Sep 7, 2021
Exact date"I'm imbrochable."
💡Bolsonaro at anti-government protests on Brazils Independence Day.
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Oct 19, 2020
Exact date"The vaccine will not be mandatory, period."
💡Bolsonaro rejected mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.
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Jan 23, 2020
Exact date"There is no such thing as indigenous lands. We have to integrate Indians into society."
💡Bolsonaro on indigenous land rights.
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January 2020
Month"The Indian is a human being just like us. Want what we want."
💡Bolsonaro claimed that indigenous people should be integrated into society like everyone else.
ContradictionJair Bolsonaro, 2015Bolsonaro once claimed that Indians are people just like us, but at another time he said that Indians are developing, they are more and more people like us - implying that they were not before.
ContradictionJair Bolsonaro, April 2017Bolsonaro claims that Indians are equal, but he dehumanized Afro-Brazilians in quilombos by comparing them to cattle (weighing seven arrobos).
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Aug 22, 2019
Exact date"The Amazon is not on fire. That's a lie."
💡Bolsonaro denied the fires in the Amazon.
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Jan 1, 2019
Exact date"Brazil above all, God above all!"
💡Bolsonaro at his inauguration as president of Brazil.
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Apr 3, 2017
Exact date"I went to a quilombo. The lightest Afro-descendant there weighed seven arrobas. They don't do anything. I don't think it's even useful for procreators anymore."
💡Bolsonaro was convicted by a court in Rio for racist insults. Arroba is a colonial unit used to weigh cattle. UNESCO called for an investigation. The National Movement for Human Rights demanded punishment.
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April 2017
Month"I visited a quilombo. The lightest Afro-descendant there weighed seven arrobas. They are not even useful for procreating anymore."
💡Bolsonaro described visiting a quilombo (community of African slave descendants) and saying the lightest person weighed 230 pounds and they are not even good for procreation.
ContradictionJair Bolsonaro, January 2020Bolsonaro claims that Indians are equal, but he dehumanized Afro-Brazilians in quilombos by comparing them to cattle (weighing seven arrobos).
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Jul 8, 2016
Exact date"The dictatorship's mistake was to torture and not kill."
💡Bolsonaro repeated the controversial phrase about the military dictatorship on the Pânico show (Jovem Pan).
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2015
Year"Indians are evolving. More and more people are human beings like us."
💡Bolsonaro said indigenous people are evolving and more and more they are human beings like us, implying they were not fully human before.
ContradictionJair Bolsonaro, January 2020Bolsonaro once claimed that Indians are people just like us, but at another time he said that Indians are developing, they are more and more people like us - implying that they were not before.
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Dec 9, 2014
Exact date"I wouldn't rape you because you don't deserve it."
💡Bolsonaro told congresswoman Maria do Rosario he would not rape her because she does not deserve it, later defending the statement in an interview.
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2013
Year"We Brazilians don't like homosexuals."
💡In an interview with Stephen Fry for BBC documentary 'Out There', Bolsonaro said 'We Brazilians don't like homosexuals'.
ContextJair Bolsonaro, Mar 27, 2011Bolsonaro has repeatedly expressed extreme homophobia - he said he would rather his son die in an accident than be gay, and that Brazilians don't like homosexuals.
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June 2011
Month"I prefer a son killed in an accident to a homosexual."
💡Bolsonaro also said that having a gay son is due to a lack of beatings. During his government, 175 trans people were murdered in Brazil in 2020, one of the highest numbers in history. Thousands of LGBT Brazilians fled to Portugal.
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June 2011
Month"I'd rather have a son killed in an accident than a homosexual son."
💡In an interview with Playboy Brazil, Bolsonaro said he would prefer a dead son to a gay son.
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Mar 27, 2011
Exact date"If I have a gay son, I would prefer him to die in an accident."
💡Bolsonaro in a television interview.
ContextJair Bolsonaro, 2013Bolsonaro has repeatedly expressed extreme homophobia - he said he would rather his son die in an accident than be gay, and that Brazilians don't like homosexuals.
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April 1998
Month"It is a shame that the Brazilian cavalry was not as efficient as the American cavalry, which exterminated the Indians."
💡Bolsonaro expressed regret that Brazils cavalry was not as efficient as Americas in exterminating indigenous people.
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Contradiction
Bolsonaro once claimed that Indians are people just like us, but at another time he said that Indians are developing, they are more and more people like us - implying that they were not before.
Jair Bolsonaro
"The Indian is a human being just like us. Want what we want."
Jair Bolsonaro
"Indians are evolving. More and more people are human beings like us."
Contradiction
Bolsonaro claims that Indians are equal, but he dehumanized Afro-Brazilians in quilombos by comparing them to cattle (weighing seven arrobos).
Jair Bolsonaro
"The Indian is a human being just like us. Want what we want."
Jair Bolsonaro
"I visited a quilombo. The lightest Afro-descendant there weighed seven arrobas. They are not even useful for procreating anymore."
Context
Bolsonaro has repeatedly expressed extreme homophobia - he said he would rather his son die in an accident than be gay, and that Brazilians don't like homosexuals.
Jair Bolsonaro
"If I have a gay son, I would prefer him to die in an accident."
Jair Bolsonaro
"We Brazilians don't like homosexuals."
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