The president of the Republic, Gabriel Boricparticipated this Friday in the inauguration of the Third Young Future Congress 2022, a moment that he took advantage of to reflect on the prejudices that exist in current politics.
To delve into the subject, the President took up his personal experience by indicating that on social networks people with a right-wing tendency call him “merluzo”, a nickname of Spanish origin that means “foolish or stupid”
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“I was very surprised that one of the insults that has been installed to refer to me is ‘Merluzo’, which seems to be a Spanish meaning that was said in some Spanish program and a sector took it and then on social networks I they shout ‘merluzo'”, indicated Boric in his speech.
He also commented on a situation that happened to him when he arrived at the former National Congress -place where the event is held-. “Now we were just entering and a lady shouted ‘hake, mamarracho’ and I thought that when that lady opens her social networks, surely she must have pure interactions that reinforce those same prejudices and that same opinion and thus, likewise, she surely votes Reject ” , held.
In this line, he added that “I do not say this in a bad way, because also the other way around, those who today, for example, support the government, surely in their social networks a series of interactions appear against other people and with very little self-criticism regarding to what others do and that’s wrong, that’s wrong.
Under this slogan, the President called for reflection by young people. “We have to find ourselves among those who think differently, we have to recover, as I said Guido (Girardo), the society. And there young people are fundamental. You are the ones who break the circle of self-confirming prejudice by hanging out with different people.”
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Reflection on the sayings of Minister Jackson
The head of state took the opportunity to reflect on the comments made by the Segpres minister, George Jacksonabout the “difference in values with the generation that precedes them” on the Twitch platform.
When the president of Renovación Nacional was present, Francisco Chahuanthe President indicated that “I want to tell the senator that I fully agree with him on one thing, we need to learn with humility from the experiences of those who preceded us, from their mistakes and their successes. And it is important that those of us who are today in institutional positions, of power, we are able to open the doors, because a problem that the generation before mine had is that they had many problems in finding, in being able to open those doors, and that in turn generated another problem that my generation, that we were in the mobilizations of 2001, 2006 and 2011, we somehow formed a little alone, because there was no dialogue between those who preceded us”.
