DC Comics, following the trend of behavioral tolerance of its consumers, announced a gay Superman. Part of society loved the novelty; another part didn’t like it. Volleyball player Maurício Souza did not like the innovation and expressed his disapproval on a social network. His opinion was considered homophobia and he became the target of intolerance from those who claim tolerance.
His post – which contained no insult, aggression or incitement to violence against anyone – cost him the removal of his team, the declaration that he would be persona non grata in the Brazilian national team, offenses by sports program hosts and a public criminal action opened by a group of parliamentarians, who also officiated on Facebook for what happened.
It was a chain of disproportionate reactions. As reactionary as his convictions are, he has the right to express them. Raising the hashtag “homophobia is not an opinion, it’s a crime” doesn’t solve anything because the problem lies in defining what homophobia is.
The conceptual imprecision and political-ideological charge of this term make the criminalization of behaviors that configure such a thing to leave society hostage to a very controversial legal hermeneutics.
The letter that deputies sent to Facebook attached, in addition to the reference to the bisexual superhero, some of the player’s previous publications.
One problematizes the type of bathroom suitable for trans people and the other criticizes the possibility of using neutral language in a soap opera. The player also criticized the presence of a biological man in the women’s team of a certain sport. Now, these are controversial issues, whose debate cannot be interdicted under the pretext that to problematize them is to be homophobic.”
The cancellation campaign against the player earned him 1.5 million followers on Instagram, which proves that the intolerance of the reactionary right and the identity left feeds back.
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