Red Cross: taking in a young Black man sparks controversy
A Red Cross employee taking a young Black man into her home has set social media alight, with accusations of a hoax and suspicions of double standards.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The private act of charity by a Red Cross worker has become a digital state affair. Charo, an employee of the organization, took a young Black man into her home and the internet exploded. The version circulating is neither unanimous nor verified, but the scandal is already a fact.
One first block of reactions harshly condemns what it sees as a double standard: a society that applauds institutional hosting campaigns punishes the individual gesture, all the more so when the protagonist is a middle-aged woman and the guest a young man. Another block suspects the whole thing is a staged farce to gain income, whether financial or in notoriety, without a shred of evidence having been presented. And some openly raise legal doubts about hosting a person who may be in an irregular situation.
Most revealing, however, is the direction the conversation took: within hours the argument was replaced by personal attacks and crude jokes. That downward slope has a name: the parallel trial to which any anonymous person is exposed as soon as the outrage machine puts them in its crosshairs.
If the case is real, the Red Cross will have to explain more than the presumption of innocence of its employee. If it is false, it will have been proven that the algorithm of outrage runs on any fuel.
One first block of reactions harshly condemns what it sees as a double standard: a society that applauds institutional hosting campaigns punishes the individual gesture, all the more so when the protagonist is a middle-aged woman and the guest a young man. Another block suspects the whole thing is a staged farce to gain income, whether financial or in notoriety, without a shred of evidence having been presented. And some openly raise legal doubts about hosting a person who may be in an irregular situation.
Most revealing, however, is the direction the conversation took: within hours the argument was replaced by personal attacks and crude jokes. That downward slope has a name: the parallel trial to which any anonymous person is exposed as soon as the outrage machine puts them in its crosshairs.
If the case is real, the Red Cross will have to explain more than the presumption of innocence of its employee. If it is false, it will have been proven that the algorithm of outrage runs on any fuel.
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