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Being anti-fascists by profession in 2020, in the absence of a fascist regime, is not easy. It’s hard work that requires daily commitment and often fiery imagination. In fact, one must also be able to see what is not there and perhaps have a propensity for suspicion that ends in romance (or joke). An example of this type of “anti-fascist surveillance” is provided by our colleague Sandro Ruotolo, a historical column in the broadcasts of Michele Santoro. Although he has recently become a senator of the republic, Ruotolo continues his mission of salvation and in these days he has made a sensational antifascist first, managing to identify a very dangerous “micro signal for the fascists” diabolically hidden in a League manifesto that announces a meeting of the Secretary of Salvini in Naples. The vigilante Ruotolo has launched (or relaunched, it is not clear) this tweet message: «Piazza della Posta does not exist in Naples. Unless you are a hundred years old. It is called piazza Giacomo Matteotti assassinated by the fascists. They are micro signals for fascists. But we notice them and we are here, ready to reveal them and not leave them unexplained. Ciro Pellegrino (journalist) ». In practice, Ruotolo accuses the League’s manifesto of locating the Salvini rally in the Piazza della posta, removing the modern name of the square dedicated to Matteotti, the Social Democratic politician assassinated by the fascists. But that is not the case at all. In fact, in the manifesto it is written, in large letters, only “Piazza Matteotti” (below, in lower case, in parentheses, you can also read Piazza della Posta because it is so popularly known to the Neapolitans).
Poor eyesight – Someone on twitter points out: “Do you have vision problems?” But Ruotolo doesn’t listen to reasons. For the professional anti-fascist, obviously, it is not what is written, but what he sees in it. And many of his followers also agree. In fact, yesterday the tweet had 5,900 “likes” and 1,500 increases. The comments would then be studied in a university course that analyzes the consequences of ideology: «Salvini never misses the opportunity to wink at the lumps», «he addresses his comrades», «other than the” microsignals “.. The years that this shadowy figure speaks in code for the benefit of comrades “,” legaiole locks “,” the capiton is a great fool “,” are infamous even on billboards. They are not micro signals, they are concrete acts of demolition of democratic memory “,” they suck “,” they take him away with rotten tomatoes on his face “,” someone like that should not set foot in Campania “,” this League is a shame “,” Salvini is really a shame “,” he no longer has excuses … enough “,” ignoble beings “,” Fascists of me “,” Bravo Sandro! “,” Shameless “,” the fascists persevere in their declaration of inhumanity. “All this under the League manifesto, reproduced by Ruotolo himself, which bears the words, in large format:” Piazza Matteotti “. To tell the truth, some Neapolitans also intervened who, with common sense, pointed out that this controversy is “bullshit” because “that is known as the Piazza delle Poste Central … ignorance is an ugly beast.” Then he specified: “By the way, I’m a anti-fascist … “. Other Neapolitans also comment:” But we Neapolitans indicate it as the square of the central post office. “Another gives several examples of this commonly used toponymy that duplicates the names of squares and streets:” Piazza Bovio that becomes Piazza Borsa or simply University, Corso Umberto that becomes Rettifilo, Nicola Amore becomes 4 Palazzi … come on, ha. So the name of the square is there, the one in parentheses is just an indication … I also say ‘central post office’ ». Another writes: “Piazza Cosimo Fanzago for the majority of Neapolitans, especially Vomeresi, is and will always be Piazza Bernini.” Even some Ruotolo fans object: «In my opinion it is a useless controversy. Sandro Ruotolo, whom I respect, being a Neapolitan like me, knows well that in Naples that square is for most Neapolitans “Piazza della Posta” but not to offend the memory of a martyr of fascism or because the Neapolitans are fascists ». And still others: «I agree. I always called the post office “,” until a certain age I did not even know what Piazza Matteotti was (there were no fascists in my house).
To Siena – Even in Siena, a red city for seventy years, there is the Piazza Matteotti, better known, in popular jargon, as Piazza della Posta and, for decades, no colleague who said “Piazza della Posta” has come to mind to wink to fascism. However, Ruotolo’s tweet was also joined by the ingenious comment of the intellectual who yesterday on the page, while writing that in fact in Salvini’s manifesto it says “Piazza Matteotti”, he points out that «it is accompanied by a parenthesis, apparently inoffensive (Piazza della Posta) ». For mere mortals it is “harmless”, but for this journalist (as for Ruotolo) it is not done. He explains that “it is actually a coded mockery and a nod to the world of the extreme right.” Then he adds that “rejecting toponymy is an elementary strategy for rejecting history. A strategy that shows how much sympathy for fascism and the rejection of the Republic is still alive on the right, twenty-five years after Fiuggi. Any comment is useless. In reality, for those who really care about democracy, the dangers that must now be fought do not lie in toponymy, but in the progressive restriction of personal freedoms, the growing intolerance, the humiliation of Parliament by the excessive power of the executive. The current threat to democracy is the one pointed out by Pierluigi Battista in a recent comment: “Today, instead of the debate, of the” public discussion space “, there is an apology for nausea, the culture of suspicion, the judgment of intentions , the demonizing oversimplification, the caricaturing of different theses. ”It seems the perfect description of the episode of the Naples manifesto. However, unfortunately, these are the vices of the left.
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