We read in ARA
that there has been a racist attack in Manresa, the capital of Bages, which I visit often. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man and a woman for having assaulted and insulted women with hijabs. It happened, paradoxically, in an area we call La Baixada dels Drets (The Descent of Rights).
In the Bages capital, women with hijabs are seen, they are not an anecdote, and some, in the street, walk behind their husbands. This image strikes me as very violent, because I cannot help but imagine myself or my daughter in this situation. When religion is involved, when you believe yourself to be the chosen people, you always occupy space with passive and subtle arrogance. I don't like religious restrictions, because they always affect the same human group: women.
And here I go, because these two uncivilized, imbecilic degenerates, who have assaulted and insulted (they believe) for religious reasons, have assaulted and insulted, once again, women. They would not have dared to say anything to the husbands, fathers, or adolescent sons who often take them for walks. They attack the slaves, not the masters. In the same way, all those who complain that newcomers (a polite euphemism for when we are in public) will end our culture by imposing theirs on us (a point even Vox makes) are only complaining about "some" newcomers. As if the expats
or the waitresses in Barcelona's bars were eager to say "Good morning" or understand "un tallat" (a coffee with milk). There are newcomers to whom no one will ever say anything (no far-right party), because they would probably be answered mockingly. The only ones we know for sure will say nothing, no matter what happens, who will not hold a press conference, are precisely these women who are covered like objects.
