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Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes

The Dig

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Making It in the World Is Getting to the Point Where Your Rights Are Always Valid, but the Laws Don't Necessarily Apply to You

The idea that making it in the world is getting to the point where your rights are always valid, but the laws don't necessarily apply to you if you step outside of them. The figure of the mamata can describe everyone from like a welfare recipient and the racialized beneficiary of affirmative action to a corrupt elite business man and politicians. "This is how people imagine our society, or envisioned society, is working," she says.

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