Mike Bloomberg staffer in hot water for homophobic crack about Pete Buttigieg

NY Post ^ | February 28, 2020 | 4:37pm | Carl Campanile

[Bonemaker]

That doesn’t sound like he is afraid of fruits.

[chopperk]

WHAT’S WRONG WITH EXPRESSING TRUE FEELINGS?

[CharlesWayneCT]

THe funny thing is, you can watch a youtube video that plays his own introduction, while a woman explains exactly what the sounds are;

and then go to the campaign page, and find they tell you to pronounce it differently.

But the first syllable is definitely boot, not butt.

[Candor7]

homophobic crack ......................>>>>>>>>>>>

That’s a definite problem on the Mayor Pete campaign.

The Boot edge-edge remedy is to roger your lodger.

That’s a crack too far.

[gibsonguy]

Yep Bloomberg and his campaign team should be SPLC’s hate group list now.

[PeterPrinciple]

“You have Biden, Sanders, Warren, Butti-Jay,” he said,

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I heard he said Buttplugg.

[hondact200]

thanks for fixing it to being Biblically correct.

[dp0622]

The campaign to make people not fear the real horrors they can inflict upon a society started in earnest in the 90s.

It was a very successful campaign.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Someone with a rudimentary command of the King’s English should explain to these dipsticks what a phobia is.

Dislike is not phobia.

I dislike Mayor Pete because...

He is NOT “married” to another man - no matter how much he plays tongue hockey with him in front of an audience

He is a socialist - where he parks his willie doesn’t change that

There is nothing I’ve seen that would lead me to believe that he is competent or qualified for the office the presidency

His blatant hypocritical “Christian” posturing is grossly offensive to me and I am not religious.

[M Kehoe]

“Crack?”

Buttigieg? Pronounced Booty Judge.

Chasen? Really?

LOL!

5.56mm

[Hugh the Scot]

I’m disgusted, not scared... And quite intolerant as well.

Don’t have to go for the slur though. I just go with “idiot” or “deranged”. If someone wants to pursue my reasoning, I generally take the time to explain biology to them.

[JimRed]

What’s homophobic about that? A phobia is an unwarranted or unreasonable fear. That sounds more like plain ol’ derision to me!

[JimRed]

He’s been Butt-gig to me since he first announced.

[9YearLurker]

Sophomoric, but not exactly “phobic”.

[Verginius Rufus]

Greek homos means "same." "Homosexual" is a modern invention and, from a purist's standpoint, a barbarism, since it combines a Greek root with a Latin root. Latin homo as in Homo sapiens is completely unrelated.

I don't know when "homophobia" was coined, maybe in the 1980s or 1990s, but it is a loaded term, intended to imply that there is something wrong with people who don't applaud homosexuality.

A better term for opposition to homosexuality might be miseuryproctia combining "mis-" (hate) "eury-" (wide) and "proktos" (anus)...there is an ancient Greek word euryproktia which the dictionary quaintly defines as "lewdness." But obviously "miseuryproctia" would never catch on.

[Publius]

"Homosexual" is a modern invention and, from a purist's standpoint, a barbarism, since it combines a Greek root with a Latin root.

Interesting point. The great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe heard someone refer to an "automobile," which in his era was simply a steam-powered tractor. It wasn't that Goethe couldn't believe that such a device could exist, he couldn't believe that anyone could be so sloppy as to mix a Greek and Latin root. He assured people that it should be called an "autokinetikon."

[Nateman]

Alfred E. Neuman Bootygas.

[kiryandil]

Buttgiggity

[campaignPete R-CT]

Spreading a rumour that Buttigig is a homo ... that’s too treacherous, even for us here at CREEP.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Modern Greek term for "automobile" is similar--avtokinito (which would be autokineton in English if we had avoided the Latin root for the second element). Likewise in Modern Greek, "television" is tileorasis.

(I don't speak Modern Greek, just happen to have a Greek-English dictionary handy.)