There are sound frequencies that only animals hear. We have no hearing aid as powerful as dogs, for example. Trainers have created whistles to train them.
Political communication has drew this good metaphor to name illusionist technique: “” These are verbal, gestural or graphic codes only understood by initiates. A kind of peaky flashing for your class. Racist and Nazi movements have a whole repertoire of whistles. During the government, we learned a little how they work.
When Roberto Alvim, Filipe Martins stirred his tie, Allan Santos and Jorge Seif in front of the camera, or when Bolsonaro spoke in “an auditable” and “living without oxygen, but never without freedom”, there was more in the subtext than any citizen could capture. It was only impossible to decipher the tweets of. It is not known if they were dog whistles to their own head. A self -acap.
But this was not an invention of political extremism. The vocabulary of the most backward forces of Brazilian politics has two seductive words that act as dog whistles. Colonial sensitivity loves to invoke “modernization” and “pacification” to ventilate their regressive ideas.
When politician or superior court minister says he aims to “modernize” or “pacify” anything, the new colonels, slave lords and organized crime leaders know what they say. We are from the country in which military coup has presented itself as “pacification” and abolition of slavery, without a program of inclusion of the black population, as “modernization”.
There are three major initiatives of “modernization” and three fantastic “pacification” movements in progress.
“Modernizations” often adorn the reform discourse. But good renovation is not any reform. The first is in some “administrative reform” proposals. They fight against modern, technical and independent bureaucracy in favor of servile, dumb bureaucracy, without expertise and responsibility. The second is in the “labor reform” that eliminates labor law and explodes the “employment relationship”. The third in “”, a tractor not publicly debated and watched by dogs of jealous guard for their authorship and profitability.
In the script of “pacification”, we have the amnesty to military torturers for crimes against humanity. Sanctioning would be “revanchism” (ADPF 320 slept in 10 years). We have the struggle for amnesty of the scam plan of January 8. “Let’s pacify, zero the game from now on,” says Jair. And the conciliation to the Indigenous Rights Forceps in the Supreme Court, where indigenous people were summoned to negotiate. “Opportunity for historical pacification,” says Gilmar.
What is the score of the game between Brasil Colônia and Constitutional Brazil? What pacification protects the weaker? What modernization contradicts economic power?
Nothing against modern values. Nothing against the attempt to honestly promote peace. On the contrary. It is that the legal empallization carries its opposite: an invitation to premodern and pre-constitutional, where rights and freedoms are suppressed; A call to violence, the “peace” from top to bottom.
Our worst past still gets into our future.
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