“Excuse me, @JoeBiden?” asked Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.)
“Only 3 [percent] of Hispanics use the term ‘Latinx’ and 76 [percent] have never heard of it,” tweeted former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, citing an August 2020 Pew Research Center poll. “It’s a term woke White people have imposed on them against their will which is racist.”
“We should actually deport anyone who uses ‘Latinx’ unironically,” cracked Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmiri.
“It does not occur to Joe Biden that tens of millions of Latinos are American citizens,” tweeted former Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.
“Almost 50 million [L]atino American citizens live here, why would we deport them?” agreed The Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll.
“Get a driver’s license, compete on standardized tests, get a vaccine, be in the country legally … Is there anything Democrats assume minorities can do?” asked another Twitter user, @sunnyright.
“What is Latinx???” another user asked. “I would appreciate you stop calling us that. It’s offensive. I’m a #Latino and my wife is a #Latina. Somos #Latinos. Please get that straight!”
A few Twitter users even suggested that they would rather be called a racial slur than “Latinx”.