Manu Sánchez confronts hatred in his acclaimed monologue in 'El perro andaluz': "It needs protagonism, like fascism"

El perro andaluz returned this Thursday to La 1 with one of the most commented moments of the night. Manu Sánchez opened the new installment of the RTVE program with an extensive monologue in which he focused on hatred, polarization, and the capacity of certain discourses to generate confrontation. His words ended with a long ovation from the audience.

The presenter began his intervention with one of his usual humorous jabs before getting straight to the point: "Today we must recognize that there is no turning back, everything is different now, Europe has ceased to be Europe as we know it". And, true to his style, he finished the reflection with a football reference: "The fact is historic: Betis has won its first Champions League match".

From there, Manu Sánchez took his discourse towards the European political and social situation. "Europe has shown many times that it knows how to destroy itself from within", he pointed out, before advocating for a society that rebels against "homophobia, racism, xenophobia, machismo" and attacks on individual and collective freedoms.

"I will be a dangerous red for defending my principles, but I don't understand a Europe that doesn't rebel against homophobia, racism, xenophobia, machismo", affirmed the presenter, who then launched one of the questions that structured his intervention: "Who wants us to hate each other?"

Manu Sánchez recovers his previous monologue about Ceuta

The presenter also recalled the monologue he dedicated the previous week to the Ceuta crisis and criticized the way in which, as he explained, some of his words were subsequently used. Sánchez denounced the dissemination of messages constructed from statements "that are true, but also false" with the aim of provoking "division, disinformation, manipulation, confrontation, and a lot of hatred".

Throughout almost twenty minutes, the presenter made hatred the protagonist of a reflection full of metaphors. "Hate hatred. Love is more powerful, but hatred makes more noise", he defended.

"Hatred gives heartburn to those who vomit it. It repeats itself to those who swallow it", affirmed Manu Sánchez, before summarizing his particular definition with one of the most striking phrases of the discourse: "For those who put it on, it's always too big, and for those of us who decide to love, it always feels too small".

The presenter continued describing hate as a phenomenon that needs to feed on fear and constantly seeks new enemies. "Hate erases history, fears the future. It needs enemies and if it doesn't have them, it invents them," he stated.

He also championed the role of culture, science, and knowledge against it: "What is born of hate never stood. However, from love, culture, wisdom, science, and humanity, monuments stand for centuries."

"Hate needs prominence, like fascism"

One of the most forceful moments came when Manu Sánchez established a direct comparison between hate and fascism. "Hate needs prominence, like fascism," he affirmed from the stage of El perro andaluz. The presenter added that this hate "lives between two types: those who are very smart and play dumb so that it's not noticed that they pull the strings, and those who play smart and it's evident that they are the dumb ones."

In his final segment, Sánchez once again defended love as a response to discourses of confrontation. "Hate always arrives late and badly," he pointed out, before closing his intervention with a declaration of principles.

"Love is more powerful, although I think hate makes more noise," he affirmed. And, before an audience that ended up rising from their seats, he concluded: "Long live love, long live life, to live and to love strongly. Death to death, death to hate."

The intervention provoked a several-minute ovation and served as the start for a new installment of El perro andaluz, which returned to La 1 with Manu Sánchez ready to once again turn the opening monologue into one of the great moments of his program.