Offending Catholics: socialism resorts to bad education to cover up its scandals

The Spanish philosopher and jurist Antonio Escohotado, who passed away in 2021, made a reflection that I would like to remember at the beginning of this year.

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His words referred to one of the main riches of a country, a wealth that some seem to be forgetting:

"A country is not rich because it has diamonds or oil. A country is rich because it has education. Education means that, even if you can steal, you don't steal. Education means that you are walking down the street, the sidewalk is narrow, and you get off and say: 'excuse me'. Education is that, even if you are going to pay the bill in a store or a restaurant, you say 'thank you' when they bring it to you, you give a tip, and when they give you back the last thing they give you, you say thank you again. When a town has that, when a town has education, a town is rich."

Socialism has been impoverishing Spain in many ways for years. Its impoverishing effects are felt especially in the economy and in our freedoms, but surely the most devastating effect of socialism is seen in the theft of that precious wealth that is good education. A theft perpetrated in the name of an ideology that has never spared any effort in destroying that which good education seeks to preserve: coexistence among Spaniards.

This good education begins with something very basic that Spanish socialism seems not to understand: not gratuitously offending others. Obviously, anyone can be bothered by the opinions of another, but it is legitimate to express them. Gratuitous offence exists when one seeks to clearly humiliate others deliberately, using insulting words or gestures, without the attacked having done anything to be the target of this humiliating treatment.

Last night, during the New Year's Eve chimes on Spanish Television (a public channel paid for by all taxpayers), Laura Yustres Vélez, better known as Lalachus, displayed a blasphemous image that ridiculed the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The image went viral overnight on social media, receiving numerous criticisms from Catholics and people who are not even believers but who consider that this gesture was clearly offensive and absolutely inappropriate in a New Year's Eve program on a channel paid for - I repeat - by all taxpayers, including millions of Catholics.

Instead of condemning this offence, RTVE president José Pablo López Sánchez, chose this insulting image to show his satisfaction with this programme in a message posted on his personal Twitter account. In other words, we have a public channel whose president openly celebrates a gesture of bad manners clearly aimed at offending Catholics. After receiving much criticism, López has ended up closing the possibility of responding to his messages on his Twitter profile. A one-way view of freedom of speech: they can offend but they don't want you to express your opinion on it.

Curiously, on the same program in which she displayed this offensive image, Lalachus rejected criticism of obese people stating: "let's stop commenting on other people's bodies because all bodies are valid, no matter what size they are". Basically, what this woman is saying is that she feels bad about the offenses of others but at the same time she has no qualms about making fun of other people's feelings on a prime-time program. This is nothing new: this is how the left understands freedom of speech. The left believes it has the right to insult others, while asking others to keep quiet because whatever they say, however harmless, seems wrong to it.

The point is that insulting fat people is part of the same bad manners as offending the religious feelings of others. It is not coherent to reject the first and promote the second, which is what TVE did last night. In fact, TVE's tacit message is that some Spaniards deserve to be insulted, while the other part deserves to be protected not only from insults, but also from opinions that they do not like.

What TVE, controlled by the socialists, does is use public money to promote poor education and disrupt coexistence, and it does so on purpose, because the PSOE, in the midst of the corruption cases in which it is immersed, knows that it has no other way out than to set Spaniards against each other in order to cover up its scandals, avoid electoral punishment for them and perpetuate itself in power.