Trending #EleNao is a hashtag created by Brazilian women protesting against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, known for misogynistic, LGBTphobic & racist comments & for praising the country's brutal Dictatorship. His rejection among women, 52% of voters, is 49-52%.
Some of his most remarkable comments:
"I won't rape you because you're not worthy of it"
"Women have to earn less than men because they get pregnant. I wouldn't employ them with the same salary as men"
"I had four sons. The fifth time I weakened and got a woman"
#EleNao
"I'm pro torture"
"The Dictatorship's mistake was torturing instead of killing"
"Who seeks bones are dogs" [about people seeking remains of loved ones who disappeared in the Dictatorship"
"If innocents die by police combatting crime, it's collateral damage"
#EleNao
"No one likes homosexuals"
"I'd rather have a dead son than a gay son. I would be incapable of loving him. He'd be dead to me"
"If a child starts behaving gayly, you beat them up & they change their behavior"
"Minorities bow to majorities
#EleNao
"My sons wouldn't date a black woman, we don't have that kind of promiscuity in my family"
"Descendants of escaped slaves aren't good even for procreating. In their land settlements I visited, the lightest one weighed [a measure used for cows & slaves]"
#EleNao
"No land settlements for indigenous peoples and communities of descendants of escaped slaves"
"I praise Coronel Ustra [one of the biggest torturers of our Dictatorship, famed for shoving rats up on women's vaginas], Dilma's [ex-president] terror"
#EleNao
"We'll gonna fusillade leftist militants"
"The Military Police should have killed 1,000 rather than 111 prisoners in the Carandiru massacre"
"Pinochet should have killed more people"
"I never hit my ex-wife. But many times I wanted to shoot her"
#EleNao
"If I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them.
"Has anyone ever seen any Japanese begging? It's a race that has shame in its face"
"I used that housing allowance money [public money] to fuck people. Are you satisfied? Because that's the answer you deserve"
#EleNao
"With us [in office], there will be no such human rights politicking"
"If I'm president, I'll leave the United Nations. It's an organization of communists"
"No father wants to come home and find his son playing with a doll"
"A policeman who doesn’t kill isn’t a policeman"
#EleNao
"The day of losers [about United Nation’s International Human Rights Day]"
"The scum of the world is arriving in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems to resolve [about Senegalese, Haitians, Iranians, Bolivians, & Syrians]"
"No father would be proud of a gay son"
#EleNao
Tired of looking for quotes now but here are some sources:

news.com.au/lifestyle/real…
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jair_Bols…

Go go go, Brazilian women! Oh, and, #EleNao ;)
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