Latin X at CUW?
Latin X sounds like a great opportunity for advanced study of the language of the Caesars and the Church that you take right after passing Latin IX. It is apparently a “thing” (res?) at Concordia University Wisconsin.
On September 19, 2022, this blogpost was published by our synod university: “Seven Ways to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.” At the end of the article, we read:
“I suggest you listen to Latino USA. This is a nationally syndicated public radio program distributed by NPR that brings together a diverse set of Latinx voices to shed light on the current cultural, political, and social issues impacting the Latinx community and our nation today.”
Of course, Wikipedia cannot be trusted as a source, as they are giving a phony definition of Latin X:
“Latinx has become commonly used by activists in higher education and the popular media who seek to advocate for individuals on the borderlines of gender identity.[28] Herlihy-Mera calls Latinx “a recognition of the exclusionary nature of our institutions, of the deficiencies in existent linguistic structures, and of language as an agent of social change”, saying, “The gesture toward linguistic intersectionality stems from a suffix endowed with a literal intersection—x.”[34] Some commentators, such as Ed Morales, a lecturer at Columbia University and author of the 2018 book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, associate the term with the ideas of Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist. Morales writes that “refusal to conform to male/female gender binaries” parallels “the refusal to conform to a racial binary”.[9]: 61
Scharrón-del Río and Aja (2015) have traced the use of Latinx by authors Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, Jaime Géliga Quiñones, Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, and Adriana Gallegos Dextre.[46] The term has also been discussed in scholarly research by cultural theorist Ilan Stavans on Spanglish[47] and by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher Gonzalez on Latinx super heroes in mainstream comics and Latinx graphic novels such as United States of Banana.[48][49][50] The term and concept of Latinx is also explored by Antonio Pastrana Jr, Juan Battle and Angelique Harris on LBGTQ+ issues.[37] Valdes also uses the term in research on black perspectives on Latinx.[51][52]
A 2020 analysis found “that community college professional organizations have by and large not adopted the term Latinx, even by organizations with a Latinx/a/o centered mission”, although some academic journals and dissertations about community colleges were using it.[53]”
So, of course, this is not what Latin X means. There is no way one of our synodical institutions would be engaging in Orwellian linguistic cultural Marxist agitprop as a means of inculcating an antibiblical worldview regarding human sexuality. Why, that would be something that the suspended Dr. Gregory Schulz might say. So, obviously that can’t be true.
So Latin X must actually be advanced study in the Lingua Latina.
Optime! I’m all for that! Maybe next, CUW can also offer Greek X, Hebrew X, and German X!
Thanks CUW, and keep up the good work fostering a biblical Lutheran identity and rigorous classical studies. As the kids say, O Tempora, O mores!