12/20/2015, 7:35 pm
Prog off
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia. I was curious about this photo, from a Brazilian friend's Facebook feed:
Activists of the feminist movement Bastardxs cut the penis of a puppet of Mr Jair Bolsonaro (PP-RJ) during a protest in Posto 5 Copacabana, in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, on Friday. The demonstration repudiates the Member's attitudes and his statement that he would not rape Mrs Maria do Rosário (PT-RS) because she did not deserve it.
So I read up about it. In September, 2015, Judge Tatiana Dias da Silva ordered politician Jair Bolsonaro to pay his colleague, Maria do Rosario, 10,000 reals ($2,560) for saying last December in a newspaper interview that she is not “worth raping; she is very ugly”. Later, in an interview, Bolsonaro had he said that he would not rape do Rosario because she didn't “deserve it”.
Despicable, no doubt. In fact so despicable that every link to the story I looked at (the Guardian plus a few blogs) described Bolsonaro as “a right wing politician” or “conservative politician.”
Bolsonaro is a member of the Communist Party, and always has been. On the Wikipedia page about him, the summary side bar it shows his party affiliation, and lower down on the page it states "Other controversial political stances expressed by Bolsonaro have included the desire to "deport right-wingers and wealthy and middle-class people as a whole.” Yet, the opening sentence of Wikipedia's page on him calls him "a Brazilian right-wing politician.”
Because there are no enemies on the left.
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia. I was curious about this photo, from a Brazilian friend's Facebook feed:
Activists of the feminist movement Bastardxs cut the penis of a puppet of Mr Jair Bolsonaro (PP-RJ) during a protest in Posto 5 Copacabana, in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, on Friday. The demonstration repudiates the Member's attitudes and his statement that he would not rape Mrs Maria do Rosário (PT-RS) because she did not deserve it.
So I read up about it. In September, 2015, Judge Tatiana Dias da Silva ordered politician Jair Bolsonaro to pay his colleague, Maria do Rosario, 10,000 reals ($2,560) for saying last December in a newspaper interview that she is not “worth raping; she is very ugly”. Later, in an interview, Bolsonaro had he said that he would not rape do Rosario because she didn't “deserve it”.
Despicable, no doubt. In fact so despicable that every link to the story I looked at (the Guardian plus a few blogs) described Bolsonaro as “a right wing politician” or “conservative politician.”
Bolsonaro is a member of the Communist Party, and always has been. On the Wikipedia page about him, the summary side bar it shows his party affiliation, and lower down on the page it states "Other controversial political stances expressed by Bolsonaro have included the desire to "deport right-wingers and wealthy and middle-class people as a whole.” Yet, the opening sentence of Wikipedia's page on him calls him "a Brazilian right-wing politician.”
Because there are no enemies on the left.

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