Fetus, baby, embryo, if you feel that if you don’t feel, if at eight weeks of gestation calling it a baby is ultra because at that point it’s nothing, if it happens frequently, if it’s not a big deal… Let me Let me tell you one thing: for a woman who has involuntarily lost the child she is expecting, whatever the week or month it is, it is everything. She is a child, not an embryo or a fetus or an ultrasound image, it is her baby, it is someone she is dreaming of, the present and the future, life itself slipping away, the intense pain.
The networks once again showed their lack of empathy and humanity with the loss of Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the baby she was expecting. More than that, an explosion of hate. Soon “karma” became a trend, some contained comments, “I’m not happy, but…”, that but that invalidates everything previously said. Others already unleashed. No, we are not going to reproduce any of those tweets, nor their protagonists, why publicize meanness, which walks alone.
Rather, let’s do the opposite, let’s talk about those who, being far from Ayuso’s political and personal positions, are capable of differentiating. Ana Pastor, so on everyone’s lips these days, the writer Ana Iris Simón, who has been described as a “nun” for saying that children, “born or not, are the most sacred.” What have we become? Also politicians, of all colors, expressed their solidarity. There is a future, but we have a problem.
A problem called hate, and no, it is not a Twitter thing, we would do well to start calling things by their name: just as the corrupt do not come from under a cabbage, but from a society that pays them, the Hate that is expressed through the networks is not born there, because the network is only the medium. We relativize it due to the supposed lightness that we attribute to Twitter and others.
We have a problem in society and it is called hate. I hate the one who thinks differently, I hate the one who is not from the tribe, I hate the contrary. One is capable of defending the opposite of what one theoretically believes just by thinking that it could benefit the “others”. They would have to read the hateful tweets in response to the hateful tweets towards Ayuso. It’s crazy how we trivialize it.
And for the record that today is the “karma” of the Madrid president, but tomorrow it will be that of another or another from another party. Nobody is left out. There is always that but that comes to justify some reactions that if it were ours we would consider unjustifiable. Comments mostly anonymous. From people who I suppose think that “karma” will not affect them.
