He's whined about people saying gusano before, and had a debate on it being a slur I think. Pretty sure the playbook is to do an absurd satirical version of his own real beliefs so he could "own" the commies because they took satire seriously.
"Slur" kind of implies that it's referring to an inherent characteristic. It'd definitely an insult, but it's closer to calling a landlord a leech than it is to calling a black person the n-word.
I see that, but I think it's more of an ethnic context than an ethnic component. "Gusano" as an insult originated in the context of the Cuban Revolution, from some Cubans calling other Cubans traitors to the cause. It's insulting someone's politics and political actions, not their ethnicity. No one calls Cubans who support the Cuban government or apolitical Cubans "gusanos."
"Kulak" has a similar history, and I don't see any credible suggestion that it's an ethnic slur.
This reads like satire
Wait, is it not?
He's whined about people saying gusano before, and had a debate on it being a slur I think. Pretty sure the playbook is to do an absurd satirical version of his own real beliefs so he could "own" the commies because they took satire seriously.
I mean, it is a slur. It's just that not all slurs are created equally.
"Slur" kind of implies that it's referring to an inherent characteristic. It'd definitely an insult, but it's closer to calling a landlord a leech than it is to calling a black person the n-word.
I mostly agree, but there is an ethnic component to gusano that doesn’t exist for most of the other insults we use.
Like we don’t call the anti-communist people from former Soviet countries gusanos, although we probably should.
I see that, but I think it's more of an ethnic context than an ethnic component. "Gusano" as an insult originated in the context of the Cuban Revolution, from some Cubans calling other Cubans traitors to the cause. It's insulting someone's politics and political actions, not their ethnicity. No one calls Cubans who support the Cuban government or apolitical Cubans "gusanos."
"Kulak" has a similar history, and I don't see any credible suggestion that it's an ethnic slur.