Calling a university professor and a mayor a fascist is not only deeply inappropriate, but also dangerously hypocritical and goes beyond the bounds of common sense. Such rhetoric, fueled by hatred and political intolerance, undermines the foundations of any healthy society – dialogue, tolerance and human dignity.
This was stated by the Minister of Sports and Youth, Dragoslav Šćekić, in response to the fact that a group of citizens today prevented Podgorica Mayor Saša Mujović from giving a speech at the Statehood Day celebration in Gorica, by booing him and calling him a fascist.
Šćekić assessed that labeling dissenters with the most derogatory historical terms says nothing about the target, but clearly speaks about the morality and motives of those who utter them.
"It is time to put an end to this kind of public lynching. It is obvious that one, fortunately a smaller part of society, still wants to keep Montenegro divided and hated - because it does not know any other way, because it does not know how to love, reconcile, or respect. For years, the poison towards its own people, towards those closest to it, has not stopped. And we are not saying this because of you - who do not wish well for Montenegro, nor its children and young people - but because of themselves. They are not leaving this country just for work and bread, but because of the unhealthy environment that you have been creating for decades. If you already hate those who advocate for harmony, do not hate your own children. At least give them the opportunity to live without pressure, manipulation, and poisoning with hatred towards their friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens," the minister said in a press release.
How much longer, asks Šćekić.
"We know it's hard for you that you can no longer take from the people's suffering and squeeze this 'martyr' under slogans of alleged concern. I urge you - both one and two, and three, and five - to stop. Montenegro must breathe freely," he concluded.
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