Rebeca Andrade made history a few minutes ago when politicians liked Joao Doria and Eduardo Leite ran to social media to express their admiration for the athlete’s achievements. We have to face this attitude with all the ethical constraints they ask for, despite having to take their honesty into account (yes, Doria and Leite might even be sincere).

The first question that comes to my mind is, is the open expression of pride among politicians who support economic programs to eliminate all single mothers in the suburbs, such as Rebeca’s mother, better than the silence of the genocidal president?

I really can’t tell.

Until I posted this text at three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, the person who exercises power as President of the Republic did not comment on the historic achievement of Rebeca Andrade.

Busy with testing another of his plans on the streets – chaos – a verifiable print vote – and thus justifying in advance a future defeat at the ballot boxes in 2022, Bolsonaro remained silent as he thought. about women (he has already said that some deserve to be raped) and about blacks (he has already compared blacks to cattle).

On the other hand, Doria and Leite, whom I would happily vote for if the need arose to defeat Bolsonara in 2022 under one of these names, delivered the speech you would expect from a politician fighting to win Rebeca using the right words. and the emotions expected in the face of the case.

But how do politicians like them operate on a daily basis? Supporting reforms that divide the poor, blacks, marginalized, vulnerable, workers and workers in general.

It is inconsistent to praise Rebeca and, for example, vote for flexibility in labor laws that will tire the low-income worker. Inconsistently praising and supporting Rebeca Social security reform in the forms in which it is presented, because the worker and the low-income worker will have to work until they die. To inconsistently praise Rebeca and fight for the privatization of everything, wanting to flood educational, cultural and sports institutions with business logic.

It’s inconsistent to praise Rebeca and talk about fictions like meritocracy. Just try speeches have no database in a country that kills and locks up their young people by the hundreds of thousands before they figure out what to do with their lives. For every Rebeca to climb the podium, there are thousands of young people who couldn’t even get to the bus stop because they were killed by the police or the police.

To inconsistently clap your hands for the funky choreography of Baile de Favela and criminalize this art, culture and music by applauding every police operation that invades the periphery and favelas to interrupt – beating and shooting – moments of fun, such as what happened in 2020 when nine youths were trampled to death in arbitrary police action during – check it out – dancing in the favela.

However, I really don’t know if manifestations like those of Doria and Leite are more ethical than Bolsonaro’s silence. There is a truth in the current president’s course of action that is less vulgar and less vexing than the progressive politicians who support genocidal programs.

Rebeca Andrade is an exception, and it shouldn’t be. The size of the tragedy in our life must be within the limits of finitude and the inevitable losses that we must endure during life experience. No tragedy should be inscribed in social injustice, no sacrifice should include the need to overcome exploitation, oppression and repression on a daily basis so that your daughter can stay alive and be who she wants to be.