Brazil: the patrol of political correctness has reached Moraes

After calling “Operation Tabajara” an alleged wiretapping attempt in his office, denounced by Senator Marcos do Val (Podemos-ES), Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF), became the target of the political correctness patrol carried out by the traditional media.

In an article published on the UOL portal on Friday 3, columnist Truduá Dorrico claimed that the STF judge “offended ancestral peoples”.

“The expressions ‘Operação Tabajara’ and ‘Tentativas Tabajara’ employed to characterize the alleged anti-democratic plan architected by Daniel Silveira and Jair Bolsonaro are racist because they associate the name of the Tabajara people, a society before European colonization, with the pejorative idea of false, ridiculous, and minor,” Truduá wrote, while preaching “respect” for indigenous peoples.

Further, the columnist explains the roots of what she classified as “recreational anti-indigenous racism.”

“In television culture, the show Casseta e Planeta, broadcast on Rede Globo between 1992 and 2010, written by Beto Silva, Claudio Manoel, Helio de la Peña, Hubert Aranha, Marcelo Madureira, and Bussunda, Reinaldo Figueiredo, and Maria Paula, forged the racist association in the imagination by treating political and everyday topics as ‘tabajara’, in the sense of ‘false’ and ‘ridiculous’,” noted Truduá.

Finally, Truduá invites Moraes to a “realistic approach to the indigenous peoples, the Tabajara people, and other nations in Brazil, who have participated in successive operations for democracy, such as the fight against the temporal mark.

With information from Revista Oeste

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