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.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 2 months ago

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

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

foiled by the slur filter! good job slur filter

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

It predates the slur from an unrelated etymology, but it's primary use in the year of our Lord 2024 is to avoid slur filters with """plausible""" deniability. Not that online platforms regularly police these things.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Wisdom is never ever using it.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

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