Neither refugees arriving by boat or tourists who look at them from the towel should be blamed for what is happening.
Blaming the victims is something very common in our current society. Often we hear merciless accusations against desperate people who reach Europe to claim their right for a better future. And now we have recently heard some critics against tourists who are sometimes pictured just at the moment when desperate Africans arrive to the coast. And with that comes to my mind the picture by Javier Bauluz, like so many others that have been published.
You can say many things against migrants or against “insensitive” tourists, but I am convinced that the real direction of our critics for this convulsed reality is not this one. We should point the European governments for their inability to manage this situation, the obsession of some states to raise walls and fences at the borders, the police brutality against the universal right to migrate, the catastrophic situation people are living in their countries of origin and, yes, also the historical responsibility that western countries have.