‘Ɖe twist ɖ mesij’: Bṛziłn raitr fesz îr v Bolsonaro bacrz
(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 6 September 2022)
Julián Fuks rsivz deʈ̓rets ovr coḷm cōlñ fr ‘terrist’ t rīrait Bṛzil’z hisṭri
Andru Dǎni, Tyzde 6 Sptmbr 2022
Ɖe cd b elimnts in a teṛfayñ novl: ɖ pytrid hart v a loñ-ded emprr, a contṛvrśl nyzpepr coḷm bî a prîz-winñ oʈr, n onlîn atacs bî ɖ sunz v a far-rît prezidnt.
In Bṛzil, ɖo, ɖ storilînz r ol tù riyl, ispeṣ́li fr ɖ noṿlist Julián Fuks.
H wz haṛst, snt antiṣmitic abys n rsivd deʈ̓rets last wīc aftr pubḷśñ a ʈinli dsgîzd p’lemic agnst Bṛzil’z xtrimist prezidnt, Jair Bolsonaro.
Ɖ coḷm wz tîtld “Wontd, a terrist ceṗbl v a sutl act ɖt trnsformz hisṭri”, bt ɖ articl md clir ɖ sumnz wz mnt in a fiğṛtiv sns.
Publiśt a wīc bfr Bṛzil seḷbrets ɖ 200ʈ aṇvrsri v its indipndns fṛm Porćgl – a seḷbreśn ɖt includz ɖ prizrvd hart v Bṛzil’z frst indipndnt rūlr, ɖ Porćgīz rījnt Dom Pedro I – Fuks sd a “terrist” wz rqîrd t rīrait Bṛziłn hisṭri.
“Nt wn v ɖoz vayḷnt wnz, abṣlutli nt an intolṛnt, brūtiś wn, nvr wn v ɖoz hu z bludi n cōrs,” h rout on ɖ UOL websait, wn v Bṛzil’z bigist. “Smbdi hu wl mc ɖ cuntri recnsîl itslf t its past, nt in its harś n unmrsifl sîd, bt in its vast hisṭri v strugl n rzistns.”
Ɖ sutltiz wr ignord bî Bṛzil’z faŗît, huz wel-ôld propganḍmśīn cranct intu ax́n.
Bolsonaro’z sun, Seṇtr Flávio Bolsonaro, rītwītd ɖ pìs wɖ ɖ coment: “Ɖ left ʈreṭnñ dmocṛsi, fr riyl.”
Hiz bruɖr Carlos – btwn ɖm ɖe hv 4.6 miłn folowrz – olso śerd it onlîn. On Insṭgram, Bolsonaro’z formr culćrministr Mario Frias sd: “UOL coḷmnist crîz ǎt fr terrizm agnst ɖ prezidnt.”
Ɖ cntrovsi wz recgnîzbl fr Fuks, ɖ oʈr v et bcs, ɖ frst v ẃć, Rzistns, wún Bṛzil’z prestijs Jabuti prîz in 2016.
Dez aftr Bolsonaro wz ilectd, h wornd in a presịnt Gardịn articl v “a dstopia tecñ śep in mî cuntri”.
Ɖ 40-yir-old huncrd dǎn in São Paulo in ɖ dez aftr ɖ abys startd bt hz sins hit bac.
“I yzd ɖ wrd terrist in a fiğṛtiv sns,” h sd, “n startñ wɖ ɖ oṗnñlîn I afrmd ɖt ɖ pṛpozl wz agnst ol cndz v vayḷns, trukḷns, brūtaḷti n cōrsnis.”
“Bt I unḍesṭmetd hǎ dsonist ɖ faŗît wd b,” h tld ɖ Gardịn. “I ń I cd b criṭsîzd n I ń it wz pṛvoc̣tiv bt I nvr imajind ɖ’d dstort it n lai abt it qt so mć. Ɖe dd’nt īvn trî t unḍstand, ɖe sòt t twist ɖ mesij n trnsform it intu smʈñ it wz’nt.”
Ɖoz tactics r grimli fmiłr t uɖr raitrz hu hv fest ɖ îr v Bolsonaro n hiz ac̣lîts. A Senit invstgeśn sd guvnmnt’fiślz ofn coorḍnet onlîn atacs fṛm ẃt z noun az “ɖ Ofis v Het.”
Poḷtiśnz, publiśrz n litrri figrz cndemd ɖ ofnsiv, wɖ Porćgl’z José Saramago Fǎndeśn cōlñ on locl oʈoṛtiz t “gaṛnti [Fuks’z] n hiz faṃli’z sefti n invstget ɖ oṛjin v ɖ atacs”.
Ɖ afer z ptiklrli alarmñ az it cmz jst a munʈ bfr ɖ frst-rnd v votñ in a preẓdnśl ilex́n ɖt pits Bolsonaro agnst hiz neṃsis, ɖ formr prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Lula līdz in most poulz, bt Bolsonaro hz hintd h wl nt gv p pǎr f bìtn at ɖ baḷtbox.
Bʈ sîdz hv upt ɖer reṭric in rīsnt wīcs, n Bolsonaro’z s’portrz hv atact Lula’z raliz wɖ crūd dvîsz cntenñ fīsīz n yrin.
Aftr a Wrcrz’-parti membr wz śot ded bî a Bolsonaro bacr in Jlî, Lula tc t wẹrñ a bŭlit-prūf vst on campenstops.
Bolsonaro’z nxt big rali z scejld fr Copacabana bīć on 7 Sptmbr n it z ɖt Indipndns De ivnt ɖt promtd Fuks t rait hiz coḷm.
Ɖ seḷbreśnz hv bn gvn an xtra frīsõ ɖs yir bî ɖ rtrn v Dom Pedro’z formalḍhîd-prizrvd hart.
Aftr h daid in 1834, Dom Pedro’z bodi rmend in Bṛzil bt hiz hart wz tecn t Porto. It wz floun t Bṛziła in a goldn ŕn last wīc, ẃr it wz grītd wɖ militri onrz.
Fuks’z pìs z dsmisiv v ɖ ʈiytr arnd ɖ “rotn hart” tur n śon a criticl lît on Bṛzil’z latr-de probḷmz.
Ɖ terrist rqîrd, h rout, śd b “smbdi hu nz hǎ t brñ a sūṭbl end t ɖ hart v a slf-pṛclemd emprr, in ordr t rstor t ɖ ppl ɖer ǒn hart, red n alîv”.
