{"id":61168,"date":"2025-10-13T06:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61168"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:55:41","slug":"would-the-media-have-treated-two-right-wingers-who-vandalized-a-painting-with-this-courtesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/13\/would-the-media-have-treated-two-right-wingers-who-vandalized-a-painting-with-this-courtesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Would the media have treated two right-wingers who vandalized a painting with this courtesy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You only need to peacefully disagree with the ideological dogmas of the left to be labeled \"far-right\" or \"ultra-Catholic.\"<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/11\/who-has-normalized-a-left-that-hates-those-who-reject-a-dictatorship\/\">Who has normalized a left that hates those who reject a dictatorship?<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/22\/six-spanish-political-parties-support-dictatorships-and-all-six-are-left-wing\/\">Six Spanish political parties support dictatorships, and all six are left-wing<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>However, the left seems to have absolute discretion against any accusation of extremism, as we saw once again yesterday. <strong>Two far-left activists vandalized a painting of Christopher Columbus in the Naval Museum in Madrid<\/strong>, throwing red paint at the work. Video of the attack can be seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Esto ha pasado en el Museo Naval, que depende de la Armada Espanola. Se me ocurren un mont\u00f3n de castigos cl\u00e1sicos en el Mar que deber\u00edan aplicarse a estos salvajes. \u00bfCu\u00e1l es su favorito? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/husGbSmBRS\">pic.twitter.com\/husGbSmBRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; V\u00edctorS\u00e1nchezdelReal (@sanchezdelreal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezdelreal\/status\/1977411140729889054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>A far-left group called Futuro Vegetal<\/strong>, which has previously carried out similar attacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FuturoVegetal\/status\/1977353351466492400\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">openly claimed responsibility for the attack<\/a> with this message: <em>\"<strong>We threw biodegradable paint at the painting \"First Tribute to Christopher Columbus\"<\/strong>, in the Naval Museum. The celebration of October 12 is the celebration of centuries of <strong>oppression, exploitation and genocide<\/strong> of the original population of Abya Yala.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many Spanish media outlets have reported on this attack by this <strong>group of violent fanatics who are dedicated to imitating the Taliban<\/strong>, attacking works of art that do not fit with their ideological lies and, specifically, with <strong>the lies of the anti-Spanish black legend<\/strong>, promoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/07\/israel-is-not-the-first-the-extreme-left-has-already-falsely-accused-spain-of-genocide\/\">the same far-left that has spread the hoax of the Israeli \"genocide\" in Gaza<\/a>. One day they slander Israel and the next day they slander Spain. Curiously, <strong>these fanatics never direct their criticism at Islamist or communist dictatorships<\/strong>, not even at the communist dictatorship of China, which has murdered millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>With news of this magnitude, what is strange is to observe the unanimity in the editorial staff: <strong>No media outlet has labeled the attacking group as \"ultra-left\" or \"far left\"<\/strong>, despite the fact that they defend clearly leftist ideological theses and do so with extremist methods such as violence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/11\/who-has-normalized-a-left-that-hates-those-who-reject-a-dictatorship\/\">I already warned against this media bias in an article published on Saturday<\/a> and we have only had to wait 24 hours to see another very clear example.<\/p>\n<p>Let's imagine for a moment that those who attack works of art did so from other ideological perspectives. <strong>Would the media have treated two right-wingers who vandalized a painting with this courtesy?<\/strong> You only have to regularly scan the Spanish media, even some that claim not to be left-wing, to see that in Spain <strong>groups that defend their ideas through legal and peaceful means are labeled \"far-right\" or \"ultra-Catholic\"<\/strong> simply because their opinions do not conform to the single progressive thought.<\/p>\n<p>Things change if you're on the \"correct\" ideological side. <strong>If you're on the left, then you can vandalize a work of art because no Spanish media outlet will dare to label you as \"far left,\" as if the existence of an extremist left that believes violence is a legitimate means to achieve its ends were something like a taboo that shouldn't be discussed. <strong>But if you're from Vox, Hazte O\u00edr, Abogados Cristianos, NEOS, or Atenea, then prepare to be singled out, defamed, and slandered<\/strong> by the same progressive media outlets that don't see fit to call leftist fanatics who vandalize a painting extremists.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You only need to peacefully disagree with the ideological dogmas of the left to be labeled \u00abfar-right\u00bb or \u00abultra-Catholic.\u00bb<\/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":[10720],"tags":[10497,19110,25486],"class_list":["post-61168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-far-left","tag-futuro-vegetal","tag-naval-museum-of-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168"}],"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=61168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}