A pastry shop in Sant Cugat del Vallés has decided to remove an Easter monkey that was on display in its window. The mona, in dark chocolate, was a woman (black, clear) in a chef's hat and a white apron. The woman was holding two trays, one with a chocolate dog (white) and the other, a brioche (the usual color).
A "feminist and revolutionary" collective from Sant Cugat protested on Twitter (where else) for what was a demonstration of racism, associating black people with chocolate, and of slavery, because it holds two trays. At the end of this article, the denouncing tweet divided into four parts has 56 retweets, 167 likes and 406 quotes. All the leaked quotes are criticisms of the group's protest, which means that about sixty tweets have managed to get all God talking in Holy Week about the monkey from the Sant Cugat patisserie, which was preventively removed from the shop window .
It sounds like a parody, but it's not. It is the dictatorship of posturing and the politically correct pointing out a small business. Racial integrity is necessary, but not using racism as nonsense that leads to a perpetual sense of vulnerability that can escalate into rage. Political and social correctness is leading to antipathy to forced collective struggles, favoring the populist discourse of the extreme right against all these groups.
The news has created the Streisand effect with dark chocolate and will have facilitated an increase in sales (we hope) of the pastry and clickbait in many digital press.
Which would lead us to reflect that a demonstration of sixty people in front of a window of a pastry shop in Sant Cugat has forced its owners to remove an Easter monkey to avoid problems while all the media (paper, digital or audiovisual) we reported on the withdrawal of a piece of dark chocolate and even today, Easter Monday, I have wasted an opinion column of this historical newspaper to comment on what in other times would be an immense beast. Instead, today we have turned it into an absurd debate about dark chocolate and racism. We'll leave the tradition of calling him m ona for next Easter.
