{"id":57226,"date":"2024-09-27T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57226"},"modified":"2024-09-29T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T16:59:28","slug":"spain-has-become-the-worlds-best-method-for-detecting-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/27\/spain-has-become-the-worlds-best-method-for-detecting-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain has become the world's best method for detecting idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Spanish and I love my country for many reasons: for its history, for its culture, for its landscapes and for its good people (of which there are many).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/10\/12\/spain-did-not-commit-any-genocide-in-america-what-it-did-was-to-end-one\/\">Spain did not commit any genocide in America: what it did was to end one<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/10\/this-is-how-putins-russia-has-been-supporting-the-anti-spanish-black-legend\/\">This is how Putin's Russia has been supporting the anti-Spanish black legend<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, that doesn't mean that I like everything that has happened in the history of Spain or all the people who have been born in my country, but I certainly believe that <strong>we Spaniards can say that our history has many more lights than shadows<\/strong>, however much some insist on promoting a black anti-Spanish legend for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This black legend has its promoters today inside and outside Spain.<\/strong> The second part may seem normal, since promoting hatred of another country is one of the oldest methods to hide the vices and abuses of a political regime. For example, <strong>the most mediocre politicians in Latin America promote hatred of Spain to distract attention from the disaster they have caused.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just look at the cases of the far-left leaders of the <strong>Venezuelan<\/strong> dictatorship and their friends in <strong>Mexico<\/strong>, two sister countries that have been <strong>dragged into a critical situation by the extreme left<\/strong>; in Venezuela, a socialist regime that has plunged a rich oil-producing country into misery; and in Mexico, an ultra-left government that is complicit in the extremely high levels of violence suffered by the Mexican people. <strong>The socialist leaders of Venezuela and Mexico encourage Hispanophobia for the same reason that Hitler promoted antisemitism:<\/strong> to make people believe that their country's problems are due to a fictitious \"enemy.\"<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>the current problems in Mexico and Venezuela are due exclusively to the political regimes in these countries and to those who support them.<\/strong> Among their supporters, there are certainly Spanish communists, but <strong>the vast majority of the fans of these regimes are Venezuelans and Mexicans<\/strong>. If the peoples of Mexico and Venezuela want to find those responsible for their bad situation, they do not have to leave their borders: <strong>the guilty ones live among you, dear brothers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I have said above that there are also promoters of the anti-Spanish black legend in Spain. Indeed, <strong>in Spain there are Spaniards who hate their own country<\/strong> and who actively promote this hatred. The paradox that occurs in Spain and that does not occur in almost any other country is that <strong>these Hispanophobes are allies of the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, formed by a coalition of socialists and communists<\/strong>, and among the latter there are fans of the Hispanophobic charlatans from the other side of the Atlantic. Like them, <strong>the Hispanophobic Spaniards believe that all the evils of Spain would end up destroying Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hispanophobic charlatans inside and outside Spain have a common denominator: <strong>they deceive people by using Spain as a scapegoat to blame for all evils<\/strong>. This way of trying to deceive people is not new in history. The Hispanophobes do nothing original: essentially, what <strong>they are doing is a deception as crude and perverse as that of those who use Jews<\/strong>, blacks, the rich or Christians as scapegoats.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is necessary to make a warning: <strong>this kind of speech is common among those who want to liquidate democracy<\/strong>. The use of scapegoats is one of the characteristics that can be observed in anti-democratic movements such as <strong>communism, nazism and fascism<\/strong>, three franchises of socialism that have used this method of deception in a massive and criminal way, with tragic effects. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You will not see any democrat in Europe blaming his country's problems on the Roman conquest<\/strong>, on classical Greece, on Norman invaders, on Berber pirates or on the barbarian invaders of the 5th century. <strong>Anyone making such a speech would be taken for an idiot<\/strong>, and rightly so, and precisely these anti-Spanish speeches are designed to fool idiots. Thanks to these speeches, <strong>Spain is today, by far, the world's best method for detecting idiots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elentir\/8973308625\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elentir<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Spanish and I love my country for many reasons: for its history, for its culture, for its landscapes and for its good people (of which there are many).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[2621,11095,12963,10497,11276,2296,6548,2721,159],"class_list":["post-57226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador","tag-black-legend","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-far-left","tag-hispanophobia","tag-mexico","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-venezuela"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:26:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}