Hooligans who make King Pig true
"Only Vox can clean up what's there"Vox will clean house." Thus, quite naturally, employing two languages within the same sentence—one to satisfy the loose ends coming from Palma and the other to remind himself a little of the one he speaks every day—Esteve Sureda, spokesperson for the far-right party in Manacor, referred to the municipality's need for cleanliness. He wasn't talking, however, about papers, trash, overflowing containers, or abandoned street furniture. He was talking about people. In any case, the conflict, the problem, and the row are theirs, those who made the video recalling "our customs" and "our godfathers" without hesitation to speak a language they never spoke. What, for him, should be "Mallorcan identity"? The far-right's cynicism is outrageous. The alarms, however, are all going off because of racism and the The xenophobia of this party, which shamelessly replicates the dehumanizing patterns of 1930s Nazism, culminated, it must be remembered, in one of the most shameful episodes in human history: industrialization.
Why don't they approach them? Why don't they ask them how they felt when they left their country? Rhetorical questions. They all have an answer: because it's not in their best interest. Because talking might reveal, miraculously, that "these people" (as they like to call them) think, laugh, suffer, cry, work, and have problems just like every one of us who live in this Mallorca, a defaced, post-hotel, capitalist land of asphalt, cement, and swimming pools.
But David Gil isn't the only institutional representative participating in this shameful tour aimed at dividing the Mallorcan population. Even the Speaker of Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, is parading around Mallorca, warning of "the disturbing presence of these people." The Speaker of Parliament is the second-highest authority in the Balearic Islands and a figure of significant institutional weight, which, traditionally, those who have held the position have respected, dignifying and upholding it, always striving to live up to the institution they represent: the legislative chamber, the body that decides how people should be governed through elections.
Le Senne is far removed from all of this. Forgetting the office he holds, he acts like a true party hooligan. The first example we all remember was the tearing down of the portrait of Aurora Picornell sitting in the Speaker's chair. It's no coincidence that the PP and Vox have repealed the Democratic Memory Law. Repeatedly, in Felanitx, in Sineu… Le Senne goes around blaming the housing problem on the people who come to work here instead of talking about the conversion of thousands of homes into vacation rentals. As Def Con Dos said, "It's all Yoko Ono's fault." Here, for Vox, and for the PP, which follows behind, it's all the migrants' fault. Just like the Jews, in the German style of a hundred years ago.
And it seems President Le Senne even has time to travel sixty kilometers to Portocristo to denounce "ideological indoctrination" in front of Catalina Julve's beautiful murals in the town's high school. Painted with sanguine and blue, they make visible the forms of love that the far right wants to suppress. Love is not an ideology. Nor should the green hatred that drips from the drool of these hooligans who make King Pig a reality. It sickens me to think that tomorrow we might have to witness scenes of paramilitaries raiding people's homes to expel them from the place where they came seeking a new opportunity in life. We cannot normalize this.