Kim Kataguiri
{{short description|Brazilian politician (born 1996)}}
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{{Portuguese name|Patroca|Kataguiri}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kim Kataguiri
| image = KIM KATAGUIRI 2022-08-02.jpg
| office = Member of the Chamber of Deputies
| term_start = 1 February 2019
| constituency = São Paulo
| birth_name = Kim Patroca Kataguiri
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|01|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Salto, São Paulo, Brazil
| party = UNIÃO (since 2022)
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| alma_mater = Federal University of ABC (dropped out)
| occupation = Activist, politician
| module = {{Infobox YouTube personality
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| channel_handle = @kimkataguiri
| years_active = 2009–present
| subscribers = 1.54 million
| views = 487.6 million
| language = Brazilian Portuguese
| stats_update = 10 December 2023
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Kim Patroca Kataguiri (born 28 January 1996) is a Brazilian politician, activist, lecturer, and one of the founders and leaders of the Free Brazil Movement, a centre-right group.{{cite web|title = Propostas MLB |url=https://mbl.org.br/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/propostas-mbl.pdf |accessdate= 3 July 2020 |agency=MBL}} In October 2018, he was elected a congressman for the 2019{{ndash}}2022 term, being the fourth most voted.{{cite news|title=Veja os candidatos a deputado federal eleitos em SP |url=https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/10/08/veja-os-candidatos-a-deputado-federal-eleitos-em-sp.ghtml |accessdate=15 October 2018 |agency=G1}}
Political career
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According to Kataguiri, his involvement in politics began in August 2013 when he was 17-years-old. In a history class at his college in São Paulo state, his teacher asserted that Brazil's "popular cash transfer program applauded by many experts around the globe was responsible for the expansion of Brazil's middle class and for lifting millions of citizens from poverty during the last decade."{{cite news |date=30 March 2015 |title=Teen libertarian is face of Brazil's young free-market right |url=https://news.yahoo.com/teen-libertarian-face-brazils-young-free-market-043212589.html |agency=Associated Press }} Kataguiri was not convinced: "That just seemed wrong. The family allowance might be necessary, but it has flaws and the main reasons for our high economic growth was the commodities boom and our relationship with China." He was also struck by how his peers readily accepted Brazil's model of state capitalism as practiced by the ruling Workers' Party. Rather than respond to his teacher in class, Kataguiri posted a video to YouTube, which quickly went viral. Kataguiri said: "This was when I realized I could use the internet to defend free market values." He posted to YouTube more satirical videos, which gained millions of views as Brazil fell into recession and political crisis.
Kataguiri then founded the Free Brazil Movement, "a libertarian group that espouses free-market values". The first goal of the movement was to impeach Dilma Rousseff, the then-president of Brazil who belongs to the left-wing Workers' Party, for her failure to stop corruption in the state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras.{{cite news |date=24 April 2015 |title=Brazil activists to walk 600 miles for 'free markets, lower taxes and privatisation' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/brazil-activists-march-free-markets-margaret-thatcher-rand-paul |newspaper=The Guardian }} Kataguiri characterizes the Workers' Party as "the nemesis of freedom and democracy." Kataguiri says the broader goals of the movement are "to liberalize the state. We want less tax, less bureaucracy and the privatization of all public companies." On 15 March 2015, more than a million Brazilians attended anti-Rousseff protests around the country. In São Paulo, Kataguiri addressed 200,000 protesters in the largest demonstration in the city in a generation.
