The image of the 17 activists of the tugboat Open Arms singing the Bella Ciao in the port of Lampedusa will remain as one of the most abject scenes of that teenage cartoon, shackled by the communist epic, which, under humanitarian alibis, the populists call today Leftist fight against fascism . Unlike partisans, however, it is not their life that the members of the Spanish NGO have put into play. They did not even face the Nazi occupation forces and their Italian allies, those yes, fascists. In this case, there have been 163 immigrants and refugees who have had to spend 19 days on board in a "high-risk situation" for the businessman Oscar Camps and his volunteer crew to claim to have "defeated" Matteo Salvini , a leading circumstantial of Italian xenophobic populism.

"Racism," writes Jiménez Lozano in Racists (one of the articles that Huerga & Fierro included in the collection Neither sale nor rent), "is not something that comes to man from the outside, like a plague, let's take the case (. ..) It is a primary feeling of our biological nature, instinctual reaction, then sometimes folded by ideological constructions . " Reactionary or progressive. Because the fear of the other, of the different, does not manifest itself only in attitudes of rejection and hatred protected by ideologies of the extreme right. Also, in feelings of contempt for life, conceived as an instrument for the attainment of a greater goal, usually utopian, an objective whose achievement would justify death or at least sacrifice . Going out in search of abandoned immigrants in international waters and anchoring in front of Europe until some country takes over them forced by public opinion is a manifestation as obscene as others of a revolutionary messianic conception of political and social justice . Avengers like Camps are so necessary, it is justified, like those protagonists embodied by Chuck Norris who corrected police incompetence and arrived where the law became impotent.

But entrepreneurs like Camps also serve to show that, even if immigration is an irresolvable short-term problem, the EU cannot even delegate its responsibility by paying authoritarian regimes such as Turkey or Morocco to do dirty work, nor let Human traffickers operate with impunity from the failed Libyan territory. Because where the democratic state renounces its ethical convictions , the mafias and the righteous heroes occupy the scene.

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