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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
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.
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.
some comments were too well coordinated to be individual users, it did sound like troll farm material.
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.
a little of both, remember some of the "reddit Reject/bans" are also the right wing, anti-lgbt trolls too that got shadowbanned.
…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.
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.
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
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.
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!
Snopes says it's fake so for now my money is still on Bubba being Arnold Palmer.
This is love
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
This is really great, thank you for sharing!
This thread has given me someone else and their instance to block. Thanks!