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.
Comrade and I met a Nicaraguan gusano at a BLM rally whose family apparently still hold political and financial power over swathes of Central America. He was an actual goddamn psychopath. He said he was there because he was interested in the “other side”, and the only thing he was interested in was accumulating as much power as possible. When my comrade asked him why he was going to school in the states he just replied “Power.” He said the contras were heroes and he wanted to be in the position to control death squads like his father did who “defended his property from rebels”. Just deranged as fuck.
TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish “from his nanny”.
And that word was “gusano”.
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jesus christ
Sometimes it’s nice seeing fascists and capitalists being so honest and direct about the reason they do what they do: class interests. No beating around the bush with concern trolling, no religious/racial/cultural/ideological/“freedom and democracy” nonsense, no, just straight up power and money.
Gusano works in any LA country
Works really for any global south country reactionaries flee from.
More like global south countries that have had decently successful socialist movement since most of them say something like “I fled a “dictator””
Doesn’t have to even be socialist, or progressive, just that they appeal to the West by trashing their home countries and blame the poor living conditions on the people rather than the Imperialists who are exploiting them.
Not really, because then that would apply to many third world immigrants who are legitimately fleeing poverty, violence or lack of opportunities, but who are also apolitical due to lack of education, and who might have had legitimately bad capitalist comprador regimes back at home.
It’s not even worth it most of the time to try and debate expats. They obviously have some insight that an outsider will never have, but they will also use that fact to claim the high ground on any and all arguments. You Gotta be very careful, especially if you have an audience.
Gusano is a state of mind
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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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
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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However, if a white person is a traitor to the revolution, that term is not used.
I do it all the time for white, asian etc., some other people too. We should call all gusanos gusanos.
Should have asked what his family does for a living. The fact that a Nicaraguan even possesses the means to just up sticks to the US says a lot.
Gusano is such a good term it is universal.
Lmao of course he’s white. The reasons he has to be pissed off are very very bad ones lmao.
