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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

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231 points rntn | 6 comments | 02 Apr 23 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.896s | source | bottom
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antirez ◴[02 Apr 23 20:10 UTC] No.35414618[source]▶
Please, don't think Italians are like that. It's just this stupid government. For instance in Italian, unlike Spanish, French, ..., there are no italianized words for all the computer science words, we just use English. In general there is not a big sentiment of culture self-defence. But this government is trying to do things that will appeal the dumb people voting for it.
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1. Veen ◴[02 Apr 23 20:35 UTC] No.35414897[source]▶
There's a bit of a contradiction in your comment. You say Italians aren't like that, but Italians voted the "stupid government" into power and the government is doing these things to appeal to those Italians.
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3. antirez ◴[02 Apr 23 20:48 UTC] No.35415041[source]▶
The fact is that the government reached power mostly because votes not happy with the populists (five starts) and the failure of the left in recent years. Only a small percentage of the voters really care about the other right-shit of the government. However, premier Meloni, to satisfy their allies during the elections, promoted many Lega Padana party crazy people into minister roles... and that's the result.
4. hackerlight ◴[02 Apr 23 20:56 UTC] No.35415111[source]▶
It's the same story everywhere. Every population has a sizeable minority that's far-right, and these people value culture/nation/race, and do not value individuals/freedom. Sometimes they win an election, and then these kind of policies get passed that try to force the people around them to conform to their aesthetic preferences.
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5. Veen ◴[02 Apr 23 21:50 UTC] No.35415633[source]▶
It's not only the far right that value tradition and culture. And it's not only the right that tries to force the people around them to conform to their ideas of how the world should be.
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6. swasheck ◴[02 Apr 23 22:18 UTC] No.35415878{3}[source]▶
it’s not just the far right, but that is a hallmark of the far right. conservatives want to conserve the idealized snapshot of the present or a gilded past.