The latest, but not final, clash between the government and the opposition, within the increasingly battered body of Public Discourse, deserves some unpacking. We approach this with our style—fact-checking—a method and term we’ve borrowed from Anglo-Saxon journalism.
Official data shows—without boring you with percentages—that the rate of sexual crimes committed by immigrants, compared to the overall immigrant population in Italy, with a specific focus on irregular immigrants, is significantly high. Saying that Italians do not commit crimes is both a statistical and anthropological absurdity. Similarly, stating that many sexual crimes in Italy involve irregular immigrants is an equally statistical truth.
As always in Italy, truths are ideologically tinted. Viewing this through the lens of left-wing political correctness or radical feminism leads to cries of racist exploitation. Wearing the glasses of the government or a generic center-right mindset, however, turns this into insufferable leniency toward migrants and an irritating tendency to always blame the white male as the perennial patriarch.
Yes, remnants of patriarchal culture persist, but claiming this is our primary problem is false. Attend a serious economic forum and learn why women’s economic dependence is the starting point for psychological subjugation. Talk to trendy psychologists, and they’ll explain how the inability to accept rejection is more a symptom of the void left by the patriarchy, the so-called “death of the contemporary father.”
In short, the issue is complex, and the recently concluded Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was yet another missed opportunity to bring together and synthesize ideas and proposals to fight a monster that is increasingly described, yet remains elusive.
