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No. The former minister of Finance of Japan Taro Aso (leader of the ultra-conservative Liberal Democratic Party) declared at the beginning of 2013: “We must change the medical system so that many of the terminally ill patients who use ‘government money’ for their expensive treatments die soon. ”. Simultaneously, the owner of the organic food company Whole Food (WF), John Mackey, described fascist
to President Obama for his health reform law. Addendum: Mackey is co-author of conscious capitalism (sic), head book of the Tec de Monterrey.
Two. Mere neoliberal cruelty, in both cases? Let’s see. In 2018, in the Catalan neighborhood of Marina del Port, the young youtuber Kangua Ren handed out 20 euros to a beggar, and Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste. This will help you clean your teeth
he told him. Minutes later, after ingesting them, the unfortunate man doubled over in pain. Kangua (or Reset, 1.1 million subscribers) recorded the scene and uploaded the video, generating profits of 2,100 euros.
Three. The criticism against the honorable Mr. Taro Aso and the talkative Mackey came to nothing, since both have power and are multimillionaires. Instead, the video of youtuber caused a wave of outrage on the Internet. Thus, in 2022, a Barcelona judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison, and to pay 20 thousand euros in compensation for moral damages.
Four. Other cases. In April 2017, during the government of the Argentinian-Calabrian mobster Mauricio Macri (2015-19), the Minister of Transportation Guillermo Dietrich described great goal
the brutal repression of workers who blocked a strategic highway in Buenos Aires. And days later, after the rape and murder of Micaela García (21 years old), the official Maia Ferrua mocked the crime, alluding to militancy. Kirchnerist
of the victim. Data that trolls libertarians amplified on the networks, with their classics HA HA HA
(with capital letters).
Five. Let’s continue. In August 2019, protected by the new code of the city of Buenos Aires for demoralize
At vendors, the police pepper-sprayed a young man selling salami sandwiches, as well as kicking and confiscating his merchandise. Despite the complaints and recorded videos, the mainstream media diverted attention, and chose to interview another young man who, near the place, was selling homemade bread and donuts. This helps me pay for college photocopies.
declared the student. Consequently, the first young man (black from Senegal) was locked in a cell, while the other (white from Buenos Aires) was presented on television panels as an example of entrepreneur
.
Six. Let’s continue. A month later, the candidate for provincial deputy of La Rioja, Pablo Yapur (macrista), viralized a message saying: “I’m not going to help any fucking poor person with even a 10-peso coin, let them shit themselves with hunger, let them shit themselves with cold, that they sleep in the squares, I don’t give a damn, because all these dirty blacks, drug addicts, lazy people, are the ones who have gone to vote,” etc.
Seven. Meanwhile, a presidential candidate impossible
(sic), Javier Milei, circulated on the air and networks exalting violence and causing euphoria among young people dissatisfied with the government of the satyr Alberto Fernández. Time when Patricia Bullrich (current Minister of Security of Milei), appeared in videos driving a sports car that ran over “warm, narcos and kukas (Kirchnerists)”. So other candidates, in order not to be left behind, began to compete with each other to see who excluded the most, took away rights, subsidies, privatized companies, or public sectors such as education, health, etc.
Eight. Time, in short, in which Macri, emulating the honorable Mr. Taro Aso and the gringo Mackey, questioned the health restrictions due to the covid pandemic. Let those who have to die die
he said.
Nine. At first glance, the cases referred to could be classified as institutional or individual cruelty. However, the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina, professor of ethics at the University of Valencia, maintains that the contempt and hatred of the poor goes further, and has a name: aporophobia.
Ten. In his book Aporophobia: the rejection of the poor. A challenge to democracy (Paidós, 2017), Dr. Cortina plunges the scalpel, proving that in modern democracies aporophobia makes a certain sector of the population invisible, without the need to eliminate the physical body, since what is eliminated is the identity body. And the vector that inoculates aporophobia in society is hate speech.
Eleven. Machiavelli said: A prince will never lack arguments to excuse failure to keep his promises.
. But 500 years later, Prince Milei is fulfilling what he promised. In other words, in addition to being cruel and aporophobic, the liberticide of freedom would suffer from alexithymia, a term that in the medical clinic allows us to investigate those who resort to action and destroy everything, to avoid or solve conflicts.
