The Prosecutor’s Office of Padova (Italy) has asked a local court to remove any same-sex non-biological parent on birth certificates, denying same-sex families the right to State recognition.
people don’t like to acknowledge it, but what happens in the state has a knock on effect here in the EU. It empowers our rightwing fucks to steal the same tactics that worked in the US and start them here
That means we’ll always be behind as those tactics need time to simmer but the news already helps by reporting on what happens over there, reactionaries take that and run with it. They tried that in my country recently with the drag stuff, thankfully their protest failed
yall over there don’t exist in a vacuum, sadly
edit: also don’t forget there’s already a nice breeding ground over here. The nazis were European after all
It’s really not much better. Netherlands is better than Florida, but California is better than Poland. A couple of years ago, a gay man was burned alive in Latvia. Hungry was declared to be a non democracy.
Don’t underestimate the shit hole capacity of Europe.
Bummer. I always expect European countries to be more reasonable than the states but I guess bigotry is everywhere.
people don’t like to acknowledge it, but what happens in the state has a knock on effect here in the EU. It empowers our rightwing fucks to steal the same tactics that worked in the US and start them here
That means we’ll always be behind as those tactics need time to simmer but the news already helps by reporting on what happens over there, reactionaries take that and run with it. They tried that in my country recently with the drag stuff, thankfully their protest failed
yall over there don’t exist in a vacuum, sadly
edit: also don’t forget there’s already a nice breeding ground over here. The nazis were European after all
The Nazis based their eugenics philosophy on Americans treatment of Black and indigenous people, its always been this way
Yea that’s fair, but I’m pointing out that we had the nazis to show that, no, Europe is in fact Not Better
Rabbits
I guess with the pervasiveness of the “stupid americans” mentality that a lot of europeans vocalize prepared me to expect differently.
I moved to Norway fairly recently and the amount of pro-Trump morons over here has also been a bit surprising.
It’s really not much better. Netherlands is better than Florida, but California is better than Poland. A couple of years ago, a gay man was burned alive in Latvia. Hungry was declared to be a non democracy.
Don’t underestimate the shit hole capacity of Europe.
Italy has a history with fascism… and some leaders in Italy’s government are Mussolini stans still to this day.
Atlantic: The Return of Fascism in Italy
NPR: What you need to know about Italy’s new far-right leader Giorgia Meloni
The Intercept: It’s a Girl (Fascist)! Giorgia Meloni will be Italy’s first woman prime minister — and part of a long tradition of white womanhood being central to fascism.