Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar’s anti-gay slur provides teachable moment

It starts with the word, because the word matters. “TU ERE MARICON,” is what Yunel Escobar chose to wear on his eye-black during a baseball game on Saturday. The Toronto Blue Jays aren’t the Yankees, and have descended into their now-traditional August-September graveyard, but people still watch the games. There are cameras.

Since maricon can apparently be translated into “faggot” — or can simply mean effeminate, or weak, or be a blank term of derisive endearment — the club suspended Escobar for three games. At an apologetic news conference in New York on Tuesday, Escobar said, “It’s a word used often within teams. It’s a word without a meaning.” A few minutes later, asked what he meant by the message, he said, “It depends on how you say it, and who you say it to.”

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