Do a majority of Latin Americans support such contemporary social issues as same sex marriage?
Seems to me even in minority communitiesin the U S, homosexuality is more taboo than it is among native born whites.
If a majority of Brazilians elected him, my guess is acceptance of homosexuality isn’t one of their priorities.
It seems to be a matter of opinion:
They are catholic so no they don’t accept it.
I didn’t think so.
And net searches on the topic of “Latin Americans and women” show a majority view women in a more traditional role, as deferential to husbands, maintaining households, teaching children their way of life.
They tend to be less supportive of such contemporary choices as SSM & abortion rights.
Now it looks as if, in spite of claiming a stance of traditional values, this candidate has been twice divorced. But his more patriarchal, not supportive of homosexuality stances resonated among a majority of Brazilians.
This man didn’t get elected out of the air.
He got elected because the other person sucked.
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There is no Christian voting block in Brazil like there is in America, this dude was horrible everyone knew he was horrible but he won because the other person was part of the government who had run Brazil into the ground, they voted for the alternative knowing it was ■■■■■■■
DougBH
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Apparently San Francisco and NYC mores are the only values allowed throughout the world. We are not in an especially high position to order the world what they have to believe.
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JayJay
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No…it’s the coreect meaning.
An inability to condemn a guy who has stated his brutal doctatorial views in public for all to hear because of which way he leans politically.
And using dehumanizing language to hide the fact that she failed to criticize him for those views, saying that “maybe Brazillians don’t care about the ‘words coming out of his mouth’, and just care about the economy”.
Hint- the phrase “words coming out of his mouth” is a very specific rhetorical device designed to belittle and try and pass off those “words” as unimportant.
But you of course know this.
zonulet
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You won’t find that understanding here. It would be the equivalent of going to Home Depot for milk. Most Americans are not capable of thinking or examining the historical perspective. Just more reacting and or parroting.
Amazing how many on the old Forum, when actual human rights violations against homosexuals was taking place in the Middle East, just didn’t care. They were only interested in lack of same sex marriage rights in the U S.
Not allowing two brides or two grooms is a human rights violation? So, homosexuals getting everything from raped & humiliated to flogged & thrown off rooftops isn’t a concern, but the popular elect in Brazil shooting off his mouth about them is?
And a majority of Brazilians electing him in an apparently fair election is a problem? Okay.
I think personally, in a country where in the Recife region in particular kids swim in sewage; mosquitoes breed in standing water; & babies are born with microcephaly, it’s hardly the time or place to worry about women’s lib or SSM.
SF & NYC values, which many Latin Americans don’t accept anyway, need to go on a backburner.
JayJay
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Lol. If only that was all that was wrong with him…
My point is reducing humanity to an economic equation is causing an awful lot of dehumanization, and there you were front and center…going along with it because this person is a rightie.
There are millions of people who voted for trump and are now regretting it. What’s your point?
This whole thread reminds me of an incident roughly 10 years ago. A Boston Herald sports columnist named Bob Ryan admitted he’d like to “smack (ESPN personality) Jumanah Kidd”.
Majority were squeeling like stuck pigs for the remark (which was obnoxious, & JK, IMO, is an interesting woman). But it was just that—an obnoxious remark.
None of the local hypocrites ever condemned the New York NBA team who accepted her husband Jason as a player after the Phoenix Suns ejected him following a domestic violence arrest. He hit the poor lady in the mouth in a Phoenix hotel room.
And certainly none of these hypocrites were condemning Jason, who actually had the temerity to go in Sports Illustrated whining they were a misunderstood family.
Hypocrites one and all.
You are having an argument that no one is having.
And there were plenty regretting their choice of Obama. Yours is…?
It’s their country, & no one has come out & said it was a rigged election.
Needs more non sequiturs.
Brazil have been under left wing rule for the last 15 years. They are a fairly young democracy, and it was a perfect storm of out of control violence and a bad recession that tipped them to elect Bolsnonaro because he was a decisive figure. People in our country frivolously throw around the word “Far Right” when talking about Trump and others but this guy really is far right. Throughout history desperate people will vote desperately when they feel the ruling class is ignoring them.
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Yeah your post reminded me that it was Brazil who had a pretty devastating energy crisis. I posted a link
