Italy begins ethnic cleansing plan

[Sestak]

https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1008726533832429568?s=21

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

You could say Italy has returned the 1930s without an ounce of hyperbole.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You could say Italy has returned the 1930s without an ounce of hyperbole.

Not quite true yet, but we're definitely heading down the Hungarian path pretty fast.

[America Needs R'hllor]

But they're obviously better than Renzi because they're populist pro-working class FFs

[TDAS04]

Disgusting. 

[Blue3]

The OP is blank...

[BlueDogDemocrat]

This is sickening

[Santander]

But they're obviously better than Renzi because they're populist pro-working class FFs

They are.

[DavidB.]

But they're obviously better than Renzi because they're populist pro-working class FFs

They are.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That's not really the League's voter profile - it's not particularly a class party in any meaningful sense, and to the extent that it is (a very limited extent) the main leaning is towards what's maybe best termed lower middle class. Five Star is a different story o/c.

[ingemann]

https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1008726533832429568?s=21

The whole "unfortunately" is a thing you should think, not say. We would all have gotten it from the context anyway. it's like the League have no clue how dog whistling works.

[DavidB.]

The whole "unfortunately" is a thing you should think, not say. We would all have gotten it from the context anyway. it's like the League have no clue how dog whistling works.

People only dogwhistle if they are not ready to meet the consequences that speaking their minds would bring. I don't think Salvini will suffer much from the consequences of his words here (though it might make the EU even more hostile to his plan).

[ingemann]

The whole "unfortunately" is a thing you should think, not say. We would all have gotten it from the context anyway. it's like the League have no clue how dog whistling works.

People only dogwhistle if they are not ready to meet the consequences that speaking their minds would bring. I don't think Salvini will suffer much from the consequences of his words here (though it might make the EU even more hostile to his plan).

I don't think we will see any great reaction, while it's unpleasant way to say it, it fully fall inside the EU treaties. No other Western EU country want to set up the precedence that you can't throw citizens from other EU countries out, if they are in the country "irregularly".

[EPG]

It's interesting that the quality of ethnic data in censuses was a good predictor of genocide efficiency among Nazi-occupied European countries.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's interesting that the quality of ethnic data in censuses was a good predictor of genocide efficiency among Nazi-occupied European countries.

James Scott discussed that issue a bit (and reproduced a census map of the Jewish population of Amsterdam) in Seeing Like A State o/c.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It's interesting that the quality of ethnic data in censuses was a good predictor of genocide efficiency among Nazi-occupied European countries.

Isn't that one of the reasons France bans asking questions about race entirely?

[parochial boy]

It's interesting that the quality of ethnic data in censuses was a good predictor of genocide efficiency among Nazi-occupied European countries.

Isn't that one of the reasons France bans asking questions about race entirely?

Isn't the UK kind of unique (in the European context) in that it actually collects racial/ethnic data? (not religious though)

[DavidB.]

It's interesting that the quality of ethnic data in censuses was a good predictor of genocide efficiency among Nazi-occupied European countries.

This is why we don't have a census anymore in the Netherlands.

[Antonio the Sixth]

But they're obviously better than Renzi because they're populist pro-working class FFs

They are.

[ConservativeCommunist]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  it's like the world is reverting to where it was in the 1930s. let's hope this doesn't continue though, because the eventual outcome is going to be worse than anyone would ever imagine, if fascists keep getting into power.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Wow, Italy is really going to give fascism another try?

Anyways, has Conte or Di Maio condemned the comments?

EDIT: PM Conte has condemned it and called it "unconstitutional" and discriminatory.

[EPG]

To be fair to Italian Fascism, I'm pretty sure ethnic cleansing was not its main calling card and platform plank, that propelled it to #1 in the polls (maybe that was class warfare).

[Santander]

Wow, Italy is really going to give fascism another try?

They won 2 consecutive World Cups under Mussolini.

[Person Man]

Wow, Italy is really going to give fascism another try?

They won 2 consecutive World Cups under Mussolini.

That footmanship really told the Royal Navy what's what, I'll tell you hwhat!

[Famous Mortimer]

How is this ethnic cleansing if they're only targeting non-citizens and leaving Roma who are citizens?