A new political controversy was generated this week in the state of Florida: Republican representative María Elvira Salazar presented a law to eliminate the use of the word “Latinx” from official public documents, according to an article published by the portal from The Hill news.
The term was originally proposed as a gender-inclusive option for the words “Latino” and “Latina,” but has met with resistance within the country’s more conservative political circles.
Although the term “Latinx” has gained popularity lately, some Spanish-speaking people have rejected this word for being unpronounceable in Spanish.
According to a statement reviewed by The Hill, Salazar assured that the administration of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is “generating a ‘woke’ crusade on the identity of the Latino, as well as the Spanish language.”
The term woke, according to the Oxford Dictionary, belongs to American informal English and means “Alert to injustice in society, especially racism.” Specialists consulted by CNN in Spanish have defined the term woke as a synonym for expressions such as “politically correct”, and is part of the common American slang.
Within conservative political sectors, the term woke is rather pejorative, and is used to insult people who identify with Democratic progressivism.
Salazar assured that he will not let “the Biden Administration use White House communications to attack our language and impose progressive ideology on our people.”
The Hill has reported that the White House has used the term “Latinx” in some statement titles in 2023, while institutions such as the Department of Energy or the National Institute of Justice have also used the term in some of their public documents.
Salazar indicated that the word “Latinx” is a woke invention “of the neo-Marxist left, and therefore should never be used to refer to someone of Latin American or Hispanic descent.”
“Far-left professors at universities introduced the term in 2004 for the purpose of infiltrating gender-blind Hispanic communities. Despite the momentum (that the term) has had from university campuses, the public continues to reject this word,” Salazar said at a press conference.
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