Roma, Blacks, and Indians on the League's racist posters: but has government ally Tajani seen them?

The case in Rome

I ask myself, for example: how can a serious, educated, cultured, democratic person like Antonio Tajani remain in government with these rednecks?

The League has had racist posters posted on walls in Rome . A controversy has arisen because Mayor Gualtieri had them removed. The League claims that obscuring the posters is a violation of constitutional freedom. I don't believe this violation exists because the Constitution states that there are limits to freedom of propaganda, and those limits are violations of the law and morality.

I don't know exactly what morality means, and I don't like bans. I know that those posters were—and perhaps will continue to be— an expression of racist ideology and incitement to racial hatred. They depict foreigners, Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, or even Roma women—created with artificial intelligence—occupying homes or stealing pickpockets on buses. These images are accompanied by various "bully" phrases, like " end up in prison immediately," which, to the older of us, remind us of a rather miserable character from an old Renzo Arbore radio show, who always shouted: "in galley!" Salvini hadn't been born yet, but Arbore's genius had grasped this. I believe Mayor Gualtieri did well to have those obscene pieces of political propaganda removed. While I believe that crimes of opinion don't exist, I also believe that unworthy and inhuman opinions exist.

The problem I see is political. I ask myself, for example: how can a serious, educated, cultured, democratic person like Antonio Tajani remain in government with these louts? It's not a question of elegance. It's that they exceed the limits of civility, which are even more insurmountable, I imagine, than the limits of the political program. I even begin to think that even Giorgia Meloni feels uncomfortable around the jesters of the new Ku Klux Klan.