blah blah.’ And like, it’s almost as though it has not struck some of these folks that another person’s identity is not about your re-election prospects,” she stated. “Like, this is not about you.”
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The term Latinx gained popularity in left-leaning academic circles to refer to Hispanics without using the gendered “Latino” or “Latina” terms.
A recent Politico poll of Hispanic voters discovered that just 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as “Latinx,” 68 percent prefer “Hispanic,” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina.”
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Meanwhile, 40 percent announced that Latinx bothers or offends them, while 30 percent stated that using the term would make them less likely to vote for a candidate.
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Ocasio-Cortez, whose mother is from Puerto Rico and father is from the Bronx, announced that politicians bothered by the term must rethink their priorities.
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“You need to talk about health care more, you need to raise people’s wages, you need to talk more about issues that also matter to people,” she stated.
“That being said, if you don’t want to use it, no one’s forcing you to,” Ocasio-Cortez summed. “But for people who enjoy trying to figure out language and have it meet the modern age, that’s kind of where it’s at.”
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In the meantime, Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, of Colombian and Mexican descent, declared that his office was not permitted to use Latinx in official communications after the Politico survey.
“To be clear, my office is not allowed to use ‘Latinx' in official communications,” wrote Gallego, of Colombian and Mexican descent.
“When Latino politicos use the term, it is largely to appease White, rich progressives who think that is the term we use,” he went on. “It is a vicious circle of confirmation bias.”
Last week, New York Rep. Ritchie Torres called out the Yankees for using “Latinx" in a tweet regarding gun violence.
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