Yesterday many Florentines, in person or in the photographs published on social media and sites relating to the two protests against the Green pass in Piazza della Signoria and the Fortezza da Basso, were struck by the incredible comparison between lockdown restrictions and the laws that led to the rooms to Nazi gas.
The protest of the no green pass has shown that ignorant and extreme face that mixes various themes thus erasing abysmal differences.
A theme that struck Sara Funaro, the Councilor for Education and Welfare of the Municipality of Florence, who wrote a hard post on her paigna Facebook against yesterday’s protesters.
“Some images – writes the councilor – speak for themselves, I never thought I’d see them in our city. It happened at the demonstration in Florence, even in our city the no-vaxes compare the green pass to Nazi-fascist discrimination against Jews.
This comparison is unacceptable and offends the memory of our elderly people who have suffered from racial laws on their skin and offends those who still struggle every day to keep their memory alive and respected ”.
Funaro continues: “This was said by Sami Modiano, who spent his entire life remembering the horrors of the death camps:“ the yellow star was pain, it meant abandoning one’s home, it was suffering. Nothing I have seen is the same as all this, nothing ”.
His words would be enough to condemn the superficiality and ignorance of these people, but obviously we must continue to explain things.
During the Nazi-Fascism people were discriminated against for being born Jewish or Roma, for being homosexual or for being disabled, they were tortured and killed just to exist ”.
After the no vax i no Green pass: the protest in Piazza della Signoria
Demonstration also in Florence against the green pass: hundreds of people met in Piazza della Signoria and when the police invited them to move to the nearby Piazza San Firenze they partly sat on the ground, even among the tourists. ‘Freedom’ the slogan chosen by the demonstrators, many without masks, who carried some banners with the words’ Green pass? No thanks. On my body I decide ‘and’ For a true democracy! That it does not foment hatred, that it respects dissent “. And then the usual dangerous trivializations that compare the restrictions and anti-covid measures to Nazism (” And after the Green pass, the gas chambers? “)
The demonstration in Piazza della Signoria is one of the initiatives of a mobilization launched in many Italian cities.
And he concludes: “The government asks the no-vax to respect the rules for the protection of everyone’s health. The green pass means making the collective interest prevail over individual selfishness.
Getting vaccinated means protecting your own health and the health of the people who live around us and each of us bears the responsibility for the salvation of the other.
So learn to have respect towards citizens, especially the most fragile ones who, if infected, risk their lives and respect our memory, certain symbols are still open wounds that we do not accept are exploited “.
The Jewish Community
The intervention of the Jewish Community of Florence is also to be recorded on the matter: “” Deep indignation “.
For Enrico Fink, president of the Florentine Jewish Community, the first thought in the face of this “is the desire that, in one of the fantastic virtual journeys that information technology offers us today, those demonstrators would be allowed for a moment to try on their own skin. the experience of secular persecutions “, with the desire” naturally “that the experience was just” virtual because no one wishes such a fate at all “. The second thought “is that in that demonstration a ‘new Nuremberg’ was even hoped for for phantom vaccine crimes. and where, thanks to the fact that “the accounts have never been made with one’s past”, political formations of inspiration more or less veiled linked to fascism have survived, which today are the same ones that suggest the slogans, the cartels, the ways of these manifestations “.
“The last thought” thinking back “to the prompters in the shadow of this idiocy that we saw yesterday”, or “bad faith politicians looking for consensus from any source, disarmed philosophers who put in the place of fame that their thinking fails to procure the easy notoriety that comes from saying nonsense “, and to” those who parade, making themselves suggest similar shame “, the” real problem is idiocy, against which unfortunately there is no vaccine that holds “.
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