Title: Is 'Latinx' elitist? Some push back at the word's growing use
Headings: Is 'Latinx' elitist? Some push back at the word's growing use
Is 'Latinx' elitist? Some push back at the word's growing use
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Content: Latinos "still struggle with educational advancement, incarceration, teenage pregnancy, police brutality, predatory bank practices, discrimination, crime and violence, low literacy, immigration and labor exploitation, diabetes, etc., but suddenly gender nouns are the priority,” Sanchez said. Sanchez,43, is also concerned that Latinx erases Hispanic history by suggesting that the use of traditional gendered Spanish terms is exclusionary. He sees "Latino" and "Latina" as describing the different roles men and women have historically adopted. To discard those terms "is to disrespect the entire culture as well as our brothers, fathers who have fought hard to be respected as men," Sanchez said. Like Bowles, Sanchez said Latinx is rarely used in everyday situations. “ No one calls themselves Latinx,” Sanchez said. Enrique Salas, 27, a South Carolina resident who works in retail, said there's a simple reason he won't use Latinx. "I don't see the point of it when there's already a word for it, and it's Latinos," Salas said. "Why do people keep writing 'Latinx'?