It’s become common knowledge even in the most feverish of left-wing fever swamps that white progressives in reality do It is not give a royal rip what the minority groups who they claim to want to represent and protect really think about the issues facing Americans of all backgrounds every day.
We’ve seen this on a number of “woke” fronts over the last decade or so, with one recent example being the prog left’s obsession with canceling the Washington Redskins, excuse me, Washington Football Team because they previously refused to back down from using a name that appeared to primarily offend white liberals and not most Native Americans (and by “Native Americans” I mean actual ones, not Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren).
Though the NFL team eventually caved and then some after the activist left wore them down, one group that has made it clear that they won’t back down from a similar and more current fight are various Latino organizations, who are now actively pushing to effectively cancel the use of the Dem/media-endorsed term “Latinx” in official documents and the like because pretty much no one in the Latino community cares for it:
Elected officials, a major newspaper and the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. have all spoken out strongly in recent weeks against the continued use of “Latinx,” the gender-neutral term promoted by progressives to describe people of Spanish-speaking origin.
It matters This is also indicative of a move by some Latinos towards self-definition rather than being labeled and promoted by mostly white academics and Latino progressives.
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Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ campaign arm, announced last month his congressional staff is not allowed to use “Latinx” in official communications.
Days after Gallego’s tweet, Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, instructed staff and board members to drop the word “Latinx” from the group’s official communications, NBC Latino’s Suzanne Gamboa reported.
The “major newspaper” Axios referred to in their report was the Miami Herald, which in an editorial last month said liberals needed to stop using the term primarily because it wasn’t popular with Latinos. But the larger issue, the Herald pointed out, was that such terms helped Republicans make inroads with the Latino community in critical battleground states like Florida – and we can’t have that:
A Republican operative rejoices every time a Democratic politician mentions the phrase. It’s just what the GOP needs to make the case that Democrats are too busy being “woke” to worry about the everyday-life concerns of Americans. Democrats can be held responsible for more than Donald Trump’s recent inroads in South Florida. The Democratic Party struggles to get the message across and is notoriously absent from Hispanic communities until election day.
This editorial came six months after another liberally biased piece in which they insulted Hispanics for voting for Republicans because they had the gut to not drink liberal Kool-Aid. The piece went terribly wrong.
It’s a good thing that the Latino community is fighting back against those white progressives who pretend to represent them. Like the failed Defund the Police movement, it’s another reminder that sanity can prevail when so-called “marginalized” people in this country decide to unite and tell woke leftists “enough is enough.”
Flashback:Hispanic Voters Respond After Terry McAuliffe says the Most Insulting Thing he Could to Them
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