Giorgia Meloni's feminism is a wolf in sheep's clothing, NatashaNoman writes.
on Twitter in August that appeared to show a Ukrainian woman being raped by a Guinean asylum seeker. In tweeting the video, Meloni helped make it a national, viral spectacle causing the woman to be retraumatized after the assault as the video was reshared on social media. “I’m desperate, they recognized me from the video,” she told investigators, according to Italian newspaperIn this ultimate violation of posting the video, Meloni weaponized sexual assault to further her anti-immigration stance.
“No to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders; no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people,” she also said while campaigning, in another attempt to whip up anti-immigration fear and support. Meloni is as much a feminist as a wolf in sheep’s clothing is a sheep. In co-opting an identity and cause that she then weaponizes to attack the very same people the cause is intended to protect, figures like Meloni present a much greater threat to feminism than cisgender men. Of course feminism is not a monolith — it is a complicated umbrella ideology with multiple and sometimes competing factions. But at its core, it is a movement designed to advance and protect women’s rights.
Figures like Meloni and Greene, white women — and right-wing extremist at that — who access positions of power in a system designed to oppress minorities, and then use that system to simultaneously advance their own careers and reactionary, exclusionary politics are not just a disgrace to feminism: They are dangerous. They promote ideologies that covertly and overtlyA wolf is easier to identify. You know the dangers, you know what you’re dealing with.
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