Makin has never said that he condones homophobia unironically - when he did it was ironic. He does that. Is that good? Not really, he's a figurehead, he should watch his words more. Do people like that he does that? No.

There is a valid point some people almost reached here, the HSD allows slurs and ironic bigotry, moderation does have to somehow tell apart the allowed forms of bigotry (e.g. saying your friend is gay for liking oneshot) from the banned forms. This has lead to problems before: there have been several people in the history of the server who were banned after years of vaguely swaying between irony and sincere homophobia/transphobia/racism. But thing is, this is not because of Makin's actions, it is because he gave power to the people that it is like this. The server would be rid of all toxicity if he did control it personally. But it would just be endless Worth the Candle discussion.