Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting the word “Latinx” from official use in the state government.
The order (pdf), which was among several Sanders signed, came just hours after she was sworn in as the new governor.
The order states that ethnically insensitive and pejorative language “has no place in official government documents or government employee titles,” and that the government “has a responsibility to respect its citizens and use ethnically appropriate language, particularly when referring to ethnic minorities.”
The term “Latinx” has been used by some social commentators in recent years as a “gender-neutral” alternative to the Spanish words Latina and Latino….