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He has hardly got off the airplane before the stream of invective begins. Refugees, says Matteo Salvini at the end of a trip to Africa, "who rape, steal and deal" will be stopped by the new security decree. Italy, he fumes, has had enough of migrants "who aren't fleeing from war but who are bringing war to our country."

Not a day goes by without an incitement from Salvini. In office as interior minister since June 1, the head of the right-wing party Lega has become the voice of the government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Salvini's motto is simple: "Italians first." His tone is combative. And the consequences can be seen everywhere.

In Macareta, black pedestrians were shot at in broad daylight. In Aprilia, a Moroccan man was beaten to death. In Caserta, youth opened fire on men from Mali. The steady stream of incidents in the summer and fall of 2018 has triggered disgust in Italy and beyond. At least 70 racist occurrences were registered in the country between June and October.

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IF YOU´RE INTERESTED IN MEETING neo-fascists, you could do worse than jumping onto the subway at San Giovanni, just next to the cathedral that is the pope's official seat, and heading east. Marco Continisio is waiting at the Santa Maria del Soccorso station, a 28-year-old bearded man who is the local representative of CasaPound, the party of self-proclaimed "fascists of the third millennium."

The movement, named for the American poet and Mussolini admirer Ezra Pound, was founded in 2003 and now has more than 100 offices around the country with more than 20,000 members. In Rome, particularly in the city's east, the neo-fascists have become a significant power -- in part because they offer daily assistance to those in need in addition to getting involved and showing a presence in places where the state has long since given up.

TGLS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:33 pm It's all the legacy of the years of lead I guess...

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:24 pm

TGLS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:33 pm It's all the legacy of the years of lead I guess...

Nope, it's the legacy of the country switching sides mid-war and getting off scot-free, despite being the literal home of fascism, plenty of genocidal behaviour and attacking neighbours by force of arms.

Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:33 pm

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:24 pm

TGLS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:33 pm It's all the legacy of the years of lead I guess...

Nope, it's the legacy of the country switching sides mid-war and getting off scot-free, despite being the literal home of fascism, plenty of genocidal behaviour and attacking neighbours by force of arms.

Italian fascism does not involve genocide (who did they genocide? the Greeks? the Ethiopians?).
The antisemitism was a sign of Germany's/Hitler's domination over the partnership.

Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy, recently told an Italian newspaper that the fascist government of Benito Mussolini "never killed anyone."

"Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile," Berlusconi was quoted as saying in La Voce di Rimini, an Italian newspaper.

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:47 pm Genocide and racial purity are very much integral parts of Italian fascism. And so is pretending that it never happened.

Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:37 am

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:47 pm Genocide and racial purity are very much integral parts of Italian fascism. And so is pretending that it never happened.

If denial is the last stage of a genocide does that mean if it isn't denied then it isn't a genocide?