The image of a teacher next to a bottle with a Suprematist symbol circulates on the networks; The students ask the teacher to leave
On the night of Friday 19, students denounced a professor from the Federal University of Amapá (unifap) Do apology for Nazism. On Saturday 20 the institution promised “a rigorous investigation”. As found the Stadiumhowever, the teacher’s offensive and prejudiced statements have attracted the attention of students since at least 2017, and the now-viral photograph actually made up a complaint from the end of last year, which, according to students, was restricted to a footnote of refusal of coordination course.
On Twitter, students posted a photo of a teacher with a water bottle plastered with a supremacist symbol. According to them, it was a nursing course.
OR Stadium managed to talk to the student author of the image. “I was a pupil of the teacher in 2022. During the course of the lessons, offensive speeches against minorities attracted my attention,” she said, who asked to have her identity preserved.
The report adds to that of Janaina Corrêa, director of Women at UNE, 26 years old, a student of the professor between 2017 and 2018, when she was still studying Nursing at Unifap – today she studies Social Sciences. She recounts having witnessed, during the period, “prejudiced” attitudes and speeches, with “macho and homophobic content”, on the part of the teacher. Jana, on the other hand, says she didn’t see the bottle with the sticker during the period.
“During the semester, I noticed the sticker on the bottle he was holding, but it was too quick and I had no proof,” said the student who created the image. It was only towards the end of the second half of last year that he was able to photograph the sticker.
“The agenda was brought to coordination, which kept silent by sending only a rejection note via email”, he says. OR Stadium he brought this report to Unifap, which has not yet manifested itself. The relationship also tried talking to the teacher, without success.
In Brazil, the apology of Nazism is a crime set forth in the law on racism (7.716/1989). The law provides for imprisonment from one to three years and a fine.
“It was a scare when I saw the repercussions (on social networks), since this happened late last year and it wasn’t just me who had these photos. Even so, I have mixed feelings. Fear of reprisals, but satisfaction in seeing the teacher unmasked. I expect a firm stand and a serious investigation by the University, an urgent removal is needed,” she said.
Schools become targets of neo-Nazis
As shown by Estadão, in December, Neo-Nazi attacks on schools and universities are on the rise, from scribbling on the walls to violence with the use of weapons. The choice for educational institutions is symbolic, as they represent spaces of cultural contestation of ideologies.
Experts stress the need for an anti-Nazi educational effort, with critical training. But schools cannot stand alone. The solution also includes the identification and prosecution of offenders, as well as actions to curb discriminatory content on social networks.
Source: Terra
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