And now, what about universal values, respect for women and “institutions,” on which the left has self-constructed its allure? Answer: all sucked into the whirlpool of double standards. In fact, let’s call it what it is, hypocrisy. The issue is the now famous commemoration of Marcinelle last Saturday, August 8, 70 years since the mining accident in which 262 workers died, including 136 Italians. 70 years, a round number. Will it be possible to commemorate with common decorum and mourning? Not a chance. Summary of the previous episode. While, in the Belgian town, Senate President La Russa reads a message from Head of State Sergio Mattarella, a group of unionists turn their backs. “They are from the Cgil!” denounce members of Brothers of Italy, present in a sizable delegation. No, they are from the Fgbt, a Belgian union, which claims the gesture. Only the matter is not so simple to close, because the Cgil, also present there with Secretary Landini, does nothing but deny the protest. It does not condemn the unpleasantness of the “twin” union (with which it had organized other moments of remembrance the day before), nor does it distance itself. Yesterday another piece was added to this sad story. With the words of La Russa himself, who upon returning to Italy takes a few shots at the Corriere della Sera. “I preferred to ignore that display of intolerance so as not to disturb the sacredness of the occasion and that place,” he prefaces regarding the ugly episode of Saturday.
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INSTRUMENTAL CONTROVERSY
“I did not intend to mix the task I had received of reading the words of the President of the Republic with the low and instrumental political controversy they were carrying out.” But he adds: “Today I am not in Marcinelle and I feel I can speak more freely: the act of turning their backs while I was reading the message from the Head of State was the utmost disrespect for the place and the moment by the Cgil.” When he is told that the Corso Italia union has denied it, La Russa adds: “I would like to give Landini some advice. Unsolicited. Before making categorical statements, like saying that those who denounced the vulgar protest were victims of heatstroke, he should look carefully at who is within earshot of certain comments and certain snickers.” Specifically, continues the second highest office of the State, “several parliamentarians, as well as a person close to Fdi who holds a position in the Senate, were sitting near Landini and heard certain words from him and those close to him: vulgar comments, while I was speaking, and also sexist, while the Vice President of the European Parliament Antonella Sberna, a member of Fdi, was speaking, to whom they also blatantly showed their backsides. These words were reported to me and I certainly do not disclose them. I hope they were not recorded. It would be really embarrassing for those who said them.”
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SOLEMN MOMENT
To recap, then: desecrating a solemn moment in which a terrible mining accident is remembered, engraved in the memory and history of our country. Turning their backs on the reading of the message from the President of the Republic. Insulting a woman, moreover a representative of the European Parliament. The accusations made by the second highest office of the State are very serious, but yesterday on the left no reaction was stirred. From Fdi, La Russa’s accusations are taken up and relayed. Malan, the party leader of the Meloni party in the Senate, says: “I hope that such unjustifiable offenses find firm condemnation from all political forces.” On the left, silence. It’s almost boring, but nevertheless useful, to ask what would have happened if the roles were reversed. If a right-wing European identity association, with a more or less homologous Italian acronym present there, had turned their backs on a left-wing Senate president. It would have resulted in an exhausting trial with the verdict already written. Now, instead, everyone in the fantastic progressive world plays dumb, in the August heat they choose to bury their heads in the sand like ostriches. The same old script.
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