{"id":1495008,"date":"2022-05-27T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495008"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:59:56","slug":"rep-ritchie-torres-drags-new-york-yankees-for-using-latinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-ritchie-torres-drags-new-york-yankees-for-using-latinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ritchie Torres Drags New York Yankees For Using \u2018Latinx\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Frep-ritchie-torres-drags-new-york-yankees-for-using-latinx%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=1495008&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>New York Rep. Ritchie Torres became the latest Democrat to push back against using the term Latinx when he called out the New York Yankees for a gun violence tweet on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Never heard anyone locally use the term \u2018Latinx.\u2019 Does a majority of Hispanics actually use the term \u2018Latinx\u2019? If the answer is \u2018no\u2019, how did \u2018Latinx\u2019 come to be the term to use in government and Corporate America?<\/span>\u201d Torres asked, in response to a tweet claiming that thousands of \u201cLatinx\u201d people are killed or injured by gun violence every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Every community should have the right to label itself, rather than have a label imposed on them by others,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitchieTorres\/status\/1530159205201723394\">continued<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/new-york-ritchie-torres-msnbc-defund-police-good-riddance\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Good Riddance\u2019: Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres Says \u2018Defund The Police\u2019 Movement Is \u2018Dead\u2019 In New York City)<\/a><\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I represent the South Bronx, home to the Yankees. Never heard anyone locally use the term \u2018Latinx.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Does a majority of Hispanics actually use the term \u2018Latinx\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>If the answer is \u2018no\u2019, how did \u2018Latinx\u2019 come to be the term to use in government and Corporate America? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4EYR1ksywx\">https:\/\/t.co\/4EYR1ksywx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitchieTorres\/status\/1530158582611812361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Polls have repeatedly found that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/05\/poll-hispanic-latinx\/\">fewer<\/a> than 5% of Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. use the term \u201cLatinx,\u201d without a significant generational divide in usage. One <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/hispanic-latino-voters-poll-latinx-latina\/\">survey<\/a> found that 40% of Hispanic and Latino voters were offended by the neologism, which proponents intend to be a gender-neutral form of Latino or Latina.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego blasted the term in December following the release of one such poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/not-allowed-use-top-democrat-responds-latinx-poll-slams-term-ruben-galledo\/\">explaining<\/a> that Latino politicians who use it do so \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to appease white rich progressives<\/span>\u201d and have \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">deeper problems\u201d in \u201cunderstand[ing] the Latino community.\u201d Gallego is the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Torres\u2019 district, New York\u2019s 15th, includes Yankees Stadium, is 66% Hispanic or Latino, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.census.gov\/geo\/maps\/cong_dist\/cd117\/cd_based\/ST36\/CD117_NY15.pdf\">according<\/a> to the U.S. Census.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic elected officials and aligned pollsters have expressed concern that Hispanic and Latino voters are trending towards the Republican Party. A December 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/wsj-poll-democrat-republican-hispanic-voters\/\">poll<\/a> found that Hispanic and Latino voters were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. President Joe Biden holds a 60% disapproval rating among the demographic, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/20\/bidens-approval-rating-falls-26-hispanic-voters\/\">according<\/a> to a May Quinnipiac poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Rep. 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