The Catalans, with hooked noses, hunched over and counting money

The media's campaign against the new funding model continues, fueled by the stereotype of the Catalan as unsupportive, greedy, and usurious: we're not so far removed from the caricatures of Jews made in other dark times, and that didn't end well. Newspapers that are quick to proclaim that... United Spain this way, United Spain Towards that point, they now have no desire to stoke inter-territorial hatred with headlines like "Sánchez gives Catalonia 182% more than Extremadura and 25% more than Aragon," published by The World On the front page. If they wanted high figures, why don't they say "Sánchez gives Murcia 265% more than Extremadura"? The answer is obvious: because they cater to hatred based on supposed privilege. Years have passed, with locks spewing venom every time Catalonia had to resort to the FLA (Regional Liquidity Fund) for financing, but now that this distortion could begin to be mitigated, the focus is on keeping the country depressed by selling the idea in Spain that we treat everyone like royalty. waste and all the fishing. Not to mention that the figure ofThe WorldFor example, it also fails to consider factors such as asymmetrical living costs. Meanwhile, The reason They played the same card with "The government is dismantling regional solidarity in favor of Catalonia." Again, no news about Murcia, the Valencian Community, or Castilla-La Mancha, which receive more money per capita.

Both media outlets succumbed to the irresistible temptation to criticize the PSOE and incite Catalanophobia in a single sentence. On social media, people are talking about rage bait To explain the fishing cliques that work, not to know the information that the headline only half-tells, but because that phrase generates a visceral reaction. But the cavemen discovered the phenomenon long before the internet made it fashionable and gave it an Anglicism. Before, they called it Today we are going to sell newspapers.