Brazil's supposed ‘racial democracy' has a alarming problem with online racism
Brazil has for many years provided itself as a "racial freedom" – a land of unified racial connections and free of racism. This picture has often times been questioned, while the murder in April 2018 of social justice campaigner Marielle Franco shed new light on the physical violence many of the country's black ladies face. And today, a particular form of racism is progressively on display online. In Brazil as worldwide, Twitter and google, Twitter and so forth have become a kind of contemporary pillory for distilling varied forms of racism, bigotry and mysogyny – and Brazil's electronic public ball is seeing an unique, deep-seated, colonial-like racism unleashed versus upwardly mobile black ladies. The messages worried birth the hallmarks of "bleaching" belief – the idea that whiteness stands for the just legitimate form of beauty, the supreme and unquestionable symbol of modernity and progress, whereas blackness symbolizes exactly the opposite. The racist...