In October 2015, Time magazine named Kataguiri as one of the most influential teens of 2015.{{cite news |date=27 October 2015 |title=The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015: Kim Kataguiri, 19 |url=https://time.com/4081618/most-influential-teens-2015/ |newspaper=Time }}
In the 2018 general election, Kataguiri was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies for the state of São Paulo. Receiving 465,310 votes, he came fourth in his state, being the fourth most voted amongst all candidates.{{Cite web |url=https://noticias.r7.com/eleicoes-2018/conheca-os-70-deputados-federais-eleitos-por-sao-paulo-08102018 |title=Conheça os 70 deputados federais eleitos por São Paulo |website=R7 |language=Portuguese |date=7 October 2018 |accessdate=23 October 2018}}{{Cite web |url=https://noticias.r7.com/eleicoes-2018/filho-de-bolsonaro-tem-recorde-de-votos-para-deputado-federal-07102018 |title=Filho de Bolsonaro tem recorde de votos para deputado federal |website=R7 |language=Portuguese |date=7 October 2018 |accessdate=23 October 2018}}
In January 2022, Kataguiri changed his political affiliation to Podemos, in order to support Sergio Moro's run for the presidency in the 2022 Brazilian general election.{{cite web |url=https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/area/pais/cupula-do-mbl-se-filia-ao-podemos-oficializando-apoio-a-moro/ |website=Congresso em Foco |title=Cúpula do MBL se filia ao Podemos, oficializando apoio a Moro|author=Lucas Neiva |language=Portuguese |date=26 January 2022 |accessdate=26 January 2022}} Following the controversy of fellow Free Brazil Movement politician Arthur do Val's sexist remarks while on a trip to Ukraine in early-March 2022,{{cite news |vauthors=Phillips T |title=Brazilian politician's sexist remarks about Ukraine refugees spark outrage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/brazilian-politician-arthur-do-val-sexist-remarks-ukraine-refugees-outrage |work=The Guardian |date=6 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306150718/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/brazilian-politician-arthur-do-val-sexist-remarks-ukraine-refugees-outrageefugees-outrage |archive-date=6 March 2022 |url-status=live |language=en}} Kataguiri changed his political affiliation to União Brasil.{{cite web |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/apos-crise-integrantes-do-mbl-deixam-podemos-pelo-uniao-brasil/ |title=Após crise, integrantes do MBL deixam Podemos pelo União Brasil | website=CNN Brasil |author=Tainá Falcão |language=Portuguese |date=28 March 2022 |access-date=6 May 2022}}
Personal life
Kataguiri is the grandson of Japanese immigrants. He spent his early years in the city of Indaiatuba. His father, Paulo Atuhiro Kataguiri is a retired metal worker.{{cite news |date=27 October 2015 |title=Meet the Teen Spearheading Brazil's Protests Against its President |url=https://time.com/4088721/kim-kataguiri-brazil-protests/ |newspaper=Time }} Kataguiri claimed in an interview to be an Anglican Christian. He supports legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, but opposes abortion because in his view, it goes against the biblical commandment thou shall not kill.{{cite web|title=Celebridades evangélicas: Kim Kataguiri, do MBL|url=https://sadoutrinachannel.blogspot.com/2018/04/celebridades-evangelicas-kim-kataguiri.html|publisher=Sã Doutrina Channel|language=Portuguese|date=2 April 2018|accessdate=14 March 2019}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In his spare time, Kataguiri plays Dota 2, a game in which he admits to be a newbie but believes he is improving. He occasionally streams his Dota matches live on Twitch.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-24 |title=FalleN doa R$ 1 mil para campanha de Kim Kataguiri |url=https://www.dust2.com.br/noticias/30525/fallen-doa-r-1-mil-para-campanha-de-kim-kataguiri |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=Dust2.com.br |language=pt-BR}}
Controversies
In February 2022, during his participation in the Flow Podcast, Kim Kataguiri stated that Germany was wrong to criminalize Nazism. “What's the best way to stop a speech from killing people and a racial ethnic group from dying? Is it criminalizing it? Or is it letting society socially reject it?”,{{Cite web |last=Poder360 |date=2022-02-08 |title=Kim Kataguiri diz que Alemanha errou ao criminalizar nazismo |url=https://www.poder360.com.br/midia/kim-kataguiri-diz-que-alemanha-errou-ao-criminalizar-nazismo/ |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Poder360 |language=pt-br}} declared the deputy.
After the backlash, Kataguiri did a livestream with professor Heni Ozi Cukier explaining his previous position, saying that during the program he was referring to the criminalization of written works such as Mein Kampf, written by Adolf Hitler, not about Nazism.{{Cite web |title=O pedido de desculpas de Kim Kataguiri aos judeus {{!}} VEJA Gente |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/o-pedido-de-desculpas-de-kim-kataguiri-aos-judeus/ |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=VEJA |language=pt-BR}}
The controversy was discussed in the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience (episode 1781 with the participation of Coleman Hughes){{Citation |title=#1781 - Coleman Hughes |date=2022-02-21 |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/34gutw3EZaaHAZWBiX6cno |language=en |access-date=2023-01-11}} where the presenter (Joe Rogan) recalled about a case that the American Civil Liberties Union preferred not to silence the Nazis “just 30 years after the holocaust.” According to him, the union “had many Jewish lawyers.”[https://open.spotify.com/episode/34gutw3EZaaHAZWBiX6cno?si=0c8a3ccdbecb45f9 #1781 - Coleman Hughes] (57:45) This case is known as the Skokie case.{{Cite web |title=The Skokie Case: How I Came to Represent the Free Speech Rights of Nazis |url=https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters/skokie-case-how-i-came-represent-free-speech-rights-nazis |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=American Civil Liberties Union |language=en}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.camara.leg.br/deputados/204536 Congressman Kim Kataguiri] official Chamber of Deputies website {{in lang|pt}}
- {{Facebook|kimkataguiri}}
- {{Instagram|kimkataguiri}}
- {{Twitter|kimkataguiri}}
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Category:Brazilian politicians of Japanese descent
Category:Brazilian libertarians
Category:Brazilian anti-communists
Category:Federal University of ABC alumni
Category:People from Salto, São Paulo
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo
Category:Democrats (Brazil) politicians
Category:Podemos (Brazil) politicians