I say - replied Sancho - that I confess that I know that it is not dishonorable to call anyone a son of a bitch when it falls below the understanding of praise". Almost everything is written in Don Quixote more than 400 years ago. But it seems that José Manuel Soto did not read Cervantes' masterpiece if we look at the unfortunate comment he made last Friday. It warmed up. What a month of disappointments for the singer after the July 23 election.
"I will take advantage of this moment of summer calm by the sea to make use of my freedom of expression...", he wrote in a post (previously he "tweeted"). So far so good. Spain is a parliamentary democracy, although there are still those who question both aspects. Soto continued: "And screw me [sic] Sánchez (...)" and the people "who agree that Spain is in the hands of its worst enemies". The sentence is not reproduced in its entirety because it is very rude, but you can already imagine what he said.
He must have been very comfortable. But social networks did their job lamenting his dubious education. In a matter of hours, two Andalusian councils canceled the concerts they had contracted with the singer. They are in their right.
Soto lacked time to apologize. In his own way, obviously. "The other night I made an inappropriate comment referring to Sánchez and the people who agree with the destruction of Spain". This legislature Soto will not win for upsets if Sánchez and his allies gain the confidence of Congress.
Social networks are gold if you know how to manage them. And we will give an example. Is Soto's attitude reprehensible? Yes, of course. But Guillermo Zapata, not at all suspicious of sympathizing with the singer, entered the debate stating: "I'm not at all sure that this [censoring whoever offends] is in any way a good idea". "I love Soto more than singing because he has a contract that does not depend on what he tweets", he defended. He doesn't lack reason. For Zapata, "guaranteeing freedom of expression is not something abstract, it is giving strength to the weak part of the relationship with the administration", he added.
Censorship has risks and this is one of them. Companies or administrations that hire artists already know how they think or can get an idea. They don't do it because of their political leanings, but because of their professionalism. For this reason, if recruitments begin to be filtered due to ideological issues, society will suffer. His name is José Manuel Soto or Amaral. It is called parliamentary democracy. And cultural
