I was researching Nicaragua and he noticed Daniel Ortega on my screen and said “when I lived in Nicaragua we weren’t allowed to talk about him” I said “he’s done good stuff for Nicaragua and he said “he’s corrupt and pays people to run against him and lose,” “he supports Russia pillaging Ukraine” “my American family member had more freedom than us, so we moved to the here,” then I annoyedly did a bunch of research to prove him wrong (and Wikipedia is a terrible source on it) then I didn’t have any time to tell him anything more. (Btw of course he’s white, white people only make up 17% of the Nicaraguan population) IDK if gusanos can be non-Cuban, but if they can then that he is.
Someone called me a racist for saying someone was a Gusano(they were arguing in favor of the gangsters and landlords in Cuba 1950s) was I actually in the wrong for saying that(is it like a slur?) or were they just mad bc they are poorly coping with the Cuban Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
I don’t think it’s a slur, im pretty sure Badempanada has a vid on it, though
It’s definitely a slur, just like calling someone a snitch is a slur. It’s not a racial slur tho.
I disagree, Snitch is not a slur. That’s like saying the word liar is a slur. A snitch just tells secrets. Anyone on Earth can be a snitch. Slurs need to have an intended demographic for the insult. Racial slurs exist, sexuality slurs exist, and Gusano definitely has a sorta ethnic leaning towards it. It’s about people from Latin America, and I wouldn’t call an Irish or Indian reactionary a Gusano, I feel like it only means what it means when it’s racially/ethnically involved. So that makes me a lil uncomfortable to just say it like there’s no issue with it.
It is not a racial slur but it is a slur, as it is any word intended as an insult or to shame. It is not a racial slur because it has nothing to do with race but with the way the person acts, you obviously wouldn’t call an Irish a gusano because he doesn’t speak spanish, you would call him a worm. The word gusano literally just means a worm, as in the animal or as in having no respect bc of his actions just like it does in english. Also it’s weird that you capitalize the initial letter.
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That’s why I feel a lil off about it, it sorta denotes a racial/ethnic element to it
we should use it more broady, a word for traitor.
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Not necessarily, couldn’t you theoretically call say and anti-communist whose family is from East Germany or Ukraine a gusano? (Not that people usually would)
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I will make sure to call white traitors as such in the future then
I do it all the time for white, asian etc., some other people too. We should call all gusanos gusanos.