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October 2009
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Written by Olavo de Carvalho
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Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:16 |
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The other day a Brazilian friend asked me if I had noticed that, within a single generation, forms of conduct described by psychiatry as neurotic or even psychotic have become accepted as normal. Not just normal - I responded - but normative, laudable, and obligatory. The next steps are: (a) marginalize and criminalize every reaction of revulsion, (b) make revulsion psychologically impossible, expelling it from the repertoire of conduct admitted by society.
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Yet, on the other hand, there is also no question that the author, probably influenced by the hateful religious establishments (all of which the unquestionably the source of hate and contention between people of different cultures) is also demonstrating by his absurd views in the above article that he probably hates (or at best is strongly against) homosexuals.
Naturally hate crimes based on race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation are quite small when compared with the huge number of "regular crimes" against the average population; for Brazil is the nation where crime is rampant, out of control - the source of great embarrassment for a nation who has the self-delusional audacity to compare itself with the civilized countries of Western Europe or North America. Yet, hate crimes of any type (or source) should necessarily be viewed in isolation, and such numbers to be compared against their peers in other world locations. As such, to claim that there is a high incidence of hate crimes in Brazil in not only CORRECT, but possibly insufficient, unless of course you were to compare Brazil with far MORE primitive places like Iran, Congo, or Myanmar…
Consequently, Mr. Olavo de Carvalho should perhaps refrain from making idiotic claims (thus displaying his own hate towards that group) and perhaps consider concentrating his valuable time as a "newspaper correspondent" to disseminate and attack the horrific conditions of our compatriots, living in squalor and/or fear of rampant violent crime within the large Brazilian unban centers!