Alexander Alfie
11/24/2020 18:12
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/24/2020 6:24 PM
The presentation against the "hate speech" of the director of INADI, Ornella Infante, with two Montoneros cadres behind her, generated strong repercussions in the opposition, whose leaders repudiated the "claim" of the guerrilla organization and asked the authorities for explanations. director of the official body, Victoria Donda, as well as that President Alberto Fernández makes her resign from Infante.
"In a normal country the civil servant has to give explanations, because she cannot from a place that calls for harmony to
vindicate terrorist organizations
," said Deputy Waldo Wolff (PRO), president of the Freedom of Expression Commission.
His colleague on the bench, Fernando Iglesias, said in the same sense, who maintained that this "clearly identifies where the hate speech comes from. And it is very serious, because it
has the endorsement of the State
."
Hernán Lombardi, former head of the Public Media System, assured Clarín that "political violence is a nightmare that we leave behind forever.
President Alberto Fernández must ask Infante to resign
, because he made a political claim from Montoneros"
On the other hand, the organizers of the Conference "What do we do with hate speech?", Where this unusual situation took place,
relativized the controversy
and placed the attitude of the official as something of her private life and of her political opinions on " the history of the '70s ”, as
Nahuel Sosa, one of the coordinators of Agenda Argentina
, explained to
Clarín
.
From the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), led by Victoria Donda, they responded in the same direction: "It is not up to the agency to give an opinion or take a position on
the decoration that its officials or staff have in their homes
, even if it appears in virtual activities, that presence is totally secondary with respect to the content of the activities themselves, "the INADI responded to
Clarín.
And they added that the official Infante, for the moment, would not make statements to clarify that situation.
“Let's end the hate speech.
Hold the amounts ”.
INADI official.
Kirchnerism is a reverse Corsican.
pic.twitter.com/EZAKwTZoBl
- Fernando A. Iglesias (@FerIglesias) November 24, 2020
The controversy broke out when Ornella Infante,
national director of Policies and Practices against Discrimination of INADI
and head of the Front for Equality of the Evita Movement, spoke about "The hatred of women, lesbians, transvestites and trans people."
The government official
had two highly visible paintings behind her
: "Movimiento Montonero" read one, with the image of Evita;
and the other was the cover of a montonera magazine, El Descamisado, with a giant red eight-pointed star.
During his speech, Infante defended the rights of the "LGBTI population and specifically trans people, who, due to these hate speech and the practices of this society that leaves many of us out, translates into a life expectancy of 35 to 40 years ".
The official also questioned the "hateful and stigmatizing speeches towards indigenous peoples, who when they recover a territory demonize and stigmatize them as usurpers of land."
Despite the fact that the Conference was against hate speech, once its presentation ended,
none of those who participated there was surprised
by the scenery that the official had set up, with two pictures of Montoneros behind her.
It was a table that he shared with Adriana Carrasco and Melisa D'Oro, where there were two other moderators and also three other presenters at that discussion table.
When one of the organizers of the Conference was consulted, Nahuel Sosa said that "she spoke about the problem of transsexuals nowadays. Then
the paintings that she has at home
based on their political sympathies seem to me to be in everything his right, beyond whether or not his view of the history of the 70s is shared, "said Sosa.
The Montoneros not only hated you: they killed you, shot, bomb or torture you.
And these come to teach ... https://t.co/cx654QDOdD
- Alejandro Fargosi (@fargosi) November 24, 2020
On the contrary, for deputy Waldo Wolff "it is not a matter of his private life. She is a public official and she exhibited at that Conference in her role as an official, with two very specific cadres behind her. You cannot work for an institution that promotes the coexistence and
vindicate organizations that promote the opposite,
"said Wolff, in dialogue with
Clarín.
"This should not generate controversy, because we believed that we had left it behind forever. From 1983 on,
Argentine democracy eradicated political violence forever
. It is aberrant for a high-ranking official to vindicate it," Lombardi added.
The leader of Valores para mi País, Alejandro Fargosi, maintained from his Twitter account that "the Montoneros not only hated you: they killed you with gunshots, bombs or torture. And they come to teach," he lamented on the social network.
Deputy Iglesias also expressed himself there: "'Let's end hate speech. Hold the amounts.' INADI official. Kirchnerism is a Corsican against hand," the deputy of Together for Change ironically.