Posted on 02/12/2024 4:14:37 PM PST by george76
They did the Norm MacDonald meme.
After a group of migrants gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in Italy, CNN responded by expressing concern about how it might help the “far-right.”
Yes, really.
The girl was raped in front of her boyfriend in a public park in the Sicilian city of Catania.
The seven suspects are all Egyptian migrants and three were under the age of 18.
In reporting the story, CNN’s main focus was to worry about how the incident, which is just “the latest in a string of shocking sexual attacks in the country,” might increase political support for the right-wing.
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“Last month’s alleged gang rape in Catania has become not only a symbol of violence against women in the country, but a cause célèbre for Italy’s far-right government,” wrote CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau.
Respondents pointed out that the news network was literally ‘fulfilling the meme’ made famous by Norm MacDonald.
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The CNN piece also highlighted “a scathing op-ed in the right-leaning newspaper Il Giornale” because it accurately pointed to the fact that mass migration is driving sexual crimes across Europe.
“Why are these individuals, without any requirement to access international protection, still in Italy and have not been subject to expulsion?” the editors wrote.
As we previously highlighted, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called for people convicted of violent sexual offences to be chemically castrated in response to the gang rape of the 13-year-old girl.
I want to see some fatherly and brotherly action on this....there was a time where this would be taken care of right away by the locals.
In a career marked with idiocy, this example may just be the most profound. I still can’t believe that he uttered those words. Foolish bastard.
“Far Right” is the pejorative the Far Left uses for any behavior they consider representative of uncivilized behavior (but which they couldn’t attach a suitable definition to if their collective lives depended on it), all in their effort to paint the cause of Conservatism with the same brush.
The whole left/right thing began over whether Louie XVI of France was to have unlimited veto power over the new democratically-elected legislature. Those who supported the King’s power to veto anything they passed sat to his right. Those who opposed, to his left. It was a distinction that represented one of two positions on a single issue.
Except the landscape of modern politics is far too complex to model in terms of a simple linear construct. The whole left-right thing is pretty meaningless now and mostly has devolved into being used as a political bludgeon with little to no discernible meaning.
Thanks for the info.
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