Totalitarian Tendency Watch: Arepita de manteca...
…pa’mamá que da la…
A press release sent out by the Ministry of Information and Communications this week reaches an absurd new low in terms of politicizing the eminently apolitical. A note on the government’s commitment to encourage breastfeeding carried the headline: “The First Act of Food Sovereignty.”
Apparently, breastfeeding is only considered praiseworthy if it can somehow be turned into another lego-piece in the government’s indoctrination strategy.
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