“The weapons of the haters are loaded by the Macri, the Bullrich, the Milei, the Granata and the López Murphy“. The phrase written in an opinion column by the head of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), Victoria Dondagenerated a wave of responses in the opposition and even a request to be removed from office which he has occupied since 2019.
Donda, on the other hand, appears as one of the most resonant voices in the ruling party in aI support a law against hate speechwhich would be sent to Congress in the short term: this thursday september 8 A meeting will be held in Deputies to advance in that sense, with the consent of the Public Defender’s Office of the Nation and the Institute against discrimination of the City of Buenos Aires.
Donda called for a meeting of the authorities participating in the Federal Council for Anti-discrimination Public Policies, and remarked that “in the face of the assassination attempt on vice-resident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerwithin the framework of a growing political violence based on hate speech, there is an urgent need to broaden the democratic debate”.
“The INADI, a human rights organization specialized in anti-discrimination matters, since the current management is working against hate speech by monitoringreports and issuing recommendations both to the media and alerts to institutions and the population in general,” added the official.
In the mirror, deputies of Together for Change requested Donda’s resignation as head of INADI. “Unfortunately, the INADI intervener uses her position at the command of an entity whose main mission is to fight against discrimination as a tool partisan politics to make biased judgments and exercise enormous symbolic violence against political opponents,” they said in a statement.
“Donda accuses, stigmatizes and qualifies the opposition to be the only ones who have hate speech“, added for her part the deputy Silvia Lospennato. “Victoria Dona she is an untrained civil servant”, added Alexander Finocchiaronational deputy of Together for Change and former Minister of Education, on the request for the resignation of the head of INADI, Victoria Donda.
“The reaction to my letter seemed quite natural to me. I am mentioning by name and surname people who during this time have been characterized by contributing to the violent scene. Patricia Bullrich redoubles the bet after the assassination attempt. Amalia Granata came out to say that this had not happened… outrageous things. Putting more emphasis on an opinion column than on those who ask for the death penalty for the vice president is a sign of the seriousness that we are experiencing with our political leadership,” he replied. Victoria Donda.
“I could have written the same note without mentioning the leaders. But it would also be distracting me regarding those who articulated a speech that was generating the breeding ground for this to happen. And I’m not going to be distracted. Is not my style. I clearly point out who are those who maintain that a society without Peronists, without Kirchnerists, is better. Y They targeted Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner like two symbols that they attack,” added Donda in dialogue with Wake Up (Delta 90.3).
“Why do those haters hate? Who pays the hate? A week ago I had an opinion recommending (Alfredo) Leuco to stop continuing to build this climate. What do I know… The truth seems to me that the situation is quite clear. Propose today that the violence of a sector of politics that contributes to the event that occurred in Argentina last week is the same, it is the same as raising the theory of the two demons“, continued the head of INADI
“There are political leaders who have a high degree of responsibility, and who carry out these actions, and They must be marked with first and last name. The response has to be immediate from the entire political leadership that was an attempted murder. Those of us who represent politics have institutional responsibilities, and we have to take responsibility, because otherwise it seems that everything is the same”, he insisted on the lack of accession with Cristina Kirchner of some members of the opposition.
“In Argentina’s political history, hate speech has always existed. Today, social networks magnify and distort. But it does seem to me that we have to consider in our society that anti-Peronism has two paths. One is to live in peace with that tradition of the Argentine people. that it will not be undemocratic, and the path of violence. The one that exerts systematic violence from the state has not been Peronism. Peronism has been a victim“, concluded the official official who has chaired the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism since the end of 2019, with not a few controversies.
Donda was at the center of the controversy in July 2020, six months after taking office, when she was denounced by the journalist “Baby” Etchecopar of having “discriminatory expressions” during an interview with students from the PROFILE School of Communication. In said interview, the head of INADI stated that it was necessary “build a society where the Baby Etchecopar are repudiated and have no audience”. The A24 journalist assured that the official “encouraged and invited hatred and proposed to eliminate it.” federal prosecutor Federico Delgado intervened and requested that she be dismissed since her statements “did not constitute a crime.”
At the end of that same year, Donda participated in a debate with Cynthia Hotton and ended up being forced to apologize. Exchanging opinions on the possible legalization of abortion, the head of INADI described as “religious fanaticism” to the arguments raised by Hotton to support his position against the termination of pregnancy. Hotton maintained that Donda was discriminating against her because of her faith and she also called for the official’s resignation.
“It’s time to that Victoria Donda be kicked out”, they claimed once again from the opposition when in May 2021, INADI launched a campaign to prevent schools from returning to face-to-face: They invited to denounce all those educational institutions that insisted on returning to the classroom or did not guarantee virtual classes.
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