The alternative to feel-goodism
The decision to force four hundred homeless people onto the streets with police batons has degenerated into an extremely serious social crisis in Badalona. There have been clashing demonstrations, attempted lynchings of those evicted from the B9 shelter by groups of residents, and the impossibility of housing a group of these people in a church, even with the assistance of the Red Cross, due to the real risk of violence. Amidst the deplorable nature of it all, the only positive outcome has been the exposure of a certain type of person, and a certain type of rhetoric, sadly common these days: those who hate what they call "do-gooderism."
Flagell, indeed, of do-goodism (also a synonym for wokismAlbiol decided to stage a supposed show of force that has resulted in utter failure. An institutional, political, and social failure (the public administrations, including the Generalitat and the Spanish government's delegation in Catalonia, have been exposed for their inaction, with the usual excuses about having or not having certain powers). A failure that is only being paid for, directly, by the people evicted from the B9 institute. Criticizing the reception system may or may not be justified, but even Albiol can understand that violently evicting homeless people and leaving them on the street without having planned any way to help them not only fails to solve any problems but exacerbates them and creates new ones.
In fact, the aim isn't to solve any problems, but rather to prop up a social and economic system based on inequality. A system in which the chances of getting ahead in life are determined by the economic means of each individual, their family, or the environment in which they are born or raised. And of course, by their origin or skin color. The problem isn't even Albiol, who in himself is practically nobody, just another puppet inflated by the media and politics. The same (smaller, but the same) as Ayuso, Milei, Trump, and the depressing parade of abusers and oppressors of the poor that we see. succeed Every day, they are voted for by masses of people who place their hopes, or their base instincts, in the wolf disguised as a shepherd.
It is also not true that working-class or humble people hate those poorer than themselves: that might be the case with racists or those who hate the poor, because being working-class or humble is not incompatible with being racist or hateful. The example given is much more interesting. Angela Valeiras, a doctor A retired woman from Badalona took in two of the people evicted from the B9 building for a few days until they had somewhere else to go. "If the opposite of being do-gooder is being bad, I choose the good ones," Valeiras said. Indeed, in politics, "do-gooderism" is articulated through the also-denigrated social democracy. "Motherhood," on the other hand, is articulated through the far right, which is essentially the ideology of predators and cowards.
