The growing bipartisan backlash against ‘Latinx’
Since its emergence, the term “Latinx” has been unpopular with Hispanics. Yet despite this opposition, progressive activists and organizations continue to use it as a means of identifying people of Latin American heritage in a supposedly more sensitive way. The term's origins remain a subject of debate, although its users argue that the word "Latino" reinforces the patriarchy while the "x" recognizes nonbinary people. According to the Wall Street Journal, it made its debut in academic literature a decade ago in Puerto Rican psychology periodicals as part of an effort to "escape the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language." Since then it has been adopted by many progressives as part of their ever-expanding twenty-first-century lexicon.
