If you really love each other, then you can also insult each other. That would be one of the translations of the quote attributed to the famous Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and for this purpose it is not necessary to go into the process of "fact-checking" and determine whether he really said it. Context is important to us, actually much more important than literal citation.
Marija Vuković called the eagle from the national flag a chicken. If we stop there, without context, it seems that it is an explicit expression of disrespect towards the state symbol, and then consequently towards the state, citizens, society as a whole...
When Maria's comment is put into context, it can be seen that she did not feel the need to prove her views and positions, on the contrary, she felt free to express herself. That freedom is being tried to be stifled right now, by entering into a polemic about what is the measure of attachment to symbols and will certainly end up in some form of state fetishism, and then unmistakably in fascism.
Through her carelessness, Marija became the victim of two groups, very similar in principles, different in characteristics, and which have already found themselves in these roles once when the athlete announced her support for the Democratic Party of Socialists. This also shows what athletes can and should expect when they enter party waters. And then two lines of thought were highlighted, two sides of the coin, neither of which suffers differently - one celebrated, the other persecuted, and now it's the other way around, and they still don't realize how similar they are to each other.
The key question is how long the more patriotic police will be able to carry out an inquisition on people who work honestly, and in this case represent the state at the highest level, whose achievements society is proud of, while behind state symbols, both official and historical ones, are being withdrawn. from undefined laws, they hide all kinds of rascals, bums, criminals, thieves, usurers, thugs, blackmailers...
It is again a question of context - it is not a question of whether the song "Od Glava Zeta do grada Spuž" is an old epic or a newly composed one, but the question is what is the thought process that leads someone to not know how to rejoice without the whining of the Turks and the whining of the bulls, and they want us to spoof the story of some glorious memory of the fight against the Ottomans. Whether he sings the same song at the celebration of Kavčan or at the Svetosava Ball in Nikšić.
It is a matter of context when Andrija Mandić raises the flag and leaves useful ambiguities by choosing the type of tricolor - he thereby sends a political message, hiding behind legal snags.
Both sides are trying to strengthen Manichaeism, the division into "us" and "them" who are waging an epic conflict for the nation, that is, the vision of the nation. Some are patriots, others are traitors, and since that is not enough, then you introduce ethno-nationalism and nativism, where Marija Vuković, as someone who came from Knin, is the perfect target because with a few steps, as easy as her flight, you can go from worship to hatred.
Sociologist Bojan Baća rightly observed: Marija Vuković, from yesterday's symbol of Montenegro, has become a symptom of Montenegro, that of "civic Montenegro" which is supposedly different from "nationalist Montenegro", and is just waiting for an occasion to shake off nationalism and misogyny, and to finally reveal to us that it is the same as Montenegro, which it is supposedly fighting against."
Civic Montenegro exists, but in other positions.
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