Netflix is on a roll when it comes to shutting down crazy bigots and unhinged homophobes.
Earlier this week, the streaming giant took a swing at a troll on Facebook. Now, they’ve gone after an antigay politician from Brazil.
Flavio Bolsonaro is a businessman and conservative politician from Rio de Janeiro. The other day he tweeted that Netflix was interested in producing a movie about his father, Jair Bolsonaro.
Jair Bolsonaro is currently running for president on an uber-conservative platform and is, wait for it, a major homophobe. He vehemently opposes same-sex marriage and gay adoption. He is often referred by the press in such loving terms as “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobic,” and even a “Nazi.”
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Anyway, it should come as no surprise that his 36-year-old son Flavio also has a history of making antigay remarks, including telling a reporter in 2011 that “normal is to be heterosexual” and “I doubt that any father is proud to have a gay son.” And he recently voiced his support for his father’s homophobic political views.
This week, Flavio tweeted about the rumored Netflix movie about his homophobic old man:
Se a esquerda está apavorada com a série “Mecanismo”, imagina se eles soubessem que a @NetflixBrasil poderia estar interessada em fazer uma série sobre Bolsonaro.
— FlavioBolsonaro (@FlavioBolsonaro) March 27, 2018
That roughly translates to: “If the left is terrified by the ‘mechanism’ series, imagine if they knew that @NetflixBrasil might be interested in doing a series on Bolsonaro.”
To which the entertainment giant responded:
Você está louca, querida.
— Netflix Brasil (@NetflixBrasil) March 27, 2018
Translation: “You’re crazy, hun!”
A tipster adds in an email to Queerty:
“It’s important to mention that Netflix used “queridA”, with the A, which refers to women. It’s how gays address each other and it’s used in a very sarcastic/funny way.”
Caprice Goldberg
#NetflixDon’tPlay
#FlavioBolsonaroQuerida
#LookinFoolish
#OhSnap
CarrieV
Yassss! LOL, I read “Você está louca, querida” as “you crazy, gurrrlfrennn!”, as you certainly never call a guy by ‘querida’.
Thanks, Netflix, for being with the times. (And thanks to Queerty, for letting us know!)
GayEGO
Really Flavio, you are such a dishy queen!
Snicky
Querida did it me to me, LOL
mr.foreigner
I’m brazilian and the Bolsonaro’s family is a disgusting slice of our politics… and that is saying a lot, seen that our government is openly and famously absurdly corrupt. Thank you Netflix.
DuMaurier
Where I used to live I had a good friend from Brazil who often complained about the terrible state of politics there, and I told him they never should’ve gotten rid of the Braganzas.
That aside, why does it seem like conservatives these days keep so stupidly setting themselves up? Did this guy have any reason to think a movie was being made (it doesn’t seem likely)? So why did he go out and leave himself open to being slapped down?
Kangol
Jair Bolsonaro is about as horribly far right as you can get. Not only is he an avowed racist and homophobe, but he has repeatedly praised the possible return of the military dictatorship.
The scary thing is that because of the dismal state of Brazil’s politics these days, he isn’t totally out of the running for the presidential election this fall. Another major rival on the right, João Doria, the Mayor of São Paulo City, Brazil’s largest, is known as the Donald Trump of Brazil; <a href="“/>he even appeared on Brazil’s version of Celebrity Apprentice. He even claims to be self-made, like Trumpkin, except that his family is actually quite wealthy and patrician.
Hugo
Hi, I’m also Brazilian. Even though it’s nice that Netflix’s marketing team is really nice, there’s something you should know that helps to make sense of the situation. Bolsonaro and his sons, there’s another rat, are actually celebrating Netflix’s new production “The Mechanism”, which is the far-right version of Brazil’s recent history. It’s true that Brazil’s situation is so terrible that we may have this scumbag for president, but make no mistake, netflix is actually helping him to achieve that.
Kangol
Hugo, speaking of Brazilian shows, I watched 3%, the futuristic dystopian series that was beautifully produced. I enjoyed it a lot. I am looking forward to the new season, which starts on April 27 of this year.
I haven’t seen The Mechanism yet, but I’m curious to hear why you say it’s the far-right version of Brazil’s recent history. (It must be on some level if one of the Bolsonaros is praising it.) Are the writers conservative/right-wing? Do they mainly go after the Workers’ Party, Lula and Dilma? Do they deal with the horribly corrupt Michel Temer and that other one who launched the impeachment of Dilma but then had to resign from Brazil’s lower house because he was extremely corrupt? Just wondering.
RattyBee
But when it came to them producing Netflix originals in the arab world/middle east they chose to give “Comedian” Adel Karam his own special to spread his notorious homophobia and transphobia. Nice of them but they’re gonna need more than a bitchy tweet to get it together.
Dakotahgeo
My beloved partner for life is from Brazil and I’ve been among many Brazilians, the most wonderful people in the world. We share our time in both the EUA (USA) and Sao Paulo State. We hope to be married when tRUMPo and Administration gets their head out of their asses which should be by this November. A big “LOVE YOU” to Brazil LGBT people and we’ll see you soon!
Seb
Nope, there is nothing glorious about Netflix here. Let’s get the facts straight as you’re not telling the whole story. Netflix has just debuted the most bias, shameful series in which it twists recent facts in the Brazilian history to depict the main opposition party as the main root of all corruption and evil. Although it claims to be ‘loosely’ based on real facts, it is in fact a cringy compilation of fake news that has caused national uproar from the progressive movements in Brazil. This series can only boost the candidate who is currently second place – behind the one demonized in the series – in the presidential race happening late this year: Jair Bolsonaro, the most deplorable, homophobic, misogynist, fascist politician on earth. His son took on Twitter to mock electors who had been rightfully outraged by the show. Amidst so much hate and divide, a witty clapback is far from redeeming Netflix from tampering with the facts to influence somehow the election in a way that will not benefit minorities (and in Brazil minorities are far the huge majority).