Joe Biden Saying 'Latinx' Sparks Widespread Mockery, Wave of Jokes
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Joe Biden's remark on Thursday noting the difficulties around getting "Latinx" vaccinated has caused a flood of jokes on social media. The word aims to be a gender-neutral term for referring to members of the Hispanic/Latin American community.
© Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden speaking at the Green Road Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 24.
Several Twitter users have shared jokes, memes and comments mocking the president's remark.
In a speech highlighting the importance of getting vaccinated, given at the Green Road Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, Biden said: "It's awful hard, as well, to get Latinx vaccinated as well. Why? They're worried that they'll be vaccinated and deported."
User @CualquieraMujer shared a cartoon graphic alongside the Spanish words: "Cuando Biden dice 'latinx,'" which translates to "When Biden says 'latinx.'"
The cartoon includes one figure labeled "Biden" with the words "It's called LATINX" below it. To the right is a figure wearing a sombrero with the words "Shut the f*** up, gringo" below it. The post has received over 6,300 likes since it was shared.
Sharing an image of Biden appearing with furrowed eyebrows, user @ColonelSugna tweeted: "Hispanics hearing the word 'LatinX.'" The post received at least 1,300 likes at the time of writing.
Cuando Biden dice "latinx": pic.twitter.com/9bN8tnwFRe
— Una mujer cualquiera (@CualquieraMujer) June 24, 2021
User @MelkorCorleone also tweeted an image noting: " What I think of when I hear anyone use Latinx." The image showed a person potting with a caption saying "Hispanic liberal saying 'latinx.'" Meanwhile, a man pictured in the background with a seemingly disapproving look on his face was captioned "People from Latin America and normal Hispanics." The tweet has received nearly 2,000 likes since it was first posted.
What I think of when I hear anyone use Latinx. pic.twitter.com/93xnBSZP0l
— Melkor (@MelkorCorleone) June 25, 2021
User @greg_price11 tweeted: "Unironically using the word 'latinx' is almost as embarrassing as implying that all Hispanic Americans are illegal lmao." The post has received nearly 2,000 likes since it was shared.
User @thehalestone wrote: "can someone please put this man down for a nap" in a tweet that's received nearly 200 likes since it was first shared.
Hispanics hearing the word "LatinX" pic.twitter.com/4Ia4rBTGuf
— Summer of Colonel Angus (@ColonelSugna) June 24, 2021
User @Harvi_Blip wrote: "Pls I'd rather they call me a slur then call me Latinx," in a tweet that's received over 100 likes since it was posted.
Biden's "Latinx" remark was made while speaking about a focus on "equity" and "access for people" as part of the country's latest COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
The president said: "Nationwide, we're seeing the lowest number of daily cases and deaths since the first day of the pandemic. And we've built equity into the heart of the vaccination program. I put together a vaccination team, headed by a really bright guy, and we put together a group of 23 doctors. And what they did was we had one doc who does nothing but deal with equity—access for people.
"Seventy-three percent of the shots administered at community health centers through the federal program we have and more than 58 percent of the shots administered in federally run vaccination sites have gone to people of color. It makes a gigantic difference.
"And across the nation, people of color have accounted for more than half of all the vaccinations in the last month. The more we close the racial gap in vaccination rates, the more lives we can save," Biden said.
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Sums it up nicely.
Biden had a terrible day yesterday
As many times as Biden has put his foot in his mouth, he should be careful about stretching out his mouth.
"Several twitter users". That's akin to scraping the bottom of the barrel to find that 'many' ...
"When he looked at the planet Jupiter, Galileo found that it was accompanied by several small satellites or moons that orbited around it." [all of 4].
— Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time.
Someone really should inform Joe Biden that not all Hispanics are illegal aliens and the ones here legally are plenty smart enough to know that getting a vaccine has nothing to do with deportation, and that they can not be deported if they are here legally and committing no crimes.
There are what, 6 million illegal aliens in the US? Sounds like a wise move to get them vaccinated seeing that all of the new covid cases are within the unvaccinated group of the American population.
Many estimates double that number, some even triple it.
Perhaps Biden should have specified illegal aliens if that is what he meant, even though the words aren't used by progressive liberals.
“Someone really should inform Joe Biden that not all Hispanics are illegal aliens”
he’d forget 17 minutes later.
I did, but then I'm a progressive monarchist.
yeah, but you aren't an American, so it is probably cool with US progressive liberals if you do use it.
It's more like 20 million and growing.
That's not going to happen and you all know it. Work something out and stop bashing each other into the partisan stupidity that this entire issue has become.
It could well be that many, but is the real number just the one we 'want' to see. I recall returning from a vacation with my X and there were ants in the house ... I saw 10s, she saw 1000s.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here for anything about President Biden.
He pronounced a word wrong.
Pathetic!
Most folks read the article before commenting so they know what to write about.
What word was that?
My mistake, for using that word, whatever.
Still pathetic
I guess this is a much much much bigger deal than his "aggressive whispering"
What word?
Well, in all fairness, Biden did make it seem like he thinks "Latinx" are all illegal aliens, so there's that, too!
Still desperate
Still pathetic
No doubt, SS DD
Perhaps Joe and Kamala will get a clue sometime soon.
Just don't bet on it!
I don’t even know what Latinx means (never bothered to look it up and don’t plan to) or who it referring to but I get the feeling that it is an entirely unnecessary term.
Latinx is a gender neutral term that is applicable to both men and women, thus replacing both latino and latina.
You are right that it is not necessary, but neither does it hurt anything.
Yeah, completely unnecessary. Thanks for the explanation though.
I should add that it also applies, perhaps mostly, to non gender people.
I would say it is a politically correct term that Biden probably shouldnt be bothering with, but is it a big deal that he uses it? lol.
Odd you say so considering Biden's approval rating is holding steady in the 55 percentage range while Trump's is under 40 percent...
It is insulting to Hispanic Americans.
Biden thinks he can be like Obama, uniting all groups as if they were one and trying to turn them on White Americans. It just doesn't work for Joe.
Says a trump supporter.
How exactly is Biden trying to turn Hispanics into white people?
Turning them into? Or turning them against?
BTW, one correction: Many Hispanics are White people.
Biden claims all Latinos are illegal while trying to pander to them using woke language of the day.
Good stuff.
The right is particularly desperate to find things to criticize Biden for. It is completely laughable.
Then Trump must have been damn near perfect under that standard, since the left had to make up a claim that Trump called all Mexicans rapists and spent all sorts of time criticizing him for a fake claim.
what does "They're not sending their best" mean?
It sounds like he's talking about everyone who crosses the border. Why are you trying to defend this?
“what does "They're not sending their best" mean?”
it means we are not getting skilled, educated, or financially independent people illegally entering the country. Good grief
You claimed " The right is particularly desperate to find things to criticize Biden for. desperate to find things to criticize Biden for. "
Kaine has embellished the controversy by saying Trump has said "all Mexicans are rapists." The Democrat doesn’t come close to proving his claim; all of the Trump quotes Kaine’s campaign sent us pertain to unauthorized immigrants crossing the Mexican border into the U.S.
No doubt, many Latinos have taken umbrage with what Trump actually has said. But Kaine put an insult into the mouth of Trump that never was uttered.
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Democrats literally had to make up quotes to criticize Trump. At least this is a legit quote.
Many people who bitched about Trump's lies told lies about Trump.
Nothing hypocritical about that, no-sir-ee!!
Biden's daily collection of blunders and gaffes is breaking news, and there is plenty to chose from.
Joe's a fucking joke and laughing stock.