From palmist to racist: The profile of Bolsonaristas

A group of black lawyers sent a manifesto to the Brazilian Bar Association, demanding “"Eradicating racism as a genocidal practice against the Black population", practiced “within the Order itself”.  

Lawyers are denouncing the absence of the black population in various areas of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), such as events organized by the institution's thematic committees and even within the board of directors. 

The article was published on the Geledés Portal, where a gentleman left a comment in the comments section: "What utter nonsense! Those who lack competence don't succeed. Only a few Black people become lawyers, not because they passed the entrance exams, but because they were admitted through affirmative action programs for Black people." 

This is a snapshot of racist thinking that has become more easily understood through the camera of an Android device connected to social media platforms.  

Every day we learn of acts that compromise the sanity of any social organism. We saw a man who, with Bolsonaro's face tattooed on his leg, filmed women in public spaces in Rio, without their consent, and posted it on the internet with sexist comments and clear demonstrations of cognitive disorders and sexual perversion.  

There was the case of the burly man who tried to humiliate a young delivery driver inside a middle-class condominium in Valinhos, São Paulo, using clichés such as:"You're jealous of the families who live here." rubbing his finger on his arm, in the most disgusting caricature that white men invented as a form of supremacy, he says,"He's jealous of this." 

We also saw the couple who disrespected the public servant in Barra da Tijuca because he asked them to put on their masks to protect against the coronavirus. Having heard a pathetic response... "He's a civil engineer, better than you." Furthermore, how pathetic these creatures are! Like the judge who tore up a fine and discredited a municipal guard officer. 

Every day we are outraged by images of the structural racism prevalent in our society, but also by the decentralization of dominant racism that falls into dangerous trivialization, such as that practiced by the president of the republic against quilombola and indigenous people, which spreads among his followers as if it were a joke. 

What is somewhat strange, but easily analyzed sociologically, is that all cases of racism, sexism, violence against workers, such as the case of the nurses in Brasília, attacks on democratic institutions, fascist movements, and ethnic and religious exclusion, are perpetrated by people who supported Jair Bolsonaro for president.  

The well-educated young man Matheus, assaulted by the other Matheus, the racist, in the condominium in Valinhos, said:I can have the same thing as you. How did you get it? Because your father gave it to you or because you worked for it?”  

In these cases, the aggressor's family tries to escape responsibility, minimizing guilt by saying that the aggressor uses medication. That may be true, but there is no effective vaccine against the disease of racism in medical literature.