I still don’t understand why you can’t grasp the point.
I plainly stated my protest is not with the way Italians are depicted- in fact i went out of my way to make sure you understood this and correctd my initial response. My protest is the double standard, which is what we are seeing daily with Christians, conservatives, the Jan 6 trespassers, white people, Italian Americans, etc, etc.
There are thousands upon thousand of famed and acknowledged Italian-Americans who have shared positive values in our culture, such as
businessman Lee Iacocca,
chocolatier Dominic Ghirardelli,
banker Amadeo Giannini,
architect Robert Venturi,
artist Frank Stella,
chefs Ettore Buoiardi (Boyardee), Rachel Ray, Tom Colicchio;
industrial designers Jacuzzi and Zamboni;
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito;
astronaut Walter Schirra;
signer of the Declaration of Independence William Paca;
physicist Enrico Fermi;
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo;
dozens of mayors and governors;
four Catholic Cardinals;
university presidents Bartlett Giamatti and John DeGioa;
thousands of artists, musicians and writers;
too many entertainers and sports figures to mention...
So why obsess about the criminal element? There are criminals and movies about them in every walk of American life, from every ethnicity.