The anti-Spanish black legend basically comes to say that Spain was and is an ignorant, fanatical, inquisitorial, murderous nation, enemy of progress and modernity… almost nothing. That is the ability of those who create the black legend: to introduce true elements to give an idea of seriousness and correctness but then exaggerate the negative aspects to their own taste and how not? also plays an important role hiding merits and positive facts carried out by the Spanish, because there is not only an active black legend that shows only the negative but also the opposite, the one that hides merits and positive aspects. Absolutely delirious.īut we should not be mistaken, many of the accusations against Spain’s work are pure legend, pure lies, but there are also truths and half-truths. For more inri in these last years the legendary arguments have also been appropriated by the national and international political left justifying in this way riots, violent acts and insults of the most varied kind for something that happened several centuries ago. But not only among those considered historical enemies of Spain, who seek to discredit and tarnish the image of Spain, but also within its own borders since the Spanish War of Independence in the early nineteenth century with the confrontation of the liberals with the supporters of the Old Regime and, at present, with the secessionists who justify their intention to separate and distinguish themselves from the rest of the Spanish people by inventing and exaggerating alleged Hispanic evils. The anti-Spanish black legend has been purring in the ears of the Spanish people themselves and spreading internationally in a constant and stubborn way. More so when even many countries, supposedly allies, continue to feed and spread it. This may be all very well in times of war when, as we say, the first victim is information and, with the distortion of it, the truth, but when these legends and inventions are left out of the unhappy times of war and continue to be hammered out, or even bring out new lies in times of peace or normality, then we are faced with a far more worrying case. This is a way of convincing people that truth and justice are on their side against the evil and barbaric enemy, who must be defeated and eliminated. Texts, ideas, news, any kind of information are taken and negative aspects of the enemy are exaggerated or directly invented with the aim of underestimating and disqualifying him among his own people in order to justify the actions against him or to insufflate more value. In all wars or struggles between peoples, countries, empires, etc., it is inevitable that the battle of information or disinformation between the contenders explodes. In the case we are dealing with that “something” is Spain, or rather the history of Spain and its performance along it both in its own peninsular territory and in Europe as well as in Spanish America. According to the Real Academia de la Lengua Española a legend is a “Narration of fantastic events that is transmitted by tradition” and going a little further a black legend is an “Unfavorable and generally unfounded story about someone or something”.
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