which is why i want to further the discussion.

i get all that you're saying about the difference in Latino/Hispanic, but you're also throwing in Latinx (which from what I understand is to counteract sex and gender issues derived from the use of the masculine / feminine delineations in Latina/Latino), and that's what i'm trying to have a discussion about.

i see how "Latin" is problematic in the sense that it's originally the name of a dead language, but i don't see how it's problematic considering that all of these words you've described share the same etymology. "Latin" doesn't have to *just* be the word that describes a dead language--why couldn't it also be the desexualized denonym for the people of Latin America?