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President Bolsonaro, the recent appointments have been criticized in Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro is not starting a new controversy.

If Damares Alves was appointed Minister for women, family and Human Rights , she announced That this will wear a "new era in Brazil: the boys in blue and girls wear pink".

"no one will call to the girl stop to be princesses and boys princes, we are at the end of this abuse, ideological indoctrination," She Said in her maiden speech as a Minister.

their supporters cheered, her critics saw in her out of date. And your controversial views on the expansion of rights for women continues.

Alves, who is also an Evangelical pastor, anti-abortion, and she's recently launched a campaign to promote abstinence in an effort to support lower stubbornly high rate of teenage pregnancies in Brazil.

loves But Jair Bolsonaro government, to stir. He ribs, the political work in Brazil. And has done it again with a different planting date: Sergio Camargo .

victim mentality,

This Week , The President confirmed That Mr. Camargo, a black journalist, would the management of the Palmares Cultural Foundation. The influential, government-funded Institute is responsible for the promotion and preservation of the cultural, historical, social and economic values of the black society in Brazil.

Mr. Camargo, who describes himself on Social Media as "black right-wing, anti-victimist" - he denied also the real racism exists in Brazil, compared to the USA, where he considers it to be a serious Problem .

demonstrators protested in November against the statements, which was playing down of racism in Brazil

Sergio Camargo ' s appointment controversial from the beginning. His nomination was suspended at the end of last year, after the great criticism. But earlier This Week , the Supreme court decision, which will enable him overruled., The Role and pave the way for Mr Bolsonaro him again

Mr. Camargo responded to the news, calling it a "defeat for the racists on The Left hand side - the victory of a black person who thinks for himself and is free of charge. "

Nutella racism

to describe In a Social Media post last year, he used the term "Nutella racism", the Problem in Brazil. It is a derogatory phrase, which is designed to the younger-Generation substitute Nutella for Avocado Toast in the English-speaking world, perhaps, and you get the gist.

"Black people complain because they are stupid and wrong from The Left ," he said in The Post . He has argued That "Brazil needs a black movement, which is free with his opinions and political decisions, which is otherwise enforce The Victim mentality of The Left -hand side".

Bolsonaro's son, Eduardo, also tweeted after the appeal with the argument That his work would be "immensely important in the struggle against the handcuffs of ideological slavery, which is exposed to Brazil".

Mr Camargo date is argued, has been criticized by people in Brazil, the black communities

But said racial justice academics from the Brazilian centre for analysis and planning, That they regarded his nomination with "fear and outrage", That "he has not represented the anti-racist organizations and social groups who have built this space in The Last few decades".

Sergio Camargo attitude is a minority view now, But one That many in Brazil to Share - this idea That the country is a racial democracy, a place where there is little or no racism in contrast to the USA or Europe.

"thought A lot of people, That The National ideology, there is little or no racism," says the sociologist Edward Telles . The setting has, particularly after The World conference against racism in South Africa in 2001, he.

"Before That , the human race mentioned, it was a taboo subject. Then of this flood, there was still a wave, and it's completely changed," adds Dr. Telles. "Then, from the middle to the end of the 2000s, it was clear That only a few people believed That . "

But these people do Exist - and now they are sitting in positions of power.

Bolsonaro 'a real disaster'

Jair Bolsonaro has Brazil the slave Trade - the largest defended in America.

"The Portuguese did not once set foot in Africa," he said, incorrectly, in a TV interview prior to her election in 2018. "It was the Africans themselves, about handed over the slaves. "

Ana Lucia Araujo, a Brazilian Professor of History at Howard University in Washington DC, says That Mr. Camargo's appointment "is an attempt to destroy That which has been conquered by the Afro-Brazilians and Brazilian black movements since the end of the Military Dictatorship .

"The current government is a true disaster for The Fight against racism and racial inequalities, in the heart of the Brazilian History . "

the rights of Indigenous peoples under threat

This is the second controversial appointment last week.

A former Protestant missionary, Ricardo Lopes Dias, was also the head of the government Department, to protect isolated Indigenous tribes from contact with non-Indigenous population. To convert his previous function as a missionary communities applies to Christianity.

it is, Again, an appointment That has come under fire.

"It is wanted clearly so. Bolsonaro knows exactly what he's doing. He is putting The Fox in charge of the hen house," says Jonathan Mazower of Survival International .

The President has sworn to the Integration of the Indigenous population in the rest of the population

"It is a naked assault, an open and explicit attack on the consensus of The Last three or four decades has been the protection of such people are incredibly vulnerable to outsiders, bring in diseases, quite apart from the violent attacks, which many of you suffered in The Past ", adds Mr. Mazower.

Bolsonaro management often previous left governments of the sowing accused-divisions in Brazil, never existed. But so far his attempts to unite the Brazilians seem to have failed.

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Source of news: bbc.com