No to hate campaigns but healthy self-criticism does not hurt. Starting from Spain and Vox

If Giorgia Meloni believes that a hate campaign is underway against her, it is right, indeed a duty, that she do everything to prevent this drift, denouncing what she believes to be “insults, threats and mystifications”. Comparisons with Hitler or Putin’s ideologues are, as well as offensive, particularly foolish. The political battle has never been free from harsh tones and even personal harshness, but these days a supplement of attention is right, to prevent keyboard lions, very active especially against a woman, from imagining a qualitative leap. It would be useful, however, if in addition to the legitimate complaint, there was also a self-criticism: if it is to be prevented that a madman, “a displaced person”, as Meloni says, can endanger his personal safety, it is also right to listen to the discomfort of the community Lgtb to be identified as “a lobby”, in the speech that the president of the Brothers of Italy gave in Spain at the demonstration of the far-right party Vox. Even those words, recited in a very aggressive tone, can be misunderstood by some fanatic looking for enemies to identify. And so the invitation to respect and prudence in language applies to everyone, from talk show commentators to political leaders.