[Notthereyet]

“I’ll just link some of these articles. I haven’t read them but I saw the dates fit my timeline. Sorry, I know it’s unpleasant but people should know.”
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Caipirabob, read quite a few of the links. So alarming. I wonder about the fates of those youngsters mentioned and quoted in the articles. I know it was, and is just about as dangerous for those who go out unto the streets to help those youngsters. Sigh.

[Caipirabob]

Oh it's bad. I still kept going back. Carnaval and all that. I have friends I call family down there and even though they were liberal back in those days they have become the Brasilian equivalent of hard core right wingers. Going to take a lot more than a few elections to change the mess down there.

And simply put, they do not, as a society, place the level of value on life that we do here. A lady I knew who's father had escaped the holocaust had summarily dismissed the homeless as "No longer people, they have become animals". It's bad having been raised with someone who experienced that nightmare and still being able to say something like that.