Buenos Aires Herald 
President Javier Milei reaffirmed the statements he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos against feminism and the LGBTQIA+ community. “Do not get in our way,” he wrote in a long X post on Sunday afternoon.
At the event in Switzerland on Thursday, the libertarian economist told his audience of world leaders and top businesspeople: “in its most extreme version, gender ideology simply and plainly constitutes child abuse. They’re pedophiles.”
He also claimed that the crime of femicide meant that the law recognized a woman’s life is worth more than a man’s. Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona announced immediately afterwards that the executive branch would seek to remove the concept of femicide from the Penal Code.
The legal concept of femicide applies only in cases where the woman or girl’s gender was a factor in her murder, and does not assign a greater intrinsic value to women’s or girls’ lives. The Trans Journalists Association describes “gender ideology” as a charged term used by anti-trans commentators to imply that trans people are imposing an agenda by their mere existence.
On Saturday, Argentina’s LGBTQIA+ community turned out across the country to repudiate and condemn the president’s remarks and call an anti-fascist, anti-racist pride march on February 1.
The next day, the president took to X to double down on his words. “We told world elites to their faces that the ideology that they have been seeking to impose on the world for decades is condemning us to failure,” he wrote. “We argue that, under the guise of good intentions and well-crafted rhetoric, they aim to impose an agenda whose only consequence is the infinite expansion of the state, and consequently, the death of freedom.”
He claimed his critics “lack arguments” and had thereby resorted to “stigmatization, categorization, and fallacies” to discredit him.
Milei and the Musk salute
“The response we received from global and local elites was to label Elon Musk a Nazi (an ad hominem fallacy) and accuse us of saying things we never said (a straw man fallacy),” he said.
While addressing supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena in Washington after his inauguration on January 20, Musk jabbed his right arm into the air, palm down, before turning and repeating the gesture. Onlookers around the world blasted the move as a Nazi or fascist salute.
Milei defended the tech billionaire in a separate X post on Tuesday. “NAZI MY ASS,” he wrote. He said the salute was an “innocent gesture” and described Musk as “one of the most important men in history.”
On Sunday, he accused his critics of mounting “a campaign of outrage over supposed things we never said, solely to cause harm and score a political point in Argentina’s petty electoral disputes.”
“With every obstacle you try to create, we will keep accelerating. Because unlike you, we know where we need to go to rescue this country from your clutches. Freedom is advancing, and nothing will stop it,” he concluded.
