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I've been through numerous yearly HR trainings and not once has the term "LatinX" appeared in one. I also highly doubt that even a significant minority, let al

I've been through numerous yearly HR trainings and not once has the term "LatinX" appeared in one. I also highly doubt that even a significant minority, let alone "almost all", progressive Democratic politicians have ever used the term at all. Latinos themselves have rather squarely rejected "LatinX" on the basis of it being nigh-unpronounceable and entirely disconnected from how Spanish/Portuguese words actually work.

kilroy123 2y ago
Interesting. I have seen that in official HR training.
zestyping 2y ago
Sadly, Latinx is still used all over the place. Google turns up 94,800 instances of "latinx community" just in the past year: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latinx+community%22&tbs=qdr:y https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latinx+community%22&tbs=q... In fact, when I query for results and specify date ranges for each year (using Tools > Any time > Custom range), I get: 2018: 4,410 results 2019: 7,070 results 2020: 15,900 results 2021: 17,500 results 2022: 21,000 results 2023: 34,300 results 2024: 88,600 results Yeah, Google probably has a recency bias in its search corpus, but this is still a large amount of recent and ongoing usage. Google Trends doesn't show a clear decline either: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202025-01-14&geo=US&q=latinx&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202...
- dminik 2y ago
  Ah, statistics again. Wow, massive numbers. What happens if you add the terms latino and latina? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202025-01-14&geo=US&q=latinx,latino,latina&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202... Right, it barely moves above the zero line.
j4coh 2y ago
GitLab announced in 2020 they were making a focus on hiring Latinx directors: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/16/our-journey-to-a-diverse-and-inclusive-workplace/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/16/our-journey-to-a-di...

kilroy123 2y ago

Interesting. I have seen that in official HR training.

zestyping 2y ago

Sadly, Latinx is still used all over the place. Google turns up 94,800 instances of "latinx community" just in the past year: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latinx+community%22&tbs=qdr:y https://www.google.com/search?q=%22latinx+community%22&tbs=q... In fact, when I query for results and specify date ranges for each year (using Tools > Any time > Custom range), I get: 2018: 4,410 results 2019: 7,070 results 2020: 15,900 results 2021: 17,500 results 2022: 21,000 results 2023: 34,300 results 2024: 88,600 results Yeah, Google probably has a recency bias in its search corpus, but this is still a large amount of recent and ongoing usage. Google Trends doesn't show a clear decline either: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202025-01-14&geo=US&q=latinx&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202...

dminik 2y ago
Ah, statistics again. Wow, massive numbers. What happens if you add the terms latino and latina? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202025-01-14&geo=US&q=latinx,latino,latina&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-01-01%202... Right, it barely moves above the zero line.

j4coh 2y ago

GitLab announced in 2020 they were making a focus on hiring Latinx directors: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/16/our-journey-to-a-diverse-and-inclusive-workplace/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/16/our-journey-to-a-di...