Reminds me of when Kojima decided to call the weird evil guys in Death Stranding Homo Demons (technically Demens but... come on)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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I can hear Brace Belden's voice saying this
Rachel Jake vs. The Homo Nazi would be a pretty cool gumshoe novel.
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.