Activists from all over Brazil are calling for a national protest against federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro (PP-RJ) this Saturday (9), starting at 15pm, in the country's main capitals and cities. At the same time, fascists organize a pro-Bolsonaro event that should also take place this Saturday, starting at 10 am, in the free space of Masp, on Avenida Paulista.
The fact became public after the newspaper "Diário de São Paulo" publish an interview with young Marcio Galante, 23, who is identified as one of the organizers and who works as a seller of artifacts from the 1st and 2nd World War. In the report, the boy comes out in defense of Bolsonaro, whom he considers "a respected soldier who is being lynched by the media."
In the same interview, the group "Ultra Defesa" is mentioned, which is classified as ultra-right, nationalist, Christian and in favor of the family. The group has a blog, where it defends action against "communists and ABGLT". As if that weren't enough, on the social network Orkut, there is a community entitled "I'm a fan of Congressman Jair Bolsonaro", which has more than four thousand supporters.
In the community. all threads are terrible attacks on LGBT people. What is also impressive is that most of the participants are young people aged between 20 and 23 years old. But what does all this reveal? That this debauched and fascist stance by congressman Jair Bolsonaro is encouraging racist, homophobic and fascist groups to come out of the closet and go to the front line with an ideal of combating "evil", which in this case are homosexuals and black people.
These groups are feeling official. It's no surprise. From the moment that a federal deputy, who is in his fourth consecutive term and who in the last elections received more than 120 thousand votes, defends hatred against black people and homosexuals on national television, these fascist groups also believe they have the right to go to the streets to corroborate the hygienist discourse that preaches "pure race" and "morality".
In addition to Congressman Jair Bolsonaro's retrograde stance, this week two major newspapers came out in defense of the parliamentarian. They argued that they are against "Bolsonaro's racist and homophobic ideals", but that he should have the right to "freedom of expression to say what he thinks". They exchanged six for half a dozen. The problem is that newspapers also end up encouraging the intolerant.
It is shocking to learn that Bolsonaro is part of the Chamber's Human Rights Commission and that he works to block any progressive project. It is also disheartening to note that the rapporteur of his process in the Chamber of Internal Affairs is Eduardo da Fonte, Bolsonaro's colleague in the Progressive Party (PP).
Can you believe that Bolsonaro will be impeached? If, in 2008, he physically and verbally attacked the then federal deputy Maria do Rosário (PT-RS), now Minister of Human Rights, by calling her a "slut" and saying that "she wasn't even good for being raped", and was not revoked, it is unlikely to be revoked this time. What is speculated is his removal from the Human Rights Commission and some type of punishment, but it will certainly be too light for the nonsense he has already said.
