My released:

When a few weeks ago Plácido Domingo faced the testimonies of 17 women - all anonymous except Patricia Wulf - included, after proclaiming their innocence, this paragraph: "However, I recognize that the rules and standards by which we are, and must be measured today, they are very different from what they were in the past. " Rules and standards are somewhat inaccurate words in this context. So maybe I can give you an interpretation. One rule, for example, is not to force someone to do what they don't want. A standard, or better, a custom, is to shake hands; or collide it, which is much more hygienic, given the more than three thousand bacteria of 150 different species that, according to the University of Colorado, live on average in the hands.

The tenor is right when he suggests that the customs of courtship have changed. 40 years ago it was common for men to try their luck by bringing their lips to their lips and even kissing them. The dance included diverse movements. There could even be that of a slight initial rejection of the beauty that was only the inflammatory prologue of his acceptance to the next attempt, a satisfactory emphasis on the rhetoric of delivery. Few warmer things, in effect, than the defeated resistance. The irresistible imposition of passion against all logic and convenience, and the culminating glory of nature in the face of any objection from culture.

Such an approach is dangerous today. Especially if it is miscalculated and failure occurs. Better ask if I can kiss you. Well managed, in addition, the question does not have to lead to bureaucracy and the constants can be kept alive. There will be timeless women who will continue to consider it a harassment, but it is likely that life imprisonment can be avoided.

Therefore, the tenor is right about customs: they cannot be judged correctly from today. Access to the woman's body was governed by other codes. Obviously, codes do not operate in a vacuum and express a way of conceiving relationships between people. But the important thing for us is that men and women accepted those codes and the underlying relationships. The tenor does not have to apologize , 30 years later, for having tried to kiss a woman and slippery and unfortunately 17 times in the calculation.

Another thing is the rules. 30 years ago the abuse of power was an immorality as it is today. The degree of permissiveness could vary when it came to projecting it on women, but only to a certain extent: no matter how much I try to make a bad feminist faith believe, for the vast majority of men rape has always been a crime. Similarly, morality and laws have been establishing for many decades that all human beings are equal and that no discrimination based on their origin can be exercised against them. This was already valid, for example, in 1936 when Pío Baroja wrote these lines:

"Askenazin has been spent in Germany and Poland for more than five centuries in an obscure attitude of servitude, always humiliated, dominated by purely mechanical and verbal superstitions. German or Polish askenazin is rude, rude, bad-looking, often ragged and repulsive. (...)

Among the Jews of Germany and Poland, the least ethnic purity is not noticed. Already the primitive majority was not purely Semitic of origin. It was ethnic chaos, a set of outcast races. They have mixed in new countries as poor and wandering people mix. His women have suffered rapes in the pogroms of the ghettos (...) A Sephardic meeting is decorative, a meeting of Ashkenazites looks sad. This may have been one of the reasons for the violent anti-Semitism that has developed in Germany, Poland and especially in Romania. The Sephardim have been people with more elegant, more elaborate customs, with a very hierarchical society, instead the Askenazin are the opposite, they form a mixed social conglomerate, confusing, without any homogeneity, with few scruples, without any elegance, no delicacy. "

No law punished, as in some countries it might have done today, these words. Nor in the 60s there was criminal punishment for the words -like- that Jordi Pujol dedicated to the Andalusians . And there is little news, in the past, of judges who intercepted cases of labor discrimination against women: for example, who were to offer sex to get a job. But, regardless of the absence of criminal reproach, these behaviors - their justification - should not be subsumed in the environment. Neither in 1936 nor has it ever been mandatory to sign anti-Semitic paragraphs. It is likely that most societies were anti-Semitic. But ethical value is often based on the ability to say no to the environment. And the moral progress that, of course, exists. There is no "standard" that can justify the alleged abuses of power of the tenor. There is no environment that frees this phrase from Baroja (with which he concluded Difference between the Jews in Freedom from submission , Caro Raggio, 2001) of its catastrophic nature: "It is quite suspicious to assume that the entry of Jews into life of the European nations has been made in good faith. " This does not imply that purifying fire and subsequent extinction have to be projected on such opinions or on its author, as the political correctness intends to do. On the contrary, these opinions must be displayed so that the critical judgment subtracts them from the greatness due to their author ... and to his time.

I hope, libe , that all this leads you to draw the unpleasant contemporary and correct conclusions. All those - no, not even now you will be able to get off the generic - who trample with impunity the presumption of innocence; that destroy lives, careers and farms with lies; who obscenely raise sex when merit does not come to them, this sort of positive pouting ; that they do not hesitate in the ideological imposition to paralyze the advance of science or to use censorship to submit to the discrepancy, including aesthetics; that adapt the laws to injustice by wielding the dark social climate; that they extend upon pleasure a permanent suspicion based only on resentment; that they place the living to take responsibility for the crimes of the dead and that they invoke the dead to legitimize their arbitrariness over the living; that rebuff the rules of nature with the massive spokesman of their opinions; All those, in short, who today try to extend their experiment of social control to the most hidden fold of intimacy and whose sweet moral always exposed does not hide the acreage consequences of their actions, will not be able to take refuge in the environment when they face the sentence of the weather. Among other reasons for the tiny - but proud and mine - that is written here.

And blind your way.

TO.

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