Roma, 9 apr – Vittorio Feltri without filters, as always. This time no TV duel, an editorial that appeared in Libero of today, dove the director defends the Roman salute. “If the offending greeting is Roman, that is, dating back to the empire of Julius Caesar and successors, What do we care if it was then adopted by the fascists? It always remains Roman, therefore why it should be banned?“. Feltri refers to the episode of the students of a high school in Cuneo, guilty of having greeted Romans and condemned for this to "re-education" with the obligation to study the resistance and the "stories of migrants".

Students forced to "hang out with foreigners"

“Some schoolchildren, guilty of having greeted fascistically for fun, they were not only reprimanded but even condemned to undergo training courses democratic rehabilitation: they must study what the Resistance consisted of and, wasn't enough, they will be forced to associate with immigrants. Already, foreigners transformed into instruments of punishment for students judged reckless and ignorant".
Feltri is ironic about the attitude of the left. “This endless and boring story of the Roman salute condemnable as a crime seems absurd to me and would be laughable if it had not been transformed by the left into an indigestible catchphrase. There is no way to make the anti-fascists understand, committed to fighting the imaginary fascists and convinced that the fake symbols are harbingers of the Duce's return" .

Felts like Trilussa

The director of Libero it even goes as far as prefer the Roman greeting to the handshake for hygiene reasons. “I can't understand by what logic it should be banned, While the handshake, unhygienic, continues not only to be in vogue and even recommended. I go to the restaurant every day. The first thing I do is go to the bathroom to wash my upper limbs. I sit at the table and every idiot who enters the room, knowing me, he comes closer and offers me his palm. I can't deny mine. But I'm pissed off. I don't feel like reaching the sink thirty times a day and out of desperation I hold onto my hand contaminated by the customers. Amen. Wouldn't it be better to act like the ancients of the capital who politely raised their forearms as a sign of homage and ended the torment with all due respect to everyone?”.
Who knows if Vittorio Feltri's homage to Trilussa is intentional. The question of the Roman greeting as a panacea for hygiene was put into rhyme by the famous Capitoline poet in his sonnet “The handshake”: “Shaking your hand with anyone is certainly not a very nice custom: It may happen that you have a thief's grip on your hands, of a pimp or a spy. More the hand, dry or sweaty, when he touched some rubbish, It's the bacillus of a disease that enters your mouth and goes into your gut. Instead, greet her romanically, if you earn a lot with your money and then there's no risk of anything. Because the move you have to make essentially: – We are friends... if we love each other... but we stay at a safe distance“.
Davide Di Stefano
source – https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/approfondimenti/feltri-saluto-romano-piu-igienico-stretta-di-mano-112300/