Lucca on 07 September 2019
Well, I'm not going to keep arguing with Bolsonaro defenders, it's like talking to a wall. But I'd like to tell you some things that happened after I made that post, in between calling Macron's wife ugly and cancelling science scholarships, that are even scarier than my OP (I'll put this there as an update too):
- Men from the military have been attending meetings at Cinemateca Brasileira (Brazilian Cinematheque), to "help" decide what exhibitions were going to be presented, with the excuse of fighting "getting to know the institution and its goals". This month, there is going to be an exhibition there about the military with the goal of "fighting cultural marxism", congressman Castello Branco - from Bolsonaro's party - announced in a video where he and other retired captains and soldiers chanted Bolsonaro's campaign slogan "Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos" (Brazil above anything, God above everyone) and saluted.
- After less than 24 hours of an exhibition of political cartoons criticizing Bolsonaro in Porto Alegre, it was closed down by a congresswoman, who said that she did that because it was "offensive against Bolsonaro [...] it's inconceivable to create an exhibition that offends the president of our nation." If you wanted a clear, undeniable case of censorship, here it is.
- Rio de Janeiro's mayor requested that all copies of a Young Avengers comic book be confiscated from a book fair because there was a page where two male characters kiss. He also sent a commission of government employees to check each book and see if they were "appropriate".
- Bolsonaro went through the list of films that would be financed by ANCINE, the agency that funds Brazilian film productions, and cancelled the funding of every film that contained LGBT+ themes, even those that were already approved to get financed.
