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Uproar after Argentina president says ‘Brazilians came from the jungle’

Misjudged comments to prime minister of Spain sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe

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Misjudged comments to prime minister of Spain sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe

Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, has triggered a Twitter storm and a regional race debate with misjudged comments to visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain that sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe.

“The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe,” Fernández said, referring to the many European migrants who arrived in the country. He later apologized for the comments and said his country’s diversity was something to be proud of.

Fernández seems to have taken the phrase from a song by local musician Lito Nebbia, of whom the president has declared himself an admirer on more than one occasion.

The comments sparked a viral response on social media, with many criticizing the center-left leader for racial insensitivity.

“I did not mean to offend anyone, in any case, whoever has felt offended or invisible, I give my apologies,” he said on Twitter.

Brazilian media ran Fernandez’s statements on Wednesday and many on social media joked that rightwing President Jair Bolsonaro would enjoy getting back at the leftwing Argentine leader, with whom he has not always seen eye to eye.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman and the Brazilian president’s son, slammed the comments as “racist” and shot a retort back at Argentina over its troubled economy, in recession since 2018.

“I say the ship that is sinking is that of Argentina,” he posted on Twitter.

Netizens on YouTube posted replies under a video of the speech, expressing anger or unease.

“Excuse me, Mexican and Brazilian friends, on behalf of all Argentines we feel a lot of embarrassment. You know how much we love you, and your countries and customs,” said one user under the name Barbara Bongiovanni.

 

[Stoneheart]

I like the mask on the soldier in the back.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

It's true

 

[Ahriman]

"Stop xenophilia xenophobia, latin americans are all the same"

 

[Burgerasssand]

>argentina

You subhuman baboon. You literal nigger.

How dare you speak, you swarthy jungle monkey. How dare you open your big lipped, rim encrusted, menthol cigarette smelling mouth?

You are human trash, Diego Tyrone LeShawn de Maradona. Universally despised, derided and mocked. Your nationality and skin tone offers no hope to the world that South America can ever prosper. Crawl back in to the Brazilian jungle you came out of, you literal orangutan.

I hope you decide to sail your grandfathers skip to the Falklands and rape some sheep, as is in the negroes nature. It would still be the whitest pussy you ever had. Give Nigel and Robert a chance for some target practice, your sole use to the world. Argentinians obsession with a few windswept islands in the Atlantic is hilarious but sad. Coincidentally its the only worthwhile contribution Argentina has made to the medical field. The MUH LAS MALVINAS sentiment in the average negro Argentinian is both an early warning sign of autism in children, and early on set Alzheimer's in adults.

Take your black hairy fingers off your keyboard, and never talk about the human species again, you mockery of our supposed shared ancestor.. No amount of olive oil and wheat flour slabbed on your face every morning will make you white. It's about as delusional of an idea as your daydreams of European heritage.

You nigger.

You make Bolivia look like a beacon of civilisation.

You are the Baltimore of South America.

Go fertilise the pampas with you and your families corpses, its the best you can hope for in life. For the first time in your life, nigger, you have a job making food for beings vastly superior to yourself. Uruguayan cattle. Coincidentally, it would be the first time an Argentinian "man" provided for a family.

Die, Diego. No one would miss you. Except for Australian Aboriginals, who now would have no one to make them look good.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

You can deliberately ruin your own country and run away with it. But being racist and xenophobic? That's where journos and the international community draw the line.

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

>argentina

You subhuman baboon. You literal nigger.

How dare you speak, you swarthy jungle monkey. How dare you open your big lipped, rim encrusted, menthol cigarette smelling mouth?

You are human trash, Diego Tyrone LeShawn de Maradona. Universally despised, derided and mocked. Your nationality and skin tone offers no hope to the world that South America can ever prosper. Crawl back in to the Brazilian jungle you came out of, you literal orangutan.

I hope you decide to sail your grandfathers skip to the Falklands and rape some sheep, as is in the negroes nature. It would still be the whitest pussy you ever had. Give Nigel and Robert a chance for some target practice, your sole use to the world. Argentinians obsession with a few windswept islands in the Atlantic is hilarious but sad. Coincidentally its the only worthwhile contribution Argentina has made to the medical field. The MUH LAS MALVINAS sentiment in the average negro Argentinian is both an early warning sign of autism in children, and early on set Alzheimer's in adults.

Take your black hairy fingers off your keyboard, and never talk about the human species again, you mockery of our supposed shared ancestor.. No amount of olive oil and wheat flour slabbed on your face every morning will make you white. It's about as delusional of an idea as your daydreams of European heritage.

You nigger.

You make Bolivia look like a beacon of civilisation.

You are the Baltimore of South America.

Go fertilise the pampas with you and your families corpses, its the best you can hope for in life. For the first time in your life, nigger, you have a job making food for beings vastly superior to yourself. Uruguayan cattle. Coincidentally, it would be the first time an Argentinian "man" provided for a family.

