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 (1977–) is the prime minister of Italy, having been elected since 2022. 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. Meloni has also compared herself with the American Republican Party as being equally "moderate" as herself.[5]
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).[6] 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.[7]
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.[8] Some of the targeted groups were Jews, Muslims, Romani, and African and Asian migrants.[9] Meloni has also called for a crack down on Italy's African community, beginning with anti-immigration laws and fearmongering about "African infiltrators".[10]
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".[11]
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.[12]
Meloni has disavowed Putin and condemned the war in Ukraine, even going as far as to send aid into Ukraine.[13] She also called out Berlusconi when he blamed Zelenskyy for the war in Ukraine.[14]
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.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/why-us-republicans-are-elated-by-triumph-of-italys-giorgia-meloni
- ↑ 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.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/