The Return of Respectable Bigotry

This morning’s piece came from a feeling I couldn’t quite shake: a strange, low-grade nostalgia, not for some golden age, but for a time when certain ideas, however persistent, at least had the decency to keep their voices down.

The article looks at how that quiet embarrassment seems to have evaporated, replaced by something far more confident, performative, and—depending on your tolerance—profitable. What was once whispered is now declared, and often rewarded.

I’ve tried to approach it with a mix of irony and restraint rather than outright indignation (there’s already plenty of that around), letting the contradictions speak for themselves, particularly in the current Spanish context.

If you’d like to read it, you can find the English version in SUR in English here:
https://www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy-nahumko-when-did-shame-become-optional-20260220120024-nt.html

And the Spanish version published in HOY here:
https://archive.ph/BFUde