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idkimnotreal · 2 years ago

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anti-racist reaction is so strongly and utterly universal in brazil (in response to attacks against vini jr in spain) that i reckon racism is going to be eradicated in 50 years or so just like smallpox (it’s a virus of the mind, so to speak). it’s incredible. there’s no one in brazil, not in its whitest regions, where whites number up to 80% of the population, that will say in public that an anti-racist protest is reverse racism (they might claim it’s a waste of time, but not that the initiative is misled. eradicating an opinion in public, making it shameful, is the first step to eradicating it completely) or the sort. just amazing.

#racism #race #the fact it's happening in football stadiums just amazes me #football is one of the most conservative mainstream cultures in brazil #anti-racism is so common sense at this point that it's embedded in all parts of society #like you know people were complaining about germans protesting against homophobia in qatar #i do believe in some degree that what the german team did comes from a certain superiority complex #that their culture is the model culture #but that's not to say that their actions were wrong #and it WOULD be nice if all teams did it and for the right reasons #but there's people defending what happens in qatar and other parts of the middle east with lgbtq populations #this is inconceivable with racism in brazil and parts of europe #the slightest push will get the strongest unified and cohesive reaction from all society #interesting as fuck and amazing #how did brazil do it? you ask #we were the last to abolish slavery #the answer is education and law #a racist criminal imprisoned for the crime of racism which is written in the constitution by the way #cannot bail his way out of jail #and schools are obliged to teach about the horrors of slavery explicitly and african history as well #in 2019 homophobia was made a crime though the racism law by the supreme court of brazil but there's no law for it specifically yet #(they ruled that it's as hideous a crime as racism)#but it's theoretically therefore one of the harshest anti homophobic laws in the world and its consequences are just starting to be seen #i'm excited

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