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haha the joke is that he is gay, which is a bad thing because otherwise it wouldn't be an insult. i am very smart
I don't get this perspective. Obviously being gay is a "bad thing" in these contexts because the person in question is vocally homophobic. The insult isn't being gay, the insult is being a hypocrite.
Do you actually know if he is gay, and therefore a hypocrite? Or are you just calling him gay because it would be funny?
Either way, the insult is still being gay. They wouldn't call his wife a beard if it wasn't a bad thing. Maybe you use homophobia even against a target you think is valid. I mean, if he is such a bad guy, then surely his actions are enough to use against him and not make up random grade school nonsense? Even if he was a gay hypocrite, that's irrelevant to why he's bad.
All of that is on top of the fact that by calling every homophobe gay, you are blaming homophobia on gay people.