{"id":1404400,"date":"2022-03-28T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404400"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:14:22","slug":"actor-john-leguizamo-slammed-for-praising-beautiful-latinx-faces-at-the-oscars-virtue-signaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-john-leguizamo-slammed-for-praising-beautiful-latinx-faces-at-the-oscars-virtue-signaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor John Leguizamo Slammed for Praising &#039;Beautiful Latinx Faces&#039; at the Oscars: &#039;Virtue Signaling&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factor-john-leguizamo-slammed-for-praising-beautiful-latinx-faces-at-the-oscars-virtue-signaling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor John Leguizamo caught some backlash after he praised the \u201cbeautiful Latinx faces\u201d in the audience at the\u00a094th Academy Awards on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at all these beautiful faces out here, all these beautiful Latinx faces,\u201d\u00a0Leguizamo said, speaking to the Oscars audience. \u201cWe got great representation here tonight, people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Leguizamo: &#8220;Look at all these beautiful faces out here, all these beautiful Latinx faces. We got great representation here tonight, people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1H1Y9jC9bl\">https:\/\/t.co\/1H1Y9jC9bl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oscars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OJz6tYt51K\">pic.twitter.com\/OJz6tYt51K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1508260264965283848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The criticism and mockery of John Leguizamo\u00a0flooded social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I wish I was at the Oscars so I could\u2019ve gone Will Smith on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnLeguizamo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnLeguizamo<\/a> in the name of all the Latinos in the world for calling the Latino community: LatinX and Brown. Show some respect brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafa El Alcalde (@ElalcaldeRafa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElalcaldeRafa\/status\/1508270941410889735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Latinx?&#8221; Does <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnLeguizamo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnLeguizamo<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> know that ~1% of Hispanics actually use that term? Who am I kidding? Of course not. They can&#8217;t be bothered when it comes to a truth that poops on their narrative. Shame, I loved Leguizamo in the &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; series. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7gU97sppxC\">pic.twitter.com\/7gU97sppxC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaRoseGold\/status\/1508264315475972096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The lack of head nods when Megan was flowing is proof there wasn&#8217;t as much diversity in that room as John Leguizamo said there was. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oscar?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oscar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusAire\/status\/1508261571381932034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLatinx faces\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnLeguizamo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnLeguizamo<\/a> is virtue signaling to his white liberal friends.<\/p>\n<p>No Hispanic uses this word. Stop trying to make it a thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiancarloSopo\/status\/1508260448034033680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The term \u201cLatinx\u201d to describe Hispanic Americans has faced intense backlash, from Hispanic Americans who overwhelmingly say that they prefer the terms \u201cHispanic\u201d and \u201cLatino\u201d to label their community.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, a poll of Hispanic Americans across 15 states showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/poll-only-1-7-percent-of-hispanic-americans-use-woke-latinx-term\/\">just 1.7 percent<\/a> of Hispanics said they use the term \u201cLatinx\u201d while more than 60 percent use \u201cHispanic\u201d and more than 30 percent use \u201cLatino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even among Hispanic Americans who are registered Democrats, the \u201cLatinx\u201d term is woefully unpopular. The poll found that just 1.6 percent of Democrat Hispanics use the term \u201cLatinx\u201d to describe themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can follow Breitbart News\u2019 coverage of the Oscars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/live\/94th-academy-awards-livewire\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor John Leguizamo caught some backlash after he praised the \u201cbeautiful Latinx faces\u201d in the audience at the\u00a094th Academy Awards on Sunday evening. \u201cLook at all these beautiful faces out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}