If you are thinking of buying a flat TV for Magi and you go through Carrefour de Gavà, you may find the same thing that I found a few hours ago. It's a video that is broadcasted cyclically on the CCTV of flat TVs, a short documentary full of beautiful images of our land, Catalonia. The mountains of Montserrat, idyllic images of the Catalan coast, the vibrant nerve of the city of Barcelona and the incomparable charm of small inland villages. At one point, the traveling of a drone seems to be recreated on a balcony where a nationalist starred flag is hanging, but given that there are many starred flags in Barcelona I don't give it much importance. Shortly afterwards the helicopter (because it's clear that the documentary has plenty of means) flies over and focuses in detail on the main square of a small village in which apparently all its inhabitants come together to raise a gigantic canvas on which reads “Freedom political prisoners”. It seems a lot of coincidence to me, at this point. However, my doubts dissipate in less than a minute when the camera is fully immersed, back in the city, in an pro-independence demonstration profusely populated with starred flags and is recreated in the presence of protesters full of youth and freshness, cheerful, attractive, exultant, with an eye on a promising future and without apparent malice, without burning containers nor throwing “cheers” on Terra Lliure. And a few seconds later the loop restarts with the word "Catalunya" appearing on a paradisiacal background.
The documentary itself is an impeccable work that puts in value each one of the considerable euros that have surely been allocated to it. A propaganda piece surely financed by the ideologues of the regime to help normalize the association of ideas that links our autonomous community with the secessionist movement, with the excuse of an innocent "demo" of beautiful images of Catalonia.
Obviously, after seeing which documentary the person in charge of the closed circuit of the Carrefour de Gavà center has chosen, it's quite clear to me that for this center not only the Magi campaign has begun, but also the nationalist one.
I weighed the different options that were presented to me. To ignore the fact, to ask for the complaints book or to send an email to the company. After immediately discarding the first, I decided to go to the lady who attended the customer service office, with all kindness (because I doubt that she was behind the maneuver), show her the video and tell her that in a town like Gavà, the majority Constitutionalist and bilingual, nationalist political propaganda (which lately implies monolingualism) might not awaken the Christmas spirit of its clients, besides mentioning that I planned to divulge the fact. I suggested that she discuss the fact with the person in charge and I said goodbye with a smile, desisting from returning later to check if they had done something as a result of my complaint. I guess they wouldn't.
At this point I want to make one thing very clear in case there are doubts about the objective of this article. I don't want and I don't like boycotts. I believe that calling for a boycott on a company always has secondary effects on their workers, who are never guilty of the actions of their management. And although there are those who excuse these possible damages and classify them as "collateral damages", I confess that this expression in particular scares me. What I do find useful is to communicate to the board our discomfort (if it bothers us) at this mix of Christmas spirit and ideological propaganda. And report on it.
Having clarified this, it seems to me perfectly understandable that if this Magi Eve their Eastern Majesties decide to give someone a plasma television and they see that to do so they have to "swallow" in a loop all this separatist propaganda they choose to load their camels in other places in which the happiness of citizens prevails more than any ideology.