Justice removes Léo Lins’ video from YouTube in which random jokes were made that hurt minorities
Léo Lins is well known for his jokes that disrespect many minorities. It’s not the first time the boy’s name has come up for stuff like this. In this stand-up, for example, he says “Black people can’t get a job, but in the age of slavery they were born employed and they even thought it was bad.” But not only. He talks about people from the Northeast, fat, elderly, with disabilities and transphobia. He shocked me to see a person like Fábio Porchat, who I think has an above average social conscience, tweet that the removal of this content was something shameful. The Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJ-SP) ruled that Léo Lins delete one of his comedy videos on YouTube because of pranks with minorities.
It’s okay that Porchat is also a comedian and that this identity of his is very strong, after all it was thanks to him that he became famous, known and had a comfortable life. However, it does not occur to me that a guy who has already had very progressive lines in his programs, or in his participation in other products of the cultural industry, endorses with absurd dimensions.
It may seem like a simple joke, but what is behind African slavery in Brazil is, quite possibly, the most absurd thing that has happened in our recent society. People were kidnapped from their land, transported on ships without any care, sold to other lands and exploited. Some forget that, during slavery, black women were systematically raped by whites, just out of perversity and pleasure, and by blacks, at the behest of whites, so that they would have more children, and that in the slave structure these children were commodities. Yeah, exactly what they do with animals today. We must not forget that even in this period black humanity was removed from the Catholic Church, and with papal blessing through the Dum Diverse.
The previous paragraph doesn’t even come close to describing the atrocities resulting from slavery. Today we see the reflection of all this period. Today we see that blacks have a lower level of education than whites, it is no coincidence, since, in 1837, the first education law in Brazil forbade blacks to attend public schools. Blacks are also the majority in a street situation, the majority in slavery-like jobs, the majority who work in exchange for shelter and food and other things along those lines. This is also no coincidence. In 1850, the land law prohibited blacks from owning any piece of land. These are two of the many examples that could be given.
Given all this context, I don’t think one can make “plain jokes” about black slavery. Brazil didn’t even take the blame for slavery, it didn’t implement land reform, it taught in schools that it was Princess Isabella who saved the blacks, in the 90s we learned that the collaboration of blacks in Brazil was only acarajé and capoeira, religions of African origins suffer severe persecution to this day, apart from the eugenics policy that brought white foreigners here to whitewash the population.
I really can’t understand how Porchat, who has lived with several black people and heard all these things and more from their mouths, can find plausible a joke that condemns people to this day. The question remains, when, in a lesson on slavery, a student makes that same joke aimed at a classmate, what measure to take? Or are we so innocent in thinking that these “jokes” do not reverberate in everyday life? Because as far as I know, there’s already a trend on TikTok for the above joke.
For these and other reasons, I think those who call themselves anti-racists sometimes have no idea what it really means to be anti-racist. First, that anti-racism shouldn’t be a self-declaration, it should be an acknowledgment that passes through attitudes, such as Sister Dulce, Drauzio Varella and Father Júlio Lancellotti. Secondly, the fight against racism has nothing to do with hashtags, it has to do with attitude, effort, practical work. Perhaps those who have condemned the court’s attitude in removing Léo Lins’ show from YouTube are a little afraid of facing the same thing he will do tomorrow, after all nobody spits in the air because they know it will end up on their own heads.
Source: Terra
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