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      Intolerance is right-wing.

      "There is a higher value placed before us: to rescue democracy and the prospect of being an independent country, not a nation that grovels before the rich world, offering itself and the labor of its children at a paltry price. If we do not know how to unite, if we also want to practice hatred and intolerance, we will be complicit in the massacre of Brazil," says Fernando Brito, commenting on tragic episodes such as the Campinas massacre and the murder of a street vendor in the São Paulo subway.

      "There is a higher value placed before us: to rescue democracy and the prospect of being an independent country, not a nation that grovels before the rich world, offering itself and the labor of its children at a paltry price. If we do not know how to unite, if we also want to practice hatred and intolerance, we will be complicit in the massacre of Brazil," says Fernando Brito, commenting on tragic episodes such as the Campinas massacre and the murder of a street vendor in the São Paulo subway (Photo: Leonardo Attuch).

      POR FERNANDO BRITO, editor of the brick

      The massacre in Campinas and the massacre in Manaus give us a lot to think about.

      It's easy to say they are monsters, and they were, in the monstrosities they committed.

      But they are products of a collective disease, which has always existed endemically but, in recent times, has turned into an outbreak.

      Very "cool" and politically correct people started preaching that there was a right way and a wrong way to do everything.

      It started with "single thought," the kind that told us to "do our homework."

      There was even a certain Francis Fukuyama who declared the end of history and the evolution of society through conflict and its overcoming.

      As a certain fellow said, one shouldn't talk about the crisis, only work. The important thing was to do everything as someone had determined, no matter who it was.

      And that, in turn, gave us the right to have things always "in order," even if that order was vile, inhumane, and oppressive.

      Rules become our reason, and our reason does not accept that things could be different in the eyes of others.

       

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      What is not what I want, what I believe should be, must be fought against and destroyed.

      I am "good," my former neighbor, now an enemy, "is evil."

      We've become "factions," like the rioters in Manaus, and sometimes just as fierce and criminal as them.

      Even the most absurd ideas begin to seem normal because we are in a state of abnormality.

      Does someone kill a child because they love them? Does a woman who loves someone abandon them? Is possessing people a condition of love, like in those melodramas of "it's either mine or nobody else's"?

      The mother in Solomon's story gave up her own son out of love, so that he would not die by the King's sword.

      Is the sword now the symbol of love and justice?

      Are we saving our country by destroying its businesses, jobs, and production?

      Are we saving democracy by deposing elected officials and handing power to those who merely conspired to secure it?

      Are we trying to exterminate the "rival faction" and own a prison instead of freedom?

      Hate and intolerance are right-wing ideologies because they impede progress, human evolution, and harmonious coexistence, because hate and intolerance only triumph through destruction.

      We must practice daily immunization against it, because it is easy to contract this disease.

      And to stop seeing that good and evil are not watertight compartments, and that what defines our humanity is doing one while containing the other.

      To save Brazil from this chaos, it's necessary to understand that this cannot be done with a fundamentalist sect.

      Those who believe this are the Moros and Dallagnós.

      There is a higher value set before us: to reclaim democracy and the prospect of being an independent country, not a nation that grovels before the rich world, offering itself and the labor of its children at a paltry price.

      If we don't know how to unite, if we also want to practice hatred and intolerance, we will be complicit in the massacre of Brazil.