Burn it all! #AmherstUprising snowflakes just taught us a new 'dumb SJWism'

Sarah D. | 4:13 PM on November 13, 2015

As Twitchy told you, a group of Amherst College students calling themselves “Amherst Uprising” have submitted a long list of demands to the college’s president, administrators, and board of trustees. Among their 11 demands is that any student found displaying a “Free Speech” poster be subjected to disciplinary action, including mandatory “extensive training for racial and cultural competency.” They’ve given until 11:59 p.m. on November 18 to comply. Otherwise, there could be trouble. You hear that? Trouble!

Here’s another demand:

It’s full of the usual SJW P.C. jargon … except maybe for one term we’ve heretofore been unfamiliar with:

commenter noticed the Amherst dolts included a demand to recognize the oppression of "Latinx." Latinx. Can you figure out why it ends in x?

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) November 13, 2015

https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/665252012208951296

@SonnyBunch When the hell did Latinx become a word use by sane people? Or has that yet to happen?

— epobirs (@epobirs) November 13, 2015

https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/665251012723257344

“Latinx”? Seriously? What fresh hell is this?

https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/665261694084624385

https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/665253183879450624

Oh, lawdy …

The “x” makes Latino, a masculine identifier, gender-neutral. It also moves beyond Latin@ – which has been used in the past to include both masculine and feminine identities – to encompass genders outside of that limiting man-woman binary.

Latinx, pronounced “La-teen-ex,” includes the numerous people of Latin American descent whose gender identities fluctuate along different points of the spectrum, from agender or nonbinary to gender non-conforming, genderqueer and genderfluid.

So, this is where we’re at now. Fan. Frigging. Tastic.

Thank tweeps, I've learned that's Latinx is the gender-neutral way of referring to Latina/Latino. #TheMoreYouKnow

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 13, 2015