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<h2>UC San Diego has announced that they will ban the word “Latino” in favor of the word “Latinx,” which is “gender inclusive.”</h2>
<p>A new <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-latino-latinx-ucsd-20181202-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="gmail-x5l">report</a> from the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>
explains details a new language policy at UC San Diego that involves a
ban on the word “Latino,” which some argue is not inclusive enough.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The change is being promoted by students, social justice
activists and the LGBTQ community, which are trying to get people to
look beyond conventional notions of gender, sex and appearance.</p></blockquote>
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<p>As broadly used, Latino refers to people of Latin American origin or descent.</p>
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<p>Latinx includes men and women of Latin American descent, people who
are not exclusively male or female, people who don’t think of themselves
as a man or a woman, and people who don’t act or dress in ways that are
common to people of their gender.</p>
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<p>“This is about making the university more inclusive,” UC San Diego’s
vice chancellor of equity, diversity and inclusion Becky Pettit said in a
comment. “We’re meeting students where they are.”</p>
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<div class="gmail-card-content">The new policy, which will also apply to the
word Chicano, which will now be Chicanx, has been generally well
received by members of the UC San Diego community. Dayo F. Gore, an
ethnic studies professor at the university, said that terms change over
time. Gore argued that this is an appropriate and necessary change.</div>
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<p>“Terms and practices change over time,” Gore said. “It doesn’t mean
it is a zero-sum game. The important thing is how do we think about the
changes. It gives us a chance to be open and speak.”</p>
<p>Gore isn’t totally off base. There is nothing wrong with inclusive
language. However, terms and practices change over time based on their
use by the public. The social justice crowd believes that they can use
bureaucratic power to will new terms and practices into existence.</p>
<p>The amount of Americans that go out of their way to use
gender-inclusive terms like “Latinx” is incredibly small. To many,
“Latino” is already a gender-neutral term that can be used to describe a
man, woman, or transgender person of Latin American descent.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, two British universities <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/">banned</a> the word “woman” with the word “womxn,” which is allegedly more inclusive to transgender individuals.</p>
<p>“I’ve never met a trans woman who was offended by the word woman
being used, so I’m not sure why this keeps happening,” Jess Phillips, a
Labour MP, wrote on Twitter. “As if internet dissent now replaces public
policy. I get what they are trying to do but why is it only women not
men where this applies.</p>
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