Fucking bullfighting

Am I right when I seriously doubt that we are in the 21^st  Century?. I’m asking this question because in Spaininistan it has (again) started the bullfighting season, a torture-practice that can only be explained by sadists and animal killers and that is presented as a “Spanish cultural tradition”. Before continue reading, please take a look to this short video:

I would also like to share with you this website that we fully support: http://www.stopbullfighting.org.uk/facts.htm. Please take a look to it because it perfectly explains all the steps of this torture, from the pre-fighting treatment to the assassination of the animal.

However, the aim of these posts is a different one; what we really try to counter-argument is how this practice is sold all around the World as a typical, inherent, intrinsic, feature of the Spanish culture. In our opinion, behind this there is a clear and evident political interest which is aligned with an old-fashion and mellow centralist conception of Spanish nationalism. This centralism pretends to defend the existence of an ancient “españolidad” (Spanishness) with a rooted tradition, culture, language and use of power.

This is just the first post about a long-debated, discussed and controversial issue. But, from now on, we would like to make the point clear: we are neither Spanish-nationalist, nor regionalist-nationalists (Catalan, Vasc-country, etc.); what we hate and we want to denounce here is the systematic use of Madrid-centered political power in order to defend, promote and even impose this artificial perspective of what is “Spanish” and what is not. This deserves the classification as a Spainistan attitude.

The question could also be just funny till the moment it becomes a national reason for confrontation between Spainistanis; this is what happened when Catalonia, in particular Barcelona, decided to ban bullfighting in their territories, a measure that was taken in the regional (national) Catalan Congress and that immediately generated an overreaction from the most conservative powers in Spanin, mainly in Madrid. Some of them were the public declaration of bullfighting as “tradition of public interest” for Spainistan, with the immediate consequence of public funds’ allocation for the promotion of this barbaric practice.

Last but not least: the government of the missing-in-action President, Mr. Mariano Rajoy and their main henchmen, starting by the ultra-neoliberal President of Madrid region, Ms. Esperanza Aguirre, has been to publicly announce that they will restore the obligation to run bullfighting in Catalonia throughout Congress law.

As you can imagine, this is obviously the first top priority in Spainistan… The war (another war!) between the mellow Spanistan centralism and the regional-nationalism is opened. To be followed up.

A hurt former Spaniard.