{"id":1505687,"date":"2022-06-06T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505687"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:49:32","slug":"aoc-blasts-democrats-for-not-using-a-term-that-virtually-no-ones-uses-plurality-finds-term-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-blasts-democrats-for-not-using-a-term-that-virtually-no-ones-uses-plurality-finds-term-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Blasts Democrats For Not Using A Term That Virtually No Ones Uses, Plurality Finds Term \u2018Offensive\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\">34<\/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%2Faoc-blasts-democrats-for-not-using-a-term-that-virtually-no-ones-uses-plurality-finds-term-offensive%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=1505687&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--><p>Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) slammed her Democrat colleagues for resisting using the term \u201cLatinx\u201d when talking about the Latino community, even though the term is generally not used by that community.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left lawmaker made the remarks during a \u201cmini-rant\u201d on Sunday night in a video that she posted to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso in the spirit of pride, I wanted to have a note on gender inclusivity in Spanish language, people sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term \u2018Latinx,\u2019 but even before Latinx, people were trying to do this like use an \u2018@\u2019 to have the \u2018A\u2019 and the \u2018O\u2019 together,\u201d she claimed. \u201cGender is fluid, language is fluid.\u201d<\/p>\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,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s almost like it hasn\u2019t struck some of these folks that another person\u2019s identity is not about your reelection prospects. Like this is not about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond of all, if putting a little \u2018X\u2019 on your campaign literature is what you think is the difference between winning or losing an election, you need to talk about health care more, you need to raise people\u2019s wages, you need to talk about more issues that also matter to people,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s claims come despite polling that shows that only 2% of Latinos call themselves \u201cLatinx,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/hispanic-voters-latinx-term-523776\">Politico<\/a>, which added, \u201cMore problematic for Democrats: 40 percent said Latinx bothers or offends them to some degree and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez then claimed that people are now trying to use the term \u201cLatine\u201d over \u201cLatinx\u201d because Latine \u201ccould be more inclusive to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Latine, you avoid the masculine \u2018O\u2019 you avoid the feminine \u2018A\u2019,\u201d she claimed. \u201cLatine is a little more neutral, so it could be more inclusive to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat being said, if you don\u2019t want to use it, no one\u2019s forcing you to, but for people who enjoy trying to figure out language and have it meet the modern age, that\u2019s kind of where it\u2019s at,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<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<p>Some Democrats, like Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ), who is known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fing-baby-killer-arizona-rep-attacks-sen-ted-cruz-in-wake-of-texas-school-shooting\">vulgar<\/a> rants on social media, have lambasted using the term \u201cLatinx,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rubengallego\/status\/1467920180135276554?lang=en\">saying<\/a>, \u201cTo be clear my office is not allowed to use \u2018Latinx\u2019 in official communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Latino politicos use the term it is largely to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a vicious circle of confirmation bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL), whose district is in south Florida, called Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s remarks about injecting woke terminology into the Spanish language \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll stop getting mad at the term \u2018Latinx\u2019 when they STOP using it at all,\u201d Gimenez <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepCarlos\/status\/1533856025828282369\">said<\/a>. \u201cTerms already exist to achieve their goals: Latin Americans, Hispanics, etc. Stop the cultural colonialism. They don\u2019t get to hijack our culture and our language just to push their wokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) slammed her Democrat colleagues for resisting using the term \u201cLatinx\u201d when talking about the Latino community, even though the term is generally not used by that community. The far-left lawmaker made the remarks during a \u201cmini-rant\u201d on Sunday night in a video that she posted to Instagram. \u201cAlso in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1505710,"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-1505687","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\/1505687","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}