Ignorance and justification for Franco on TikTok: The cocktail that pushes young people towards historical revisionism
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-02-09/ignorance-and-justification-for-franco-on-tiktok-the-cocktail-that-pushes-young-people-towards-historical-revisionism.html
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Social media was a mistake.
The article in Spanish (usad 12ft.io)
https://elpais.com/espana/2025-02-02/desconocimiento-y-apologia-del-franquismo-en-tik-tok-el-coctel-que-empuja-a-jovenes-al-revisionismo-historico.html
I wonder if the purposeful, wilful silence about the Franco era should in part be blamed. It happened because it was such recent memory, and so many people had been in some way involved and forced to be complicit to survive, and felt such shame they wanted no one to speak of it again. Unlike in Germany where the horrors of totalitarianism has been required to be taught in schools, in Spain no such thing happened. Perhaps this was an error that the dark forces are now exploiting.
The beauty of the internet is you find people interested in really specific ideas and hobbies that you also like. But this doesn’t stop at good ideas. It’s really helped the decrepit far right assholes across the globe organize. I remember visiting Spain the first time and realizing halfway through my first meal with my host family that they were totally fascists. It was the first time I’d met a “Franco did nothing wrong” idiot. From there on out I spent my time at my girlfriend’s place and only occasionally popped in for some food.
When you think of the rise of the far right, the people who most benefit from that are authoritarian states. Putin needed this shift to be more comfortable. If the world is an open place he can’t exist easily. Same with the Saudi’s and china. I’m typing this watching my own country struggle to cope with an attempted right wing coup in the USA, something I’d just never thought would happen. It’s been empowered by online radicalization. Before 2012-2013 no young person would be caught being a conservative in a city.
Las redes sociales, en general, deben ser reguladas y descentralizadas. Pero TikTok es, en mi opinión, un caso particularmente grave. Es puro veneno social.
Si de mí dependiese, ma prohibiría en toda la UE.