'La Razón' and the genocide empanada
What are fake Argentine empanadas like? This question has been bothering me since a few years ago, when shops selling them began to proliferate in Catalonia, and regardless of the franchise, they were all united by the promise that they sold "authentic" Argentine empanadas. But, if we have to insist so much that these are the real thing, the genuine ones, where can we find fake, cheap, or bastard ones? Finally, I've found the answer: in this Sunday's issue of The reason.
"LGBTQ, feminists, and pro-Palestinianism, or how to make a mental mess," reads the front-page headline of the newspaper's Sunday Counterculture section, which is basically a compendium of articles of pure neoconservative doctrine with a thick layer of whitewashing makeup that allows for framing. In this specific case, the author points out the alleged contradiction of so-called intersectionality when one simultaneously defends the Palestinian cause and LGBTI rights, even though homosexuality is repressed by Hamas. As if it weren't possible to believe in the right of a people not to be exterminated and, at the same time, want this people to have a democracy that respects sexual diversity. You have to be very overly demagogic to implicitly defend that, in the name of coherence, we should turn our backs on Palestinians (gay or not) while Hamas is in power. "It's as if chickens were supporting Kentucky Fried Chicken," the article ironically states, speaking of "the Irenas Monteros of the moment" and other similar insults, in a comparison that has no logic whatsoever but that allows it to pour a glob of greasy ketchup over the crushed mixture of concepts with which the newspaper cooks up. sheets instead of provolone.