The numbers are a BIT lower than I would have expected, but any one of us who have been going on about the MILES-WIDE gap between actual minority groups and the elite progressives who speak over them, or for them without their consent, could have predicted this.
2/ I wrote about this in February. On all sorts of controversial issues, progressive elites claiming to hold views to protect or advance the interests of marginalized groups... disagree with the opinion of the majority of members of that group
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If you are a white person who uses "Latinx," how do you justify that now that the question has been asked and something like 98% of memebrs of this group do NOT prefer this word? Are there other instances in which you ignore how a group prefers to be spoken of to this extent? 
This isn't just culture-war BS -- it actually matters for politics. We have a situation where someone like Liz Warren becomes convinced by six-figure consultants that this is how she has to talk to shore up "the base," and then ends up talking in a way "the base" finds alienating
Slick DLC consultant, 1995: "Yup, people out there are SUPER concerned about the deficit."
Slick Woke Inc. consultant, 2019: "Can't tell you how many Mexican-Americans are SICK 👏 AND 👏TIRED 👏 of accidental Spanish misgendering."
Slick Woke Inc. consultant, 2019: "Can't tell you how many Mexican-Americans are SICK 👏 AND 👏TIRED 👏 of accidental Spanish misgendering."
