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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:18 PM Jan 2018

Italian candidate for premier defends 'white race' remark

Source: Associated Press

Frances D'emilio, Associated Press Updated 3:51 pm, Monday, January 15, 2018

ROME (AP) — The head of an anti-migrant party who is running to be Italy's premier came to the defense Monday of an Italian gubernatorial candidate who advocated for clamping down on immigrants' numbers to preserve "our white race."

While political opponents condemned the comment by Attilio Fontana, who is running for the governorship of prosperous Lombardy, his League party leader, Matteo Salvini, said Fontana had rightly raised a worry about an "invasion" by Muslims.

Fontana, who is running with support from a center-right alliance, whose backers include former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, made the incendiary comments on Sunday on Radio Padania, the mouthpiece of the League.

He said that being unwilling to "accept all" immigrants "isn't a question of being xenophobic or racist, but a question of being logical or rational."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Italy-Candidate-says-immigration-endangers-our-12498892.php

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Italian candidate for premier defends 'white race' remark (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2018 OP

Are you sure the candidate's name wasn't Donatello Trumpini? What's Italian for 'shithole', anyways? marble falls Jan 2018 #1

Italians can be racist. End of story secondwind Jan 2018 #2

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2018 #5

On a global scale, the "White" race is a distinct minority. Yavin4 Jan 2018 #3

How ironic BumRushDaShow Jan 2018 #4

Has Fontano looked in the mirror? dawn frenzy adams Jan 2018 #6

marble falls

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1. Are you sure the candidate's name wasn't Donatello Trumpini? What's Italian for 'shithole', anyways?

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:35 PM

Jan 2018

secondwind

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2. Italians can be racist. End of story

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:36 PM

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Yavin4

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3. On a global scale, the "White" race is a distinct minority.

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:39 PM

Jan 2018

As globalization continues and more people come into physical contact with one another, the odds that the "White" race will survive over the long term are low.