Very different when put in context, or at least I hope
It does sound a little like a Nick Mullen moment but that’s definitely not what he meant lol. I’m not Venezuelan, but I’m a Spanish speaker from latam and I’ve almost never heard anyone use “homo” to mean gay by itself. He was just using it in the taxonomical sense. Not to mention that Maduro is pretty pro-LGBTQ and has wanted to push a more inclusive line in Venezuela but has, if anything, been held back by the rest of the party.
Ah, phew! Good to hear!
A bit this I think Homo Sovieticus?
Homo Sovieticus (cod Latin for ‘Soviet Man’) is a pejorative term coined to describe the average conformist individual in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.
I can hear Brace Belden’s voice saying this
Rachel Jake vs. The Homo Nazi would be a pretty cool gumshoe novel.
homo SSapien
Linguists have had a big breakthrough in modern maoist-standard english
How are people trying to cancel him here for saying this? This is funny
Apparently, some bad-faithers are miscontruing as an antisemitic insult, due to Milei self-describling himself of allegedly being of Jewish descent…
How that doesn’t refer to his economic, foreign and cultural policy, let alone, IDK…
cant even call a pro-genocide crakkker a hitlerite anymore because of woke
There was a long and huge campaign promoted by George Bush and Obama against Venezuela and Chávez using LGBTQ+ groups and NGOs. I don’t believe Chávez was homophobic, but he simply didn’t do much to help or improve the situation of LGBTQ+ people, and the abuses of the police and some of the more reactionary and conservative Chavista politicians continued with homophobic policies.
Then, when Maduro was elected, things changed for the better. Maduro, personally, is pro-LGBTQ+ and started pushing for more LGBTQ+ policies within the PSUV. A few days before Guaido’s attempted legislative coup, Maduro met with LGBTQ+ groups and promised to promote same-sex marriage, adoption and the protection of LGBTQ+ people. But then Guaido fucked up and the attempt to reform the constitution was suspended due to the political instability at the time. And as soon as Maduro accepted LGBTQ+ people into government, the US stopped sending funding to NGOs.
Almost no one uses homo as a slur in spanish or portuguese, in this case Homo literally just comes from Homo Sapiens. Some people (Gusanos who mostly are racist and LGBTQphobic themselfs) claim that Maduro called Milei a homophobic slur recently, but he just called Milei a Pendejo, Asqueroso, Neonazi and Sociopath.
lol
Maduro bringing the fire.
:homo-nazi: when
it sounds crazy, but who am I to argue with the science?
An immortal science, no less
New inventions in the world of Chavism-Mullenism
What if Maduro were Chinese
It was well intentioned, and I think most people reading his comment in context will probably be OK with it. But I think it’s also one of those things that may be linguistically clever and technically not a slur but also just massively unwise. Like referring to a politician known for their spending cuts as “removedrdly”. There’s just better synonyms out there that aren’t going to cause a media shitstorm.
Update, I hadn’t realized that would be filtered out here. In any case I’m referring to a synonym of miserly. Just look at the list of synonyms for the obvious problem one.
I don’t mean to shield him from all criticism, and seeing as I’m cishet I’m sure it could be my own blind spot, but I seriously doubt that he was trying to do some kind of homophobic wordplay. We almost never use “homo” by itself to talk about gay people in Spanish. Maduro is relatively pro-LGBTQ and has historically been to the left of his party and the country as a whole on queer issues. I think there’s a bit of danger in mapping English connotations of latin words to the same latin words being used in another language, because the connotations really aren’t the same.
He’s a Spanish speaker, should he also watch out when he says “black” because it’s a bad word in English?
foiled by the slur filter! good job slur filter
Proud of our strong filter. It’s the strongest filter, isn’t it?
But I also have no idea what word that was. It feels weird to be thinking so hard about it but “…rdly” just gets me. I have no idea what word could come before that and be a slur
I guess my slur-dar is not very good
N-word, ending with a. I don’t think the two words are actually related, but the -rdly form is so archaic it’s only used by people who want to say the slur part.
If Maduro was a politician from Alabama, I would understand your criticism
Intelligence is knowing what that word is and what it means.
Wisdom is never ever using it.
What’s that meme that’s like “I learned fluent French so instead of being someone unable to speak French, I became someone unwilling to speak French”
That but with the whole English language
Maduro go on Cum Town
