“If one thing is important to me, it’s fatherhood”
Jandino Asporaat is flooded with hate messages after presenter Rutger Catricum is in talk show HLF8 had commented on the comedian. He said he was concerned about Jandino’s children after their father questioned the moon landing and 9/11 earlier this week. ‘It’s okay to have your own opinion, but don’t touch children…’
Jandino writes on Instagram: ‘Discussing my children’s upbringing in talk shows or by means of a poll (a matching poll was posted on the Mediacourant website, ed.) Is unacceptable and extremely dangerous. It goes beyond all limits if, first of all, in a one-sided discussion you can only shout ‘he is crazy’ and if that doesn’t really work, then consider: throw his children into the discussion and everyone at the table will laugh? With the aim of convincing people that someone is not acting according to the standard that determines who?’
license
According to the comedian, it is a “free pass for someone else to send me personal messages with: ‘are you suitable as a father’, ‘your children have to leave you’, and ‘hope you lose your children’.” These are the most nuanced, if I can even call it that, messages.’
‘If we can go too far after someone else’s opinion and lower ourselves to such dirty tricks, then we miss the essence of free speech,’ writes Jandino. “If there’s one thing that matters to me, it’s fatherhood.”
Paternity
The messages come in hard, because Jandino himself grew up without a father. ‘At the age of 11 I ended up in a boarding school with my brother and sister, because my mother was ill and we had no one to take care of us.’…”… ‘What I had sworn to myself at the time was that if I ever became a father, I would always be there for my children.’
He continues: “I can’t describe a greater feeling of gratitude than the sound of my children laughing, jumping around my neck when I come home from work or even when they are sick and want to snuggle all day.”
Jandino can count on a lot of support under his post.
Update
The poll on Mediacourant has now been taken offline and Rutger Castricum leaves in VI section In The Hallways regret the comment. “When I drove back I already thought: yes, I don’t think you should bring children in like that.”
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