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DISCLAIMER:This joke is homophobic. "Trump being embarrassed for people thinking he had a gay relationship makes him homophobic. Affirming that embarrassment by making it the butt of the joke makes the joke homophobic"
this article explains it well: https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5082/the-dangerous-stereotype-of-the-self-hating-homophobe
Trump being embarrassed for people thinking he had a gay relationship makes him homophobic
Affirming that embarrassment by making it the butt of the joke makes the joke homophobic
Hope that helps.
I see it now, thanks for explaining!
I know this is a meme space, but since there are quite a few comments about whether this is homophobic or not, I’ll leave this article here. Judge for yourself.
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5082/the-dangerous-stereotype-of-the-self-hating-homophobe
Thanks for the link, It was a good read!
No problem
This is really great, thank you for sharing!
Making fun of homophobic people for being homophobic is not itself homophobic
People need to lighten the fuck up
You mean gay people should lighten up about being made the butt of a joke about trump? Fuck right off.
Holy shit this comment section is either all bots or there's a whole section of lemmy that goes out of its way to deliberately ignore the comedic irony of this.
I hate it because it's ai. You hate it because it's "homophobic??"
As if portraying someone who hates lgbtq people as being lgbtq is anything more than making fun of them for hating lgbtq people.
…Isn’t it the same thing?
It’s obviously AI, so it pokes fun at Trump’s shameless embrace of AI misinformation in the same way it pokes at his homophobia. It’s crude, like he is; that’s the point.
Been seeing this line lately. I do think it’s a Russian internet research agency approved line for sure. I called Putin and Trump gay for each other and a bunch of hexbear accounts called it homophobic in unison.
The fediverse was bound to attract the attention to troll factories. That's why its devs need to consider making it more resilient, but unfortunately I get more of an impression they just want a second reddit.
some comments were too well coordinated to be individual users, it did sound like troll farm material.
a little of both, remember some of the "reddit Reject/bans" are also the right wing, anti-lgbt trolls too that got shadowbanned.
wait this is AI?
You think Trump would cuddle and hold hands with anyone?? 😀
I don't know, I'm not American, news here disort Trump to make he look good (Brazil btw), my dad is a non-American MAGA now man
It ended up being a lonely kid on the spectrum who lives at home, can't drive and thinks he has a "real job" walking dogs for his book club. Sad and funny.
He refused therapy. Dbzero admins too. I'm almost as disappointed as their parents.
There's a lot of heated statements in here but I don't see the homophobia in this post unless there's more context. In this isolated post, it seems like they're just extending the Epstein release about "Bubba".
I won't take away from anyone who finds it offensive though. You're completely right to feel that way.
Also, it's not homophobic to say that homophobes being gay on their private lives, especially if they work to pass policy that makes it worse for gay people, are bad people. It isn't about them being gay. It's about them enjoying a thing while trying to punish others for enjoying that same thing.
The homophobia is that the "joke" here is "hahah trump is GAY with BILL CLINTON!"
Gayness isnt a bad thing. Using it to be insulting to trump means in that instance its perceived as a bad thing. Thats the homophobia.
Trump is an awful person who has done awful things. "Haha gaaay" isnt useful or funny when the man is a serial rapist, and now murderer
Gayness isnt a bad thing. Using it to be insulting to trump
The insult is the hypocrisy, not the gayness.
I can only speak for myself in detecting homophobia and I'm not always the best judge. I don't want to deny your experience either, I'll just say what I'm seeing:
There were leaks earlier that someone texted about Trump gave a blowjob or something to someone called Bubba. Then people speculated it was either Bill Clinton or even the nickname of a horse (I think people were just reaching for extremes in the memes).
Assuming the leak was real and person that sent the message was real and that Bubba was the nickname for Bill Clinton. I think people are just putting out fakes of the evidence of that?
I don't see anyone saying it's not "manly" to be gay or that being gay is undesirable?
Like I said, if I twist myself a bit a little too I think I can see the "haha gay people" angle. I just don't think I see it, maybe it's because I would like to think homophobia is so played out I would think they'd make a better joke or that secretly gay politicians is so common now.
That doesn't mean you're wrong though for sure, just because I can't see it doesn't mean the author's intent isn't there.
The implication is that it would be embarrassing for him to have had a gay relationship.
Trump not wanting people to think that he's gay is the other half of the homophobia, and by making that the butt of the joke, we've affirmed it.
I think I can see where you're coming from in that way.
I'm not gay so I'm not as sensitive to these jokes. I am Asian, however, and I dislike "Uncle Roger" for what I think is similar to this. The butt of the joke is that Asian people speak funny. So I think it's similar to what you're saying. The butt of the joke is that it's embarrassing to have a gay relationship.
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