The march against racism was very successful yesterday. But there really is a racist danger in Italy? Indeed, behind the demand for legality and the fears of out-of-control migratory flows there is a wave of xenophobia? Attentive observer of Italian politics and son of the only land immune to racism, Sicily («Racism is a disease for blonde people»), Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has his own idea about the Milan demonstration.
Which?
«It's called “induced attention”. It's that phenomenon where from the moment you decide to buy a Vespa, you see Wasps everywhere. And if you want to move house, you see “For sale” everywhere. He studies psychology. In politics, through refined propaganda mechanisms – and be careful: mirrored, that is, used both by those who ride the fear of others and by those who denounce racism – it means bringing people's interest to something that has always been happening, to which, however, no one until then had given a particular meaning".
And which now becomes greedy political material.
«It's been thirty years, or more, that people are dying in the Mediterranean. I remember them as a boy, on the beaches of Sicily, the beached fishing boats with writings in Arabic. But no one said anything. Apart from Andrea Camilleri. On purpose: he wrote the story of Montalbano and the migrants three years ago, then now it is broadcast on Rai and the anti-racist propaganda machine arrives to spark the controversy. But read Davide Enia, Notes for a shipwreck, and see how long people have been dying in the sea of Lampedusa… But then there were no Savianos, the Veronese, the Albinati to write articles and books about it, there were no links to Che tempo che fa…» Read More