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Comment by jl6

5 days ago

I’m saying that he shouldn’t have presented use of “Latinx” as an unalloyed good, and uncritically “inclusive” (a massive assumption which is highly debatable, particularly amongst Latinos), and that his survey questions are very weak at controlling for the explanations that Latinos generally give for disliking the term (pronunciation, erasure of diversity, trendiness, imperial/colonial attitude to language, elitism…).

Concluding that there is no problem with the term and the real problem is “queerphobia” is textbook academic myopia.

See this critique, which the author engages with - unconvincingly: https://x.com/paulnovosad/status/1851994193503359003