2024-09-05 20:13:10
People don’t read the news, journalists think that the low profitability of what they write is low frustration. They settle for the headlines and that’s how it goes. Not like before, when people bought the newspaper and didn’t put it down until they had even swallowed the short ones. That’s a far-fetched idea, but it’s been mentioned many times. Now, there is no time for anything, except for some politicians. The difference is that they are very selective when it comes to choosing headlines, preferably if they fit their ideas.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso needs less than a start to get going. In one of those interviews at the beginning of September that politicians announce that they are no longer on vacation, the president of Madrid announced what constitutes a diet of information. There are many saturated fats.
“Did you know that the Government invited 250,000 Mauritanians to Spain?” asked Susanna Griso on Antena 3. Attention should be drawn to that figure, because 4.7 million people live in the North African country. The guests would not be less than 5% of the population.
“From the headlines these days in all the media,” Ayuso quickly replied. It is equivalent to ‘I read it somewhere’. He didn’t say which ones, but it was easy to tell. It all came from a bogus headline from Vozpópuli: “Sánchez offers to regularize 250,000 illegal immigrants in Mauritania.”
How can the Government give papers to 250,000 immigrants from Mauritania when it is estimated that in Spain there are only 10,000 people born in that country? Let’s say it refers to people of other nationalities. How would Mauritania benefit?
Indeed, during his trip to Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia in August, Pedro Sánchez offered to launch a “circular migration” program through legal hiring of Africans of origin that they would return to their country after the end of the contract (and that they could return the following year). No one brought the figure on the trip. Who referred to her in the previous months It was Minister Elena Saiz, who said that the Spanish economy needs 250,000 migrants a year to sustain the welfare state.
The intention of Sánchez in the end was to make a generous offer in exchange for the governments of those countries to strengthen the control of their coasts and prevent the departure of canoes bound for Spain.
For the record, Alberto Núñez Feijóo said this week that he is in favor of hiring from abroad, although he claims that is not exactly what Sánchez said. No one has discovered the difference yet.
We have been debating for months about the measures being prepared by the Government to combat disinformation. This summer, it was confirmed how the extreme right flooded social networks with racist messages after the Mocejón crime to link the murder of an 11-year-old boy to foreigners. Something similar happened this summer in the United Kingdom with several days of racially motivated xenophobic riots that even provoked attacks against centers hosting asylum seekers.
Even if the person who committed the crime was an immigrant, which he was not, that should not have provoked a collective attack on the millions of foreigners living in Spain. No one would think of accusing all the Aragonese if one of them killed a minor in Zaragoza. Origin is considered the main factor only if the person committing the crime was born outside of Spain.
In that same interview, Díaz Ayuso refined the shot and spread suspicion about certain types of immigrants. He did it with a rather unusual argument. “The problem is that it’s a subject that has a lot of nuances and requires a lot of times, because not everything is black or white. People who come from America, from Latin America are not migrants. “We pray the same religion, we have grown up together, we have the same culture,” he said.
It is a fact that Spanish and Latin Americans speak the same language, but that they share “the same culture” more than discussed. The thing about “we’ve grown up together” is not very clear what it refers to. His intention when he says that Latin Americans are not immigrants – this is hard to deny if they come from another country – is to indicate foreigners who come from Africa or Arab countries. Those are the dangerous ones.
It is in this context that we must understand another fragment of Ayuso’s interview dedicated to immigration when she talks about the daughter she does not have (politicians have a lot of imagination). “If I have a daughter, I want her to go with her short skirt, if she wants, and live like they always did in their town, and not have a cultural clash because they don’t know We don’t know how to integrate them or because we haven’t done that with balance, and it turns out that there are towns in Spain that have undergone a cultural change.” And it is already known that there is no cultural clash with Latin Americans, but instead with the others.
The strange thing is that Ayuso, never one for coherence, attacked left-wing feminists for demanding that young women should be able to come home “alone and drunk” at night without being blamed for sexual assaults.
He did it in the Madrid Assembly in 2020 and he did it again at the Madrid PP Conference two years later: “Their way to see the lives of spoiled people who want to come alone and drunk, without responsibilities even in the light the worst decisions they make. .” “It shames most of us women who work every day to move our country forward.” Your other option might be to wear a short skirt, but not taste a drop of alcohol.
In the end, we will have to start thinking if the problem is not so much the hoaxes spread on social networks that only the people who are already convinced believe, but the politicians who use them in their messages.
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