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So I'm actually Basque and I've gotta say this is a pretty specific scenario. This is part of a very reprehensible and long history of fighting against househo
by Levitz 5y ago
So I'm actually Basque and I've gotta say this is a pretty specific scenario.
This is part of a very reprehensible and long history of fighting against household terrorism, said history includes things such as torture on innocents or state terrorism.
On top of that, the National Assembly has a bad reputation for pulling this kind of abusive stunts specifically when it's about "praising terrorism" and I don't think I personally know a single person who actually supports this. This is probably why the Supreme Court reversed the decision.
On the other hand I do know many people who tell jokes about Carrero Blanco, or in even worse taste, Irene Villa, a journalist who lost both her legs in another attack with explosives from ETA. Remarkably Irene Villa is on record stating that she enjoys and supports jokes such as "What does Irene Villa do when her friends go and wax her legs? She varnishes hers".
I believe this last bit to be relevant because no doubt that could be considered brutally offensive, literally making fun of a disabled person, but there is nobody offended here, it is, instead, recognized that humor is an important way of coping with a difficult reality, and the history of Basque terrorism is indeed a difficult one.