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The Argentine Down Syndrome Association demanded an apology from Javier Milei: "We do not deserve this treatment"

2024-02-28T18:24:56.077Z

Highlights: President Javier Milei "liked" a discriminatory publication against the governor of Chubut. The Down Syndrome Association of Argentina demanded that he publicly apologize. The vice president of the ASDRA Advisory Council for People with Down Syndrome repudiated the president's endorsement of a discriminatory tweet. "We do not deserve to be offended and hurt by saying those things," she said in a video posted on social networks. The president's spokesperson denied Milei participated in the discriminatory post, saying: "We regret everything that happened"


In a message published on social networks, the vice president of the ASDRA advisory council repudiated the president's endorsement of a discriminatory tweet. The defense of Manuel Adorni, who tried to remove the president from the controversy.


Javier Milei

added another source of conflict due to his activity on social networks, after his controversies with the governors and, especially, with Ignacio "Nacho" Torres.

After he "liked" a discriminatory publication against the governor of Chubut, the

Down Syndrome Association of Argentina demanded that he publicly apologize

.

In a video published on social networks, Dominique Kantor, vice president of the ASDRA Advisory Council for People with Down Syndrome, put the entity's repudiation into words.

"I want to ask the president to publicly apologize for what he did and

defend the disability community

," she said.

And he added:

"We feel offended.

People with Down Syndrome do not deserve this treatment, we do not deserve to be offended and hurt by saying those things."

Javier Milei's "like" to a discriminatory post on social networks against the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres.

In the midst of questions to the President for "liking" a discriminatory publication against the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni assured that the president "was not a participant in such an aberration."

"That such pain has been created between people that we respect more than anything, because even personally I have reasons to say that. We regret everything that happened and

of course he was not a participant in such an aberration

," said Adorni when at the press conference They asked him about that publication, which was deleted from the X social network.

When the journalist who asked him the question insisted that Milei did participate because he "liked" that post in which Torres showed features of a person with Down syndrome, the presidential spokesperson continued with the denial and defense of the president: "I understand that it did not happen and we feel so hurt, because I dedicated myself to analyzing the thing a little, that publication disappeared later."

Source: clarin

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