{"id":1505064,"date":"2022-06-06T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505064"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:34:26","slug":"ocasio-cortez-goes-after-democratic-politicians-that-rail-against-latinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-goes-after-democratic-politicians-that-rail-against-latinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Goes After \u2018Democratic Politicians That Rail Against Latinx\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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%2Focasio-cortez-goes-after-democratic-politicians-that-rail-against-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=1505064&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>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked fellow Democrats who do not use the word \u201cLatinx\u201d in a Sunday night Instagram story, accusing them of \u201cmak[ing] drama\u201d about \u201cgender inclusivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several prominent Democrats, including Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/not-allowed-use-top-democrat-responds-latinx-poll-slams-term-ruben-galledo\/\">Ruben Gallego<\/a> of Arizona, have criticized the term, noting its unpopularity with native Spanish-language speakers. Polls have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/05\/poll-hispanic-latinx\/\">repeatedly<\/a> shown that no more than 5% of Hispanic and Latino Americans use \u201cLatinx.\u201d A December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe74ec0000\">survey<\/a> found that \u201cLatinx\u201d \u201cbothered or offended\u201d 40% of respondents, with 20% \u201cbothered or offended\u201d \u201ca lot.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/ritchie-torres-drags-new-york-yankees-latinx-tweet\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Rep. Ritchie Torres Drags New York Yankees For Using \u2018Latinx\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, according to Ocasio-Cortez, the use of \u201cLatinx\u201d is just part of language evolving in a more \u201cinclusive\u201d way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term \u2018Latinx.\u2019 But even before \u2018Latinx\u2019 people were trying to use an @ to have the \u2018a\u2019 and the \u2018o\u2019 together. Gender is fluid, language is fluid, and I think people right now are using the \u2018e\u2019 term as gender-neutral in order to be as inclusive as possible. Don\u2019t have to make drama over it,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobertgage\/status\/1533794168006393857\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> goes on a rant against Democratic politicians who are afraid to use \u201cLatinx.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xBgnkJ0zcf\">pic.twitter.com\/xBgnkJ0zcf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Gage (@johnrobertgage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobertgage\/status\/1533800140372590592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI also have a mini-rant about this because there are some politicians, including Democratic politicians, that rail against the term \u2018Latinx.\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018this is so bad, this is so bad for the party,\u2019 like blah blah blah. And it\u2019s almost like it hasn\u2019t struck some of these folks that another person\u2019s identity is not about your reelection prospects,\u201d she claimed. \u201cLike, this is not about you. Second of all, if putting a little \u2018x\u2019 on your campaign literature is what you think is the difference between winning and losing an election, you need to talk about healthcare more. You need to raise people\u2019s wages. You need to talk about more issues that also matter to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic and Latino voters moved eight points towards the GOP from 2016 to 2020, with double-digit <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/wsj-poll-democrat-republican-hispanic-voters\/\">shifts<\/a> in some parts of Florida and Texas. This movement is due to Democrats talking to Latinos \u201clike we talk to white liberals,\u201d Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/22\/ruben-gallego-kyrsten-sinema-latinos-white-liberals\/\">said<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent of Latinos disapproved of Biden\u2019s job performance in a May <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/20\/bidens-approval-rating-falls-26-hispanic-voters\/\">survey<\/a>, with only 26% approving, the worst numbers of any demographic group polled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked fellow Democrats who do not use the word \u201cLatinx\u201d in a Sunday night Instagram story, accusing them of \u201cmak[ing] drama\u201d about \u201cgender inclusivity.\u201dSeveral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505064","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\/1505064","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505064\/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=1505064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}