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.

Rachel Jake vs. The Homo Nazi would be a pretty cool gumshoe novel.

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.

Apparently, some bad-faithers are miscontruing as an antisemitic insult, due to Milei self-describling himself of allegedly being of Jewish descent...

How "Homo Nazi" doesn't refer to his economic, foreign and cultural policy, let alone image, IDK...

I literally didnt even realize that when I wrote it plus like, the actual information is right there in the screenshot so the fact that people took it as as Maduro calling him gay came as a complete shock to me because I only thought of the scientific term.

An immortal science, no less

What if Maduro were Chinese

He's a Spanish speaker, should he also watch out when he says "black" because it's a bad word in English?

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.

If Maduro was a politician from Alabama, I would understand your criticism

foiled by the slur filter! good job slur filter

Intelligence is knowing what that word is and what it means.

Wisdom is never ever using it.

my favorite old cth bit was people linking to his banned twitter with what does Milo have to say about this?

He converted?