Whenever the LatinX debate comes up, I will always see the fence-sitters like Moistcritikal try to play the anti-woke card of making fun of LatinX while simultaneously playing the woke card of blaming the creation on White People. Central Americans try to chalk up LatinX to being an invention by Whites, but it's all just a fucking cope. All of this LatinX shit has been pushed by people (particularly women) in their own countries for decades and now the second and third generation Latinos in the US have latched onto the idea and are trying to push it in corporate and academic environments in the West.
This isn't a White invention and while the idea has most likely been inspired by Marxists in the West, there is no way in hell that non-Hispanic Americans took the time to create new guidelines for Spanish when they don't even know the difference between the Cuban and Puerto Rican Flags. If the LatinX initiative wasn't pushed by Hispanic diversity hires, then it wouldn't have gone anywhere at all.
Not really. AFAIK it comes from chicanos, which where one of the first hispanic groups that started using an "x" for gender neutral, calling themselves chicanxs. In fact, they use the letter x as a political symbol.
Who are chicanos? Children born in America of mexican ascendence, they usually don't know anything about mexico and can't even speak proper spanish. They also like to play up the indigenous angle, to the point they may come off as the pre-hispanic equivalent of kangs (muh Aztlan).
That kind of ignorance make them obnoxious for actual latinos. Think about how the "oye primos" was recieved by actual mexicans.
Now, the kicker here is that they usually aren't well received by the "BIPOC" groups because most are too white