Jairo Henoch Guzmán, executive director of PAMI in that province, published a photo of the flag of the LGBT community engulfed in flames.
The president of La Libertad Avanza Santa Cruz, Jairo Henoch Guzmánpublished a violent homophobic message on his social networks, which showed a photo of the flag of the LGBT community engulfed in flames, which he later ended up deleting.
The illustration was accompanied by the message: “In Argentina only the light blue and white one!“, something that many users repudiated since it represents a direct attack on the LGBT community and incitement to hatred.
Guzmán expressed with his message the coexistence of symbols that represent diversity and its absolute coexistence with national symbols. This generated a strong wave of criticism on social networks, where thousands of people showed their indignation at this act of symbolic violence.
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Strong rejection of the publication
“I hope it is repudiated by everyone. A better society is not built by setting fire to those who feel different”expressed a user on X (formerly Twitter), in a publication that quickly went viral.
Guzmán is also executive director of PAMI in Santa Cruz and their posts were filled with emojis of the multicolored flag as a form of symbolic protest.
Some of the notable comments were: “In his mind he thought it was epic to upload this photo, dear mommy,” “We repudiate the message that promotes violence, hatred and systematic ignorance,” and “Homophobia should be a crime.”
In addition, many people asked for his resignation, alleging that it was an act incompatible with democratic values and respect for human rights.
Source: Ambito
