Lula likens Bolsonaro's Independence Day ceremony to the Ku Kux Klan

Friday, September 9th 2022 - 17:09 UTC

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva likened the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro's Independence Day parade (Sept. 7) to a Ku Klux Klan show in which the current head of state just “lacked the hood.” Read full article

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imoyaro
Did he burn a cross? I'm aware that thousands of Confederates fled the US at the end of the Civil War to settle in Brazil, as it was still a slave state, and that to this day their descendants like to dress up in Confederate uniforms and fly the Confederate battle flag, but I've never heard of them reenacting Klan ceremonies...
Sep 10th, 2022 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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FortHay
Samuel Johnson's well known observation, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” may still hold true, but seems to have morphed into 'racism is . . .”. Celebrating the independence of the great nation of Brazil should not be an occasion to hijack the event for political or ideological purposes by either side.
Sep 10th, 2022 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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imoyaro
Ambrose Bierce, my favorite American author, has an observation on Johnson's famous statement in his “Devil's Dictionary”...

“PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. ”
Sep 10th, 2022 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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