The term Latinx seems to be one
that progressives have championed.
They believe that it's the right
way to refer to people in
the Hispanic community.
Because it's a non gendered way to
talk about people.
But what do people in the actual
community feel about this?
Are they in favor of being referred
to as Latinx or
would they prefer different labels?
Well, Gallup did a poll and
the results I want to say
are shocking but to be honest with
you, I kind of suspected this,
I'm curious what you think.
So, here's the question
Hispanic Americans preferred term
for their ethnic subgroup.
The term Hispanic Latino and
Latinx are used to refer to
the ethnic subgroup of Americans.
Which term do you think should
generally be used Hispanic, Latino,
Latinx, another term, or
does it not matter to you at all?
Let's look at the results.
So, the majority of respondents,
let's take a look at this graphic,
23%, there we go, 23% of
respondents say that they would
like to be referred to as Hispanic,
15% say Latino,
and only 15% say Latinx >> No 4%.
>> Is it 4%?
>> Yeah, Latino is 15%,
Latinx is just 4%.
>> My bad, yes, sorry.
>> While my favorite of course is
57% doesn't matter.
>> Doesn't matter, yes.
[LAUGH] >> So look,
we're progressive guys and
we love the progressive community.
But sometimes we come up with
slogans that don't make any sense
or words.
>> Or we speak on behalf of others,
when we should allow them to speak
for themselves.
>> Yeah, and I see we but
the progressive
community is a bunch of different
people nobody voted on it, right?
Did they ask everyone whose
progressive hey,
should we go with Latinx?
No, some rando, honestly, likely at
a college campus came up with it.
And then other folks on
college campuses said that's
the correct thing to do now.
And then they said we'd speak for
the whole progressive community.
Do you?
I don't remember voting, right?
And much more importantly,
in this case, they're like, okay,
now we speak for
all Latinos, do you?
because it doesn't look
like you do.
Now let's be fair to
that side too though, right?
Because, to be fair, a lot of folks
haven't even heard of Latinx.
They never,
because this is relatively new,
it's invented, right?
[LAUGH] So they, don't know they're
supposed to be offended by
the other things, right?
[LAUGH] It's kind of a funny thing
though, guys,
if you're on the left, to teach
people that you're supposed to be
offended at something, and
then have them get offended, and
then switch to a different name.
Okay, you don't need to do all
that stuff.
There's plenty of things to be
actually offended by, like where
our lives are on the line.
Police abuse and,
we can go on and on.
We don't have
universal health care.
We have low wages.
>> Corporate exploitation.
>> All these different things
that not only affect our lives, but
affect our not just our wealth and
our livelihood, but
our actual lives, oftentimes.
And and so look, I come out of from
personal experience too,
I remember there was controversy
here when I said, Justin Trudeau,
the leader of Canada,
he dressed up as Aladdin was and
they like, Brown face.
And I'm like, that's not a thing,
nobody got lynched for brown face.
I'm brown face, and I can tell you,
I don't care, right?
He was Middle Eastern,
I'm Middle Eastern or
Southern Middle East.
He dressed up as Aladdin,
which is Middle Eastern, which
by the way is a cartoon not real.
And people are like no,
you're not allowed to defend them.
But we never had a vote on that.
[LAUGH] And
why is your opinion weighed more
than my opinion?
I go to Oberlin.
Okay, if you say so.
I don't know why,
[LAUGH] the people who insist
that they are the hall monitors
of political correctness never got
elected, right?
They didn't get elected by
Progressives or
Latinos or Hispanics, right?
>> But more importantly,
I think that it distracts from
the issues that people
do genuinely care about.
>> Yes. >> And what it does is it
provides campaigning tools for
Democrats who want to deflect from
core issues that materially impact
Americans lives, right?
Like don't give them material for
their part in the culture wars.
But that's not to say that we
shouldn't respect people who want
to be referred in anyway, right?
So if they want to be referred in
a specific way I respect that.
But you want to hear that from
the actual community, the actual
people who, I think pronouns
in the transgender community is
a perfect example of that.
They clearly want to be referred to
the gender that they identify with
and I respect that wholeheartedly.
But making up non gendered language
on behalf of the Hispanic community
is just I don't think it's smart
politics.
I don't think it's
smart social skills either.
And then let's go to the part of
the poll that
polled Black Americans.
And I thought this was really
fascinating as well, because
there's more of a divide here.
So Black Americans were fairly
mixed on the question with
a straight preference for, or
a slight preference,
I should say, for Black.
52% would prefer to be referred to
as Black over African American,
where 44% preferred that label 4%
had no opinion either way.
So that's actually a really
difficult one, because it really
depends on who you're talking to.
The person that my husband
used to mentor, he's an adult now.
Said that he doesn't like to be
referred to as Black.
But I also know I
have Black friends who don't
like being referred to as Black.
