Trust no bitch.
Not even the ones with the blood of your heroes flowing through their veins.
These hoes ain’t loyal.
She once denounced gay adoption and said it was better to be a fascist than “a faggot”, but Alessandra Mussolini is now happy to admit she got it all wrong.
As Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right Italian prime minister, fights for heterosexual family values, the granddaughter of the dictator Benito Mussolini has emerged as a surprising champion of gay rights and gender fluidity. A former right-wing MP, she has amazed the Italian LGBT community by backing gay adoption to the hilt and taking her battle for gender-fluid politics all the way to the EU.
Mussolini, 60, once an MP for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, was elected an MEP in September but instead of promoting the conservative politics of Forza Italia she started a gender battle with the EU parliament.
Asked to tick male or female on her MEP identity card, she insisted on leaving the space blank. “I was shocked. It’s discriminatory — they had my picture and fingerprints, isn’t that enough?” she told The Times.
“Why is gender important? And where is the ‘prefer not to mention’ that young people use when signing contracts? I told them they are stuck in the Middle Ages.” She refused to apply for the card.
It is a huge change for Mussolini, who has three children. She has in the past expressed admiration for her grandfather, who exiled gay people to small Mediterranean islands during his fascist dictatorship.
In 2006, when challenged on her views by a transgender politician on TV, Mussolini said, “I am fascist and proud of it”, before adding: “Better fascist than a faggot.” In 2012, she said she was worried about the children of same-sex parents seeing them “rolling around in bed”.
In an interview with The Times more than a decade later, however, she said she now believed there were no rules about parenting. “The most important thing is that you can give love,” she said.
Explaining her about-turn, she said: “People can change, you can learn from the young.”
Gabriele Piazzoni, president of the Italian LGBT group Arcigay, said Mussolini had made a “180-degree shift from the conservative, heterosexual, Catholic politics she was associated with”. He added: “People usually change their views thanks to an LGBT friend or family member. That is worth a hundred of our campaigns.”
Mussolini’s party is part of the coalition government led by Giorgia Meloni but her views could not be more different from those of Italy’s first female prime minister, who has opposed same-sex parenting, railed against “LGBT lobbies” and claimed that gender-fluid theories are destroying the central role of the mother.
Before Meloni was elected last September, officials in her party, the Brothers of Italy, demanded that the Italian state broadcaster censor an episode of Peppa Pig because it featured a character with two mothers. Asked about the growing distance between her and Meloni, Mussolini replied: “Why is gender so important? Respect for others is the most important thing.”
The Brothers of Italy party is descended from the postwar MSI party, which took in wartime fascists. Several party members today have fond memories of Benito Mussolini, including the senate speaker Ignazio La Russa, who has a bust of the dictator at his home.
Despite his crushing of democracy, and racist laws that expelled Jews from public life, Mussolini was not demonised in Italy after the Second World War as Hitler was in Germany. This allowed the growth of parties such as the MSI — as well as the political career of his granddaughter.
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Alessandro Zan, who wrote the bill, said, said: “I am happy whenever anyone like Mussolini changes their views based on their experience and personal reflection.”
Zan said that Mussolini could yet become a respected gay icon in Italy, along with Madonna, Lady Gaga and Raffaella Carrà, the Italian singer and dancer who promoted gay rights. “Mussolini is not there yet, but she is on the right track,” he said.
It’s sad.
Mussolini was one of the last noble figures of history that had a sort of okay legacy.
We should note that Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter also sold him down the river for the Jews.
I miss the good old days…