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We will see what an insult is, first we will define what an insult is, and an insult is a behaviour, verbal or not, that the insulted receives from the insulter, and this can be defined as a lack of argument from the insulter to the insulted, and that also entails an inferiority complex of the insulter against the Insulted, well, this happens unfortunately every day, and sometimes, with very disastrous consequences, when someone insults another person, it is for the reason that the insulter feels offended, then the reaction of the insulter will be proportional to the behaviour that the insulted takes, if the insulted does not react the insulter will take more drastic measures so that the Insulted reacts, but the insulter cannot always provoke a reaction from the Insulted, for many reasons, or because the Insulted does not pay attention to him, or for various reasons, such as the Insulted does not mean disputes, or physical reasons, or location.
Well now that we have defined the insult, we will see what happened the other day in a football field, where a part of the opposing group’s stands, cheered with insults and shouts at a black Real Madrid player, Vinicius. I was surprised by the reaction, the popularity, in the media, it has been called discrimination, and what is discrimination? In the Royal Spanish Academy, the word Discrimination is to separate or see the difference between two things, and fortunately we do it every day, a stone is different from a tree, and that is all that is Discrimination, now if we see a black, white, yellow or other coloured person, we will first discriminate them, because we must see the difference in colour, and then when we see the colour they have, and that is where the problem comes, which is, when we have discriminated the colour, we should give them the same treatment, but unfortunately, it is not always like that, then it is Discrimination, and this should not be done, but unfortunately it is done.
Well this is Discrimination, but in the case of the Player we have spoken about it has nothing to do with discrimination, but it does have to do with the Insult.
The insult, as I have already said above, is an inferiority complex of the insulter, against the insulted, and the action of the insulter, will be closely related to the behaviour of the insulted, if the insulted does not flinch, the insulter will double the action, to aggravate the insult, if circumstances allow him to do so, in a football field the insult can be only verbal, due to the access or excess of public of the insulter or insulters, but the reason is the same, the player has done a behaviour that the insulter did not like, and the only reaction that the insulter can do is the insult, since the inferiority complex, or call it repression, containment, is the only moderation, because of that complex, which he cannot dominate or solve, and that suffocates him, to the point that on some occasions, it could result in a criminal act, this happens every day, countless times, it always begins with the insult, and it can end badly if the insulter and the insulted are close and alone and the reason for the inferiority complex is serious.
The other day I saw on television a group that were demonstrating in the street against the mayor of Barcelona “Ana Colau”, and they insulted her, calling her “son of a bitch”, the insulted person could not say anything because first of all she was not there, and secondly, even if she had been, she would not have faced an entire crowd, and this is always what the insulter or the insulted person must evaluate.
Well, anyway, the player’s response, for racism, for being black, had more communicative echo in the media and federations, even international ones, than the mayor’s response, for insulting the mother, without the insulters knowing the mother of the mayor, but the truth is, without looking at the degree of offense, that the insulters wanted to offend the insulted, and the insulters achieved their purpose and that was possible, because of the inferiority complex of the insulters, because they could not do anything other than the insult.
For a normal, rational, or intelligent person, insults do not exist, they have no place, since insults are the opposite of reason. If you do not have an argument to explain to the person who is repressing you, or that you do not agree with said behaviour or offense, the only thing you have is an insult, or even a fight or more.
Enric Giné y Orengo