If you don’t give your opinion about any of the things happening around you, you are nobody. Especially if your opinion is negative. Just ask Amaia Montero, once again the singer of La Oreja de Van Gogh, who has started her concert tour. Social media has been filled with short videos where she was out of tune. Do we really have to pour so much hatred on a person who has confessed to going through an emotional hell and is now trying to rebuild her career? I know it’s funnier to show your fangs, the sharper the better, and to write sarcastically that La Oreja de Van Gogh is about to tear off the other ear. Funny, yes. Cruel, too. Empathy is not at its peak.
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It is also happening to Edu Casanova. After the premiere of Sidosa, now on the Atresplayer platform, a documentary where he tells what it has meant for him to live with HIV since he was 17 years old. A tough experience that he believed sharing could help him and at the same time thousands of people who continue living with HIV in silence. Well, despite all those circumstances, Edu has caught some heat. And many criticize without even watching the film. I’m not making this up, they have told it themselves. There are even those who have published their film review without seeing the documentary. Some real characters.
The minimal levels of empathy have been seen in the way some politicians treated a group of passengers on a ship with a European flag, surprised by another virus little known here. And those making the journey were rich. Imagine if they had been future unaccompanied minors.
Yamal, overwhelm them with your street dribbling, cheeky, from someone who knows who their own are
Hatred triumphs. Do-goodism is bad and evil is good. A schoolyard bully leads one of the world powers, because American citizens voted for him overwhelmingly for the second time, and from there anything is possible.
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The one who has outplayed the game in these times of hatred is Lamine Yamal. In the celebrations celebrating a title, we have seen all kinds of things. From the player who decided to bullfight with a Spanish flag, to the one who took out an independence flag. In both cases, they received criticism from those who do not think like them. But it did not escalate further.
Lamine asked a fan for the Palestinian flag in the middle of the celebration parade in Barcelona, to everyone’s surprise. I am told and I don’t believe it. That a football star with millions of followers gets involved in that garden, whether out of unconsciousness or militancy, never ceases to surprise me. And it unsettles the whole world, used to the political docility of elite footballers. On top of that, the flag is homemade, nothing marketing-like, with a long stick, disproportionate to the size of the fabric. All very guerrilla. Very 15-M, now that the 15th anniversary of the indignados movement is being celebrated. A Palestinian flag, symbol of the conflict of conflicts, in one of the most protesting cities in the Western world. In the country that has most openly confronted Israel and Donald Trump in this almost universal conflict.
The next day pro-Israeli influencers appeared tearing their official Barça shirts, the ones costing 140 euros at the Barça Store. It seems that doesn’t come from there. They want to scare Lamine and warn him not to do it again. That this is not the path children who want to be Lamine should follow. Fight for just causes. Stand on the side of the weaker. Empathize with those who suffer. It is not common among football stars, nor do they want it to be. Don’t listen to them, Lamine, and overwhelm them with your street dribbling, cheeky, even unconscious, dribbling from someone who knows who their own are.
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