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Excerpt: "Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro's government intends to use the Brazilian president's hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazo
by privateSFacct 7y ago
Excerpt:
"Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro's government intends to use the Brazilian president's hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact."
My question is why would the government even put slides like this together. Who writes things like "We will use hate speech to implement predatory projects to devastate the environment".
Normally govts focus on things like we want to develop X area and give two shxxts about the environment. But they don't go out of there way to come up with evil powerpoints.
- coliveira 7y agoBolsonaro's government is run by military people, and this is the language that they commonly use. This is not the first time that we see Bolsonaro framing certain groups in Brazil as "threats" that need to be "contained" or "destroyed".
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoBolsonaro comes from a time when the country was run by a military dictatorship, and he was part of the military that terrorized the people. He has said openly of a woman who was tortured that “they didn’t go far enough”. He’s truly an evil person and he doesn’t hide it.
- yellowapple 7y agoYeah, that part seems fishy to me. Like, I guess I've seen weirder things in the real world, but that just seems way too cartoonishly evil to be real.
- jimmux 7y agoYeah, what's next? A Bond villain running Russia? A racist blow-hard capitalist running America? Please...
- yellowapple 7y agoAlright, fair point. Makes me wonder if the world really did end in 2012 and we're living in a very-poorly-written video game attempting to preserve it.
- ginvok 7y agoOr something equivalent of Game of thrones 8th season
- einpoklum 7y agoThey probably wrote something like "We must actively denounce the primitivist Luddite elements in Amazon villages, to disintegrate the opposition to economic development of those areas."