Die, Diego. No one would miss you. Except for Australian Aboriginals, who now would have no one to make them look good.

Everything about this is so detailed and specific, I really feel like I’m *inside* authentic South American racism.

10/10 would immerse again.

 

[Dagobert]

You make Bolivia look like a beacon of civilisation.

I don't think I've ever heard a more destructive insult towards a people than these words, holy shit.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

It's true

1/3rd true. The other 2/3rds are a combination of slaves and Portuguese expats

Everything about this is so detailed and specific, I really feel like I’m *inside* authentic South American racism. And I’m not even particularly racist except toward black women who want to soul murder white children.

10/10 would immerse again.

Its funny. The minute you leave the US and all its woke propaganda about how POCs love each other and are united against whitey, you realize just how much everyone fucking hates everyone for the most petty reasons. I've heard that accusing someone of having mixed ancestry down in South America is fighting words or that people will try and play up certain racial aspects where having Indian heritage is more desirable than having African heritage, but don't you ever bring that up. Whole situation down south is just fucked up.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

1/3rd true. The other 2/3rds are a combination of slaves and Portuguese expats


Its funny. The minute you leave the US and all its woke propaganda about how POCs love each other and are united against whitey, you realize just how much everyone fucking hates everyone for the most petty reasons. I've heard that accusing someone of having mixed ancestry down in South America is fighting words or that people will try and play up certain racial aspects where having Indian heritage is more desirable than having African heritage, but don't you ever bring that up. Whole situation down south is just fucked up.

You don't even need to leave the US. Blacks in America hate blacks in Africa, and vice versa. The American blacks think that the Africans are softies who have never experienced true hardship and racism in their lives, while Africans view American blacks as spoiled, lazy, and entitled, and take every opportunity to remind American blacks of who exactly sold them to whitey.

 

[Maurice Caine]

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

“The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe,” Fernández said, referring to the many European migrants who arrived in the country.

And what do the Europeans think of all this?

They don't. Because the Euros who left for Argentina were no longer worth thinking about. And neither are their offspring.

Being "white" in South America is like being king of the shitpit. It's colonization's cruel consolation prize.

 

[Becomemysoulreaver]

"Argentinians are natural enemies of Chileans,
like Argentinians and Brazilians,
or Argentinians and Uruguayans,
or Argentinians and Mexicans,
or Argentinians and other Argentinians.
Damn Argentinians, they ruined Argentina!"

 

[No. 7 cat]

Brazilans are a pure white master race, the Argies are wrong, huehuehue.

 

[whatever I feel like]

“Excuse me... Brazilian friends, on behalf of all Argentines we feel a lot of embarrassment. You know how much we love you, and your countries and customs,” said one user under the name Barbara Bongiovanni.

What a cuck. They are your rival, you have to at least be jokingly racist towards them.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Always choose the one that can make white babies. Don't make more jungle people. Argentina is right.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

He's not wrong, even if he said it in a terrible way and unsuccessfully tried to quote someone else who said it better.

 

[Gay_Frog]

>argentina

You subhuman baboon. You literal nigger.

How dare you speak, you swarthy jungle monkey. How dare you open your big lipped, rim encrusted, menthol cigarette smelling mouth?

You are human trash, Diego Tyrone LeShawn de Maradona. Universally despised, derided and mocked. Your nationality and skin tone offers no hope to the world that South America can ever prosper. Crawl back in to the Brazilian jungle you came out of, you literal orangutan.

I hope you decide to sail your grandfathers skip to the Falklands and rape some sheep, as is in the negroes nature. It would still be the whitest pussy you ever had. Give Nigel and Robert a chance for some target practice, your sole use to the world. Argentinians obsession with a few windswept islands in the Atlantic is hilarious but sad. Coincidentally its the only worthwhile contribution Argentina has made to the medical field. The MUH LAS MALVINAS sentiment in the average negro Argentinian is both an early warning sign of autism in children, and early on set Alzheimer's in adults.

Take your black hairy fingers off your keyboard, and never talk about the human species again, you mockery of our supposed shared ancestor.. No amount of olive oil and wheat flour slabbed on your face every morning will make you white. It's about as delusional of an idea as your daydreams of European heritage.

You nigger.

You make Bolivia look like a beacon of civilisation.

You are the Baltimore of South America.

Go fertilise the pampas with you and your families corpses, its the best you can hope for in life. For the first time in your life, nigger, you have a job making food for beings vastly superior to yourself. Uruguayan cattle. Coincidentally, it would be the first time an Argentinian "man" provided for a family.

Die, Diego. No one would miss you. Except for Australian Aboriginals, who now would have no one to make them look good.

He successfully granted malvinas to England another generation because it was caused so much union that say fuck Argentina and make my dream of Brazil leaving the mercosul isn't so impossible.