A Brazilian Writer Saw a Tweet as Tame Satire. Then Came the Lawsuits.

 

 

  "The acerbic tweet got here naturally to the Brazilian novelist and journalist J.P. Cuenca, who was a number of months right into a quarantine doom-scrolling routine.
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One June afternoon, he read an article concerning the thousands and thousands of {dollars} President Jair Bolsonaro’s authorities had spent promoting on radio and tv stations owned by its evangelical Christian allies, notably the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Protestant denomination that has helped propel Brazil’s political shift rightward.

“Brazilians will solely be free when the final Bolsonaro is strangled with the entrails of the final pastor from the Common Church,” Mr. Cuenca wrote on Twitter, riffing on an oft-cited 18th century quote concerning the fates that ought to befall kings and clergymen.

He put his cellphone down, made espresso and carried on along with his day, oblivious that the missive would quickly price him his job with a German information outlet, immediate dying threats and spark a cascade of litigation. At the least 130 Common Church pastors, claiming “ethical damage,” have sued him in distant courthouses across the huge nation."

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A Brazilian Writer Saw a Tweet as Tame Satire. Then Came the Lawsuits. – Unfold Times