FLASH
Shkruar nga Arben Llangozi
Robert Gajda does not see the economic discrimination that condemns the poor to live without dignity. He does not see the institutional discrimination that comes from the state itself. He does not see the police who drag the citizen. He does not see the pensioner who is humiliated. He does not see the sick person who cannot afford medicine. But Robert Gajda sees Big Brother.
In Albania, discrimination is no longer a social problem. It is a silent state policy. And when a state has institutions that choose not to see, then the problem is no longer just injustice, it is cooperation with it.
At the center of this failure stands the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, Robert Gajda. A figure who holds a great title, but who represents an even greater silence.
Robert Gajda is a Commissioner in name only. Because in reality, the economic discrimination that destroys pensioners does not exist for him. The political discrimination that dismisses people from work for party beliefs does not exist for him. The institutional discrimination that humiliates citizens at the counters, the police, the prosecutor and the court does not exist for him. The citizen who is dragged away by the police does not exist for him. The sick person who cannot buy medicine does not exist for him.
Yesterday I read that this commissioner reacted to the violence and hate speech that exists on Big Brother. And according to the reaction, Robert is very indignant.
Robert Gajda finds time, sensitivity and a public voice for a television spectacle, but not for a society that is being suffocated by inequality and state violence. He finds the courage to comment on violence when it is safe, packaged for an audience and without political cost. But he loses his voice when the violence comes from the state itself, from the very power that is supposed to control.
Robert Gajda is not uninformed. He is selective. He is not helpless. He is comfortable. He is not blind. He simply chooses not to see where seeing would require confrontation.
A Commissioner who reacts to television, but remains silent about the humiliated pensioner, is not a defender of equality. It is institutional decorum. A Commissioner who speaks about violence on screen, but not about real police violence against citizens, is not a voice of justice, it is a voice of hypocrisy.
In Albania we don't just have social problems. We have a system built on discrimination, humiliation and exclusion. We have a state that talks about equality, but feeds on inequality. That talks about dignity, but lives off the inhumanity of its citizens.
On one side is the daily reality of people. Pensions that are not even enough for a day's worth of medicine. Elderly people who choose between bread and medical treatment. Sick people who die in silence because medicine is expensive and the state is free from responsibility. Pensioners who stand in line for a subscription, not because they like it, but because they have been forced to accept humiliation as normality.
On the other side is institutional luxury. Warm offices. Curated statements. Long silences and selective reactions.
In the reality of the citizen, economic aid is a mockery. In the reality of the institutions, it is called “social policy”. In the reality of the citizen, education is a luxury. In the reality of the institutions, it is “reform”. In the reality of the citizen, the police drag people into the streets. In the reality of the institutions, this is an “isolated case”.
Discrimination is not random. It is systematic. Economic discrimination, where poverty is punished. Political discrimination, where obedience is rewarded or punished. Institutional discrimination, where the ordinary citizen has no voice, while the powerful have immunity.
Bullying begins in schools and never ends. It continues in the workplace, in the police, in the prosecutor's office, in the courts. It continues in state offices, where the citizen is treated as a burden, not as a subject of law. Persons under investigation are kept in the dark, without acts and evidence, because transparency is a danger to power.
Employees are fired for political beliefs and it's called "restructuring." People are fired and it's called "procedure." Dignity is violated and it's called "law."
And in the midst of all this burning reality, there is an institution that has a legal duty to react, which is the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination and Chief Inspector Robert Gajda.
Robert Gajda does not see the economic discrimination that condemns the poor to live without dignity. He does not see the political discrimination that divides citizens into the obedient and the excluded. He does not see the institutional discrimination that comes from the state itself. He does not see the police who drag the citizen. He does not see the pensioner who is humiliated. He does not see the sick person who cannot afford medicine.
But Robert Gajda sees Big Brother.
It sees violence broadcast for an audience. It sees spectacle. It sees what is safe to comment on, because it does not endanger power. Because it does not demand accountability. Because it does not disrupt comfort.
This is not just failure. It is moral complicity. Because silence in the face of real discrimination is part of discrimination. When an institution chooses what to see and what to ignore, that institution has taken sides.
ANALIZE BRILANTE, E QARTE DHE E SHKRUAR ME NJE KULTURE GJUHESORE TE ADMIRUESHME. UNE JAM I FIKSUAR PAS GJUHES KU SPIKAT ANALFABETIZMI FINKSIONAL EDHE TEK MENDER ANALISTE-SHKRUESIT, GJITHOLOGET PATRONAZHISTE, QE SHETISIN SA NGA NJERA MEDIA TEK TJETRI. BRAVO AV. ARBEN lLANGOZI