Equally racist and sexist

Last Saturday, three Barça players had to endure insults such as “fucking black man”, “fucking Moor”, “selling handkerchiefs at the traffic light”. It is disgust cooked with rage coming out of the mouth of someone who, not knowing how to digest the frustration of a football result (I imagine what it will be like in areas of greater relevance), finds the violence of hate as a torrent through which to navigate their own miseries, inabilities and xenophobia. They are three soccer stars, it is easy to imagine the effect on three migrants who had nothing, no papers or language to cling to.

The debate on violence in football is complex and essential because it is the sport that has, perhaps together with a certain audiovisual industry, enormous educational power and the transmission of values. If there is a sexual assault and no one raises an eyebrow, if you don’t go to a gala to support your colleagues because the prize is not for me, if we can go play in hell itself in exchange for money, the transmission squeaks. If equality is demanded at the expense of being portrayed, if effort is honored and not arrogance, if countries without rights for women or people are protested, transmission flourishes.

When insults are heard and there is hateful hate behavior on the part of spectators, what clubs or La Liga can do is not let it pass, have more trained referees to transfer what they heard to the minutes, seek punishment for the individual. Both La Liga, Real Madrid and Barça have not let it pass in the case of last Saturday, something that is essential for a society that is already problematizing migration and migrants, according to the CIS, and that is increasingly racist and fearful. of whoever is different from me, as long as it does not serve any purpose to me. Every racist insult should be followed by a condemnation, as has already happened, for example, with three Valencia fans who insulted Vinicius.

In 2023, hate crimes increased by 21.35% compared to 2022, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior. Those referring to racism and xenophobia, with 856 cases, were the most numerous and represented 40% of the total complaints (outside of that photo is everything that is not even reported). What was seen and heard against Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Ansu Fati is the symptom, not the disease. These insults can be heard in the stands of a stadium, but also in a traffic jam, or in a line at the supermarket. The disease comes from before and is also being inoculated from the Congress of Deputies, with special mention to Vox and, due to an incomprehensible mimicry, to Feijóo’s ‘transformer’ PP.

To Broncano’s question we should answer that we are more racist than we think. Regarding sexism, the Errejón case has made it clear that this also applies to those who, through speeches and theories, take to the streets in disguise.

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