The racist course begins

It is clear that our society is largely made up of white people who feel, let's say, uncomfortable living with people of other colors or skin tones. Good people, no doubt, who are alarmed when they go out on the street and find that their neighborhood, or town, has been "filled" - that's their perception - with people of gradually darker pigmentation. The presence of these people makes them feel insecure, even more so if they are poor. This has a name: it is called xenophobia or racism, and also aporophobia. Aporophobic is not a word used in a derogatory sense, but racist or xenophobic is, and for this reason racists get very angry when they are called that. Being many, on the other hand, makes racism cease to be considered anomalous and become a normal, even banal, stance. Many would not go out to chase illegal immigrants through the streets, but they are bothered by an immigrant being ahead of them in the doctor's waiting room. Or that their children have to share classrooms with the children of these immigrants.Consequently, political options based on racism, xenophobia and aporophobia (from people arriving from outside, also from different ethnicities and religions, but with money, they never complain) are multiplying. In Spain, an absolutely electoral course begins and the Popular Party, in the words of Feijóo, has adopted the anti-immigration discourse of the hardest far-right: it already demands mass expulsions including minors, a demand that goes directly against the law – Spanish and European – and which has unsettled the barons of the PP: thus, while in Extremadura María Guardiola and her government speak of “complying with the law”, in Andalusia the moderate Moreno Bonilla gets bogged down in abstruse disquisitions to justify his submission to the government partners of Vox. The request to expel minors is not characteristic of any liberal center-right party, as Feijóo and his PP insist on presenting themselves. Quite the contrary, the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany could sign it without problems, which by the way is about to achieve a victory in the elections of the state of Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, which would mean a very hard blow and a regression to the worst moments of its history for both Germany and the entire European Union.Obviously, what happens in Spain and Europe will influence Catalan politics, which is not entering an electoral year but a pre-electoral one. Junts, with statements from its general secretary, Jordi Turull, has distanced itself from the far-right and racist Aliança Catalana with a commendable forcefulness. However, within Junts' circle, there are quite a few voices in favor of normalizing AC within the Catalan political system and reaching agreements with it. They justify this by appealing to the need to confront the onslaught of Vox and PP, an ultra-Spanishist bloc that until now they said was a scarecrow but which is now starting to frighten them. They forget, however, that AC does not add up with Catalan independence: it adds up with PP and with Vox, especially with the latter.