California governor tries to backpedal on woke positions
California Governor Gavin Newsom tried backtracking on his radical Left positions last week, earning himself a rare “fact-check” from CNN.
‘Latinx’
On a recent episode of his podcast “This Is Gavin Newsom,” the governor ridiculed the use of “Latinx,” a woke term that is supposedly meant to include Hispanics who identify as neither Latino nor Latina. A survey found that only 2% of Hispanics use the term “Latinx”, 40% find the label offensive, 30% say they would not vote for a party or candidate who used the term, and 89% prefer not to be called “Latinx.”
“Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx,” Newsom told conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “I just didn’t even know where it came from. What are people talking about?”
On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Andrew Kaczynski pointed out that Newsom himself has used the term “Latinx” multiple times. CNN played four clips of Newsom saying the word, one of which showed the governor criticizing those who wanted to ban the term.
“Those aren’t the only times that we found that use, and he also used it a lot on social media,” Kaczynski told anchor Erin Burnett. “That is a lot of use of Latinx by him for somebody who said that nobody in that office ever used that phrase.”
Men in women’s sports
On his podcast, Newsom also claimed to oppose allowing men in women’s sports.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that,” he told Kirk. “It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair.”
“It turns out in 2014, years before I was governor, there was a law established that established the legal principles that allow trans athletes in women’s sports,” Newsom added. “It is an issue of fairness, and I think Democrats have lost that.”
Yet as Kaczynski again pointed out, Newsom—who was California’s lieutenant governor at the time—celebrated that law. In 2017, California funded transgender surgeries for inmates and, as governor in 2020, Newsom went a step further and allowed trans-identifying male felons to be placed in female prisons, leading to several instances of rape.
