Bolsonaro’s 1998 outburst openly called for mass political killings

Evidence

But as a media figure, he had developed a reputation as the far-right answer to everything and anything about the political system that developed after the fall of the dictatorship. And his outbursts were certainly attention-grabbing. In a 1998 television interview, he proclaimed that the military regime had not killed enough people. He said: “Voting won’t change anything in this country. Absolutely nothing! Things will only change, unfortunately, after starting a civil war here, and doing the work the dictatorship didn’t do. Killing some 30,000 people, and starting with FHC. If some innocents die, that’s just fine.” When he was referring to “FHC,” he was calling for the execution of then president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. You can’t get any more anti-political than that. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 600

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• XREF: connects to: Bolsonaro campaigned by threatening physical elimination of political opponents and book burning — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1337