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1. yellow+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-14 03:02:18
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.
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2. kilroy+H6[view] [source] 2025-01-14 03:54:46
>>yellow+(OP)
Interesting. I have seen that in official HR training.
3. zestyp+qx[view] [source] 2025-01-14 08:37:01
>>yellow+(OP)
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=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%202...

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4. j4coh+cc1[view] [source] 2025-01-14 14:28:34
>>yellow+(OP)
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-di...
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5. dminik+rj1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 15:03:58
>>zestyp+qx
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%202...

Right, it barely moves above the zero line.

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