Pro-life Activist Faced a Hate Campaign on Social Media
Elsa Almeda, an 18-year-old with ties to the VOX political party in Spain, received numerous attacks for expressing her pro-life views on a Spanish television program Tevecat that provides a space for young people with different ideologies to debate current topics. The discussion was around abortion which she likened to murder, an opinion that is based on her Christian values. For this, she received several threats and parts of her speech where quoted completely out of context with the intent of misrepresenting her views and to paint her in a bad light.
The 18-year-old Elsa Almeda made an intense pro-life defence in the TV-show “Opina Jove” (Youth Says) at the beginning of October. The responses to her comments immediately reached a level were hate and harassment were constant. Some well-known “youtubers” denigrated Elisa with out of context words that made it seem she was justifying sexual assault.
The Spanish youtuber known as “Wildhater” with more than 951,000 followers posted a video on his channel that he had to later take down because its hateful comments lead to so much outrage. Another youtuber, Roma Gallardo wrote to Elsa on Twitter: "I can prove to you that my cat is worth more to me than you and 50,000 like you", to which the young woman replied: "If you really believe that your cat's life is worth more than any human life, I can only pray for you".
"They have decontextualized and manipulated what I said and now I am receiving threats. My 16-year-old sister has also received threats at school", she explained.
"I have been to that programme more times and it has no repercussions. But now everything has been manipulated and has had a lot of repercussions. We live in a small town near Barcelona. They know us. Among other things, they tell me that they are going to rape me," she says. "My family is having a hard time, my mother has cried and I have had to go to university with her. I pray for these people who have so much hatred inside them that they wish something bad on me and my sister. They are victims of media manipulation and journalists who are not faithful to the truth," she says.
Góngora, a priest with a large following on Twitter said regarding the case: "to receive the insults and threats coming from these whited sepulchres should lead us to the joy of beatitude in the face of persecution for the name of Christ".
Source: Vozpopuli.es aciprensa
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