Marcello sent us this really fascinating example of political propaganda from an anti-immigrant party in Italy. He translated the text as:
They suffered immigrationThe implication is, if they let immigrants into Italy, the current residents will suffer the same fate as American Indians.
Now they live in reserves
Think about it
Marcello writes:
Original post, by Marcello, here. Thanks!Beside the obvious racist concept i think it's quite ironic that they identify
themselves with people they would probably discriminate [against] if they ever
met any american-native people here in italy and the fact that they criminalize
the role that the very same "western civilization" they stand for (against the
"bastardization of culture from muslim heretics", their words, not mine) played
in the american-native genocide.
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1 comments:
April 19, 2008 at 11:34 AM
The gall. The unmitigated GALL. I don't have words strong enough to express myself.
If this isn't one of the finest (read, slimiest) examples of appropriation that I've seen in a long time, I don't know what is. After you've finished kicking someone in the teeth, you don't get to identify with their oppression, nor claim it for your own. You don't. You really, really don't.
And you certainly don't get to do it in the process of justifying further acts of oppressive evil.
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