ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Teruel, a town in eastern Spain, is on the front line of a culture war with political overlays between conservative defenders of bullfighting traditions and liberals who find them brutal, retrograde and, in the case of comic bullfighting shows in which some of the performers with achondroplasia take on smaller 1-year-old bulls, illegal. For its annual fiesta this July, Teruel has rejected a law passed in May by Parliament that seemed to prohibit comic bullfights. The law banned “shows or leisure activities” that use a disability “to provoke public mockery, ridicule or derision.” Felipe Orviz Orviz, a lawyer and activist who also has achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder that causes the more common type of dwarfism, threatened legal action if the show were to proceed. He recounted how people have mistaken him for a performer and shouted, “Look at the dwarf bullfighter,” at him during fiestas. The shows “are illegal,” he said. But defenders of the show cited another clause of the law, which states that “people with disabilities will participate in public shows and recreational activities, including bullfighting, without discrimination.” Benito Ros, an official of the Aragon region who is based in Teruel, argued that the comic bullfighters were getting laughs for their antics, not their stature, and that to ban them was to discriminate against their right to work. Read more about the divide over bullfighting traditions at the link in our bio. Photos by @samuel_aranda_studio」7月24日 1時27分