Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) defended this Wednesday (23) the fight against “hate speech” and the “banalization of evil” by opening the seminar Hate Speech and the Banalization of the Holocaust.
“In this historic period in Brazil, the fight against hate speech and the trivialization of evil is a responsibility that is imposed on the whole of society and also on Parliament, so that we are united and vigilant”, said the senator, at the end of the event.
In his speech, Pacheco cited the book Eichmann in Jerusalem — an account of the banality of evil, by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, to emphasize the importance of “we are always vigilant, so that things like what happened at that moment do not happen again.” The book describes the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Pacheco recalled the effort that the Senate and the Chamber have been making, with the approval of bills, to prevent social networks from being used to “banalize and spread evil”.
“This is the civic commitment that all of us Brazilians have, to not let Brazil become a country of hatred, division, hostility, radicalization, extremism. This is a responsibility that is demanded of the National Congress at this moment: to act very quickly so that this does not happen in the country,” he said.
Organized by the Israeli Confederation of Brazil (Conib), with support from the National Congress, the event was held in the Freitas Nobre Auditorium of the Chamber of Deputies.
*With information from the Senate Agency
