Which "community" are you talking about?

As I said above, I have yet to hear anyone actually say Latinx in Spanish, nor have I heard anyone outside academia use it, in English or Spanish.

It strikes me that coming up with these new words is something that a small community of academics does, because it gives the impression of progress, while not actually requiring any actual change, effort or risk from the participants.

The progressive movement in America has failed to protect the people for generations now. It's been one defeat after another for us, and now, between the climate disaster and lawless Fascists in government, we're getting close to the endgame.

And yet our supposed best and brightest have turned away from dealing with the desperate systemic issues that literally threaten the viability of the planet, to word games and identity politics.

Reading articles list this fills me with despair, to be honest. Our planet is on fire, the people doing it are empowered, and the opposition is nowhere. When it all collapses, academia is going to say, "Well, we did all we could! We shared the right Tweets, used the right pronouns for everyone, and shamed people who didn't use the words we invented! What more could we do?"