Giorgia Meloni
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“” I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me!
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—Meloni giving her fascist inauguration speech.[1] |
Giorgia Meloni (15 January 1977–) is the prime minister of Italy, having been elected since October 2022 and becoming the first woman to hold such a position in Italy. Despite presenting herself as a moderate, she has a background as a fascist political activist. She is the first far-right Italian prime minister since Mussolini was elected (and it just gets worse from here).[2]
Early fascist career[edit]
Meloni hails from Rome, and spent most of her life as an activist in the Youth Front, a neo-fascist political party of Mussolini youth.[3] In 1992 (when she was just 15), she joined the Youth Front and later became the leader of the Student Action, another neo-fascist group.
In her young adult years when she was an activist in the Youth Front, Meloni praised Mussolini as a great leader and an example of Italian pride and strength.[4]
Apologia from American conservatives[edit]
Unsurprisingly, American rightists have praised and defended Meloni as a moderate right-wing leader, and claiming that she is not a fascist.[5] Meloni has also compared herself with the American Republican Party as being equally "moderate" as herself.[6] This is despite that there is footage of her praising Mussolini and refusing to distance herself from fascism.[7][8]
Anti-LGBT fearmongering[edit]
Meloni is very homophobic and transphobic. She claims that gay marriage is antithetical to "traditional values", and has also accused Disney of spreading LGBT propaganda (much like Ron DeSantis).[9] She has enacted laws limiting same-sex couples from marrying and adopting children, which limits their parental rights and prevents them from living in society.[10]
Xenophobia and nationalism[edit]
Meloni has allowed anti-immigrant rhetoric to spread in the Italian public sphere, and has given validity to racist far-right groups.[11] Some of the targeted groups were Jews, Muslims, Romani, and African and Asian migrants.[12] Meloni has also called for a crack down on Italy's African community, beginning with anti-immigration laws and fearmongering about "African infiltrators".[13]
Meloni signed laws preventing immigration and creating detention centers to send immigrants and refugees to in order to prevent what they perceive as "an invasion".[14]
Fascist relations[edit]
In 2024, Meloni refused to call out fascist protestors who were marching on Rome commemorating the 46th anniversary of the Acca Larentia massacre in which three teenage neo-fascist activists were killed by suspected communist activists.[15]
Stopped clock[edit]
Despite being a fascist, Meloni is defensive of women's rights and, unlike her fans, considers herself a feminist. However, her "feminist" politics have been questioned after she banned abortion in Italy, though she denies that she's an antifeminist.[16]
Meloni has disavowed Putin and condemned the war in Ukraine, even going as far as to send aid into Ukraine.[17] She also called out Berlusconi when he blamed Zelenskyy for the war in Ukraine.[18]
She also called out the Iranian regime’s brutality from cracking down on protestors[19][20] (ironically despite her formerly supporting the Islamic regime in Iran during her days as a fascist activist).[21]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEovvFeyWis
- ↑ https://www.theglobalist.com/italy-why-meloni-keeps-her-mussolini-heritage-locked-up/
- ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/06/why-giorgia-meloni-wont-distance-herself-from-italys-fascist-past/
- ↑ https://www.timesofisrael.com/italys-giorgia-meloni-from-teen-activist-who-praised-mussolini-to-brink-of-power/
- ↑ https://www.newsweek.com/sam-sorbo-italy-adolf-hitler-fascist-fascism-socialism-newsmax-tv-giorgia-meloni-1746566
- ↑ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/why-us-republicans-are-elated-by-triumph-of-italys-giorgia-meloni
- ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/06/why-giorgia-meloni-wont-distance-herself-from-italys-fascist-past/
- ↑ https://socialistworker.co.uk/comment/call-giorgia-meloni-what-she-really-is-a-fascist/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/24/fears-lgbtq-rights-italy-giorgia-meloni
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/italian-far-right-government-limits-parental-rights-of-same-sex-couples
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/24/giorgia-meloni-is-a-danger-to-italy-and-the-rest-of-europe-far-right
- ↑ https://newrepublic.com/article/168382/italy-giorgia-meloni-roma-racism
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63330850
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/world/europe/italy-immigration-crackdown.html
- ↑ https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/13/world/meloni-italy-rome-salute-intl/index.html
- ↑ https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/29/giorgia-meloni-italian-women-abortion-pink-quotas
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-ready-risk-unpopularity-over-support-ukraine-2023-03-21/
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-giorgia-meloni-slams-silvio-berlusconi-over-vladimir-putin-remarks-war-ukraine/
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/irans-crackdown-protesters-unacceptable-intolerable-italy-pm-says-2022-12-29/
- ↑ https://www.iranintl.com/en/202212296620
- ↑ https://www.timesofisrael.com/italy-far-right-leader-once-hailed-hezbollah-iran-as-defenders-of-syrian-christians/amp/