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“Inept and irresponsible, Salvador Illa is behind the negligent and criminal management of the pandemic,” Garriga said.
“That management can be summed up in two words: death and ruin. And I’m going to repeat that because I know many of you watching from home have been saying that for months: death and ruin.”
Garriga’s apocalyptic tones, coupled with his reminder of how long the COVID-19 crisis has now lasted, may have boosted Vox’s chances of garnering support from some Catalan voters who are exhausted by the remorseless impact of the pandemic and looking for someone to blame – or to give it a shorthand description, pandemic fatigue.
. Why do we need yet another law?
All the existing legislation in Europe and also in Belgium focuses only on the individual level of racism, so how individuals discriminate against each other. Everything structural – for instance, discrimination in the labour market, or Zwarte Piet – and everything institutional, for instance, police brutality, is not covered by these frameworks.
What would you say the significance of the has been? Has it changed how Belgians think about racial discrimination and racism?
First of all, there has never been a time or period in history where we could talk as much about racism and solutions against racism as now and we need to applaud that. Although, for a person of colour, it’s quite surprising that people only understood that racism exists after [the death of] George Floyd. But this is a pivotal moment in history, so we can only be thankful for this opportunity.