I mean, who do like to be referred
to as Black, they don't like to be
referred to as people of color or
African American.
So it gets complicated depending on
who you're talking to and
what they prefer.
>> Yeah, so first thing I'd ask for
you guys for everybody is,
can we just be a little bit less
judgmental of everybody?
There's so much actual racism in
the world I mean,
Jesus it's filled to the rim.
And so we you don't have to go in
invent things to get upset about,
right?
And so, if someone uses the wrong
word instead of hating them, can
we just say hey guys, some folks
are genuinely upset about that,
can you be a decent person and
use the other word?
Reach out to them instead of like I
could give you forever and
ever, right?
And so I live through waves of
this, by the way on the Black
versus African American issue,
my ex girlfriend is Jamaican.
Some people might know I'm Mr.
Jamaica, I don't know if you guys
knew that.
>> They don't.
But people are talking
about it in the streets.
>> It's not true.
>> Okay, fine, she was Miss Jamaica
that doesn't necessarily make me
Mr. Jamaica but you know I am.
Okay anyways get to the point.
She did not like African America
because she was not
African American, she was Black.
She's from the Caribbean she's
not from Africa.
And so, that's okay, that's okay.
And by the way, she doesn't have to
say no, I don't want anybody else
being called African American.
And she didn't, right?
And we could be a little bit more
open minded about all that.
I remember when I was growing up,
people used to say oriental like
Asian, it was not an offense.
Yeah, when I was younger,
it was not at all offensive
at least as far as we knew, okay.
And then it became offensive and
there was a big fight over it.
People would say
you call rugs oriental,
you don't call people oriental.
I was like, you call rugs Turkish,
and you call people Turkish.
Okay, so but you know what?
The weight of the community
was clear.
>> Exactly.
>> And they preferred Asian.
So any decent person would switch
to Asian because we're going to
go purposely offending people for
why, are you a bad person?
[LAUGH] >> Exactly.
>> And its not like a real, right?
No real person, no average guys
going around going Latinx.
Have you ever gone to East LA and
heard anybody say Latinx?
I don't know, I haven't, I've gone
to UCLA ,I know a lot of Latinos.
I don't know anybody who says
Latinx other than Progressives who
are in a certain group, right?
>> Exactly.
>> But most importantly, and
by the way, we lost a lot of Latino
votes to Trump.
>> Yes.
>> And they weren't concerned about
Latinx I mean, I love that
over 50% said I don't care,
it doesn't matter to me.
You know what matters, your wages,
your health care,
those things matter, jobs, right?
And Trump tricked them into
thinking that he might be able to
get them jobs.
When they turn to the Democrats,
Democrats weren't talking about
jobs or wages or health care when
they could have been, because they
have the better policies, right?
But instead they were talking
about Latinx.
So, now, >> By the way,
real quick, the Democratic Party
in the state of California is very
quickly losing the Latino vote.
First of all, let me just say
the mismanagement of the state of
California by the Democratic Party
is obvious, it's clear, we see it
in our streets on a daily basis.
So with that said, I can understand
why Latino voters, who by the way,
the Democratic Party has taken
Latino voters for granted.
Same with Black voters.
And so if you're not going to
provide material benefits to these
demographics, what makes you think
that they're going to just continue
voting for you no matter what?
So I mentioned that because
you're right Jank, they're far less
concerned about labels and
and language policing.
And they want to focus on issues
that actually improve their lives.
Unfortunately, they're not going to
get that from the Republican Party.
But I think that
it's clear that they feel as though
they've been taken for
granted by the Democratic Party.
>> Are you kidding me?
It looks like Gavin Newsom is
going to lose a recall election.
It's unbelievable because they're
so incompetent, because they're so
obsessed with helping their donors.
It isn't about being against
the left, it's that we can all see
the corruption.
Hello, wakey,
wakey Democratic Party we see you.
Anyways, last thing is I just want
to double down on the best point
made and it was by Anna.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay [LAUGH] so,
corporate Democrats,
use gender and identity issues like
this and Latinx partly is a gender
issue because they don't want to
say Latino or Latina,
that's why they're saying Latinx.
They use identity issues like that
as a substitute for
taking real action, but voters
prefer actual economic action.
Joe Biden was incredibly popular in
the beginning of his term, why?
because he sent checks to people.
He actually helped them when they
needed help, both in relief checks,
unemployment checks etc.
Now after that he took a siesta if
you will, [LAUGH] and
he hasn't been heard from since.
And now his popularity is in
the gutter because people see
he's not doing anything.
And meanwhile, of course,
they're putting out all this and
they're not always nonstop identity
politics, right?
And did it help anybody?
No, and guys, one more time.
There's serious massive
racism in the country.
It's real and you minimize that as
well when you start talking about,
names, words, and nonsense, that,
that community itself doesn't care
about, instead of addressing
the actual issues,
both economic and social.