Donatella Di Cesare, a professor of philosophy at Sapienza College (Rome), has been charged with “legal defamation” for describing a politician’s views as “neo-Hitlerite.”
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In accordance with Times Higher Education:
The fees in opposition to Professor Di Cesare stem from April 2023, when the agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida, the brother-in-law of [Prime Minister Giorgia] Meloni and a staunch political ally, mentioned in a public speech on migration, “We can’t give up to the concept of ethnic substitute.” The phrase “ethnic substitute” is strongly related to the “nice substitute concept”, a racist conspiracy that white Europeans are being intentionally “changed” by migrants of color, usually from Muslim-majority international locations, in a plot led by Jewish individuals…
Professor Di Cesare, who has printed extensively on antisemitism, racism and conspiracy theories, was subsequently requested in regards to the feedback throughout an look on the speak present DiMartedì. She described the idea of “ethnic substitute” as a “conspiracist delusion” and “the center of Hitlerism”, noting its presence in Nazi ideology that led to the Holocaust.
“I consider that the minister’s phrases can’t be taken as a gaffe, as a result of he spoke like a Gauleiter, like a neo-Hitlerite governor,” she added.
Professor Di Cesare was indicted earlier this month, telling Instances Greater Schooling that Mr Lollobrigida accused her of desirous to “defame each the Italian authorities and his household”. The primary listening to will happen on 15 Might.
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