With holy indignation, the cacique to withdraw from Borriana four magazines whose subscription is paid has awakened awareness of censorship in sectors of Catalonia. Welcome! It was about time...
Cultural censorship in Spain is healthy: whoever pays controls. And administrations have been exercising it for some time now based on their ideology. This nefarious tutelage has had the most serious cases in Barcelona in recent times, protected by the same ones who today raise the cry to heaven with Borriana.
I would need a book to remember the degradation of freedom of expression and the whitewashing of censorship in my city. This is not the case, hence this selection.
Aula Magna of the University of Barcelona, academic tribute to Miguel de Cervantes, June 2018. Students and some professors break up the event, physically intimidate and force the attendees to evacuate, like criminals, through the side doors, amid shouts of "fascists outside the university!". Administrative silence.
Exhibition of the World Press Photo at the CCCB of 2013. The organizers choose as poster the photo of the second prize, a chilling portrait - and I would say anti-bull, like the goyesque disasters of war - of Juan José Padilla, born by a horn. Mano i disposo: the Barcelona City Council prohibits and censors the exhibition posters... That's it, without further ado. They must have thought that was Spanish art. Administrative silence. Giggles from ear to ear.
Deputy Álvarez de Toledo was supposed to speak at an event at the UAB in 2019. A provocation! Physical mockery, humiliating in democratic terms, which resulted in the triumph of intolerance. Again, giggles. Who did this lady think she was? By the way, the physique was played...
Vox's excesses - or where they give them they take them - may finally awaken the conscience of many institutions in Catalonia that had normalized censorship and that radically anti-democratic idea that if the people vote for something, it becomes a bar free to break laws. Because in Borriana they have put and decided the polls...
