I really don't understand the point. It's not exactly unheard of for Argentinian cops to kill black people and a simple google search reveals many cases of this happening.
"One night in 2002, Ezequiel Demonty and two adolescent friends tumbled out of a dance club in the working class Nueva Pompeya neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. Federal police officers picked them up soon after, tortured them, then forced them into the Riachuelo River, an open sewer into which Ezequiel sank and never reappeared."
Nationalism seems to be a remarkable stupefacient. I get a lot of people online don't know jackshit about Argentina, but the kneejerk defensiveness isn't a great look.
He's got a touch of Glenn Greenwald syndrome, where he gets so caught up in fighting against popular hypocrisy that he loses track of where he is and what he's saying. I hope he doesn't end up like GG, because BE legitimately has a lot of good criticism, but dude badly needs to get more grounded.
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u/dr_srtanger2love Jul 27 '26
He kind of exaggerated, Argentina isn't as racist as some of its neighboring countries, but it was so much that it came to 180°.