Has anyone seen this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18070813 What baffles me is that anyone would be surprised at all given the man's very public support for Italian fascists with his one arm salutes. Yet football still prvovides him with a very comfortable living.
I just thought I'd repost this - I noticed and raised this issue nearly a year ago.....unfortunately it didn't get a murmur...shall i just refrain from the obligatory "i told you so"?
Extremism is far more prevalent in our society than most people realise. Over the years I have known people who have been at both ends of extremism - National Front and Far Left wing communists and Union reps. We all know about the extremist right wing, but until I had met the extremist left wingers I did not realise just had extreme or how much power they have in our society. All of the local protests and riots there have been near Brighton where I live have been organised by left wing extremists, mainly union reps when I was one but left due to their extremism, purely for political reasons and I was at several meetings where they were rallying support and planning their actions. Don't be fooled by them like I was before my eyes were opened.
Why should his political views, no matter how deplorable, people employing him if they so choose? Freedom of speech, look it up.
I think it is highly unlikely that Paulo di Canio agrees with many of the things that come to mind when one hears the term Fascist. Similarly I doubt many modern communist's views have much to do with Stalinism. Extremism in any form is usually the real problem and religion exemplifies this better than anything. I myself am torn these days between polar opposites. Democracy, socialism, sharing and a commitment to community sees to be good and fair and just, yet these days with the vast majority of people unable to comprehend basic science, finance and mathematics, the chance for the majority to make a stupid decision is far, far, greater than giving that decision to a suitably qualified expert. These days decisions are made by governments based on who has the most compelling sales force. I think it is very wrong to bring speculation about Paulo Di Canio's political views into question. This is getting very close to thought policing, which is a very extreme policy. As long as he does not want to share his thoughts, they should remain his own, and he should not be persecuted for them.
Being that both my father & step father fought in WW2 i just have a downer on people who give Nazi salutes.
My father fought against the Japanese in WW2. To the day he died he would have supported the destruction of the entire island of Japan by the dropping of multiple atomic weapons. I have tried not to adopt all his views. See Gazer's fife mime when he scored for Rangers. Paulo Di Canio has always said that his gesture was more to identify with his club's fans (who probably are fascist) than because of any strong personal views. I think it is more the case of an unfortunite choice of association by the Lazio supporters - like Spurs supporters adopting their nickname - and a rather silly young man thinking it was a good idea to gain favor by playing up to it.
He does have a tattoo of the word DUX though TT, which is a reference to Mussolini, a man who he claims was very principled and misunderstood. That's from his own autobiography. It's a slight strange one for me, as I'm pretty tolerant of virtually any opinion and the voicing of those opinions, believe it or not, but fascism attempts to suppress free speech, so I'm completely opposed to it. Di Canio has a right to pursue any career that he wants to, but I'd feel very uncomfortable having him at Spurs. Pretty unlikely to happen, admittedly. As for Union reps, I've found that they tend to fall into one of two camps: Communists and management collaborators!
Yeah, I was actually surprised when I found out that Mussolini (and Franco from Spain) still have many people in their countries that think they were good leaders, obviously quite unlike Germany and Hitler. I think this is very much a case of being careful what you attach to the labels of communism and fascism. As for union reps, it is a bit sad that being a manager, I prefered the communists to the management collaborators, because they were less militant. If you didn't give the collaborators what they demanded, they wouldn't collaborate! At least if you gave the communists a fair deal they were more or less bound by their own philosophy to accept it.
It's all about giving someone a label, and assuming things about them because of that label. Usual media witch-hunt. Oh, and I'm leftist so I have no sympathy for any "fascist" opinions he actually has, but he should never be discriminated against for having those opinions.
We had a lazy player at gillingham, striker did not pull his weight and was managed out. Because he was black he thew the racism card in. Went to court nothing came of it just bad publicity for club and player.
Hate crime, those based on persecution of people based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality etc, the very underpinning of facism is a criminal offence, look it up
Fascism is not illegal. Hate crimes are illegal. Is anyone here suggesting Di Canio is guilty of a hate crime?
He's entitled to hold any views he wants. I don't care if his view is that all non-italian babies should be fed to lions at birth and that only people with one arm can vote, with only one legged women running for office. It really doesn't matter how far out, how extreme or how ridiculous someones political views are. You can't just decide they cannot hold a certain job because they think xyz. It is the difference between holding a prejudice and actively discriminating against someone that people seem to be misunderstanding. There is nothing wrong with having a prejudice, you may not agree with it, but someones personal views are theres to have and regardless of how much you disagree it isn't your place to decide how they should be treated based on there views. If however that person with facist views then beats a man because he is <insert difference based on race/gender/disability etc> then it is absolutely deplorable and at that point the person opens themselves up for both critisism and punishment. Simply holding a view should never allow you to be persecuted though. As for people still having good things to say about leaders we consider to be terrible, it does happen - quite a lot. What people forget is that those leaders (the hitlers, the mussolinis etc) didn't only commit atrocities, but lead there countries. We judge them based on certain events but others from there respective countries have a better insight into the positive effects they had on there countries. Even in the case of Hitler he did fantastic things for Germany before losing the plot and trying to take over the world and exterminate the jews... I doubt there are many people left saying he was misunderstood or that he wasn't a bad bloke but for all there faults, lots of the time these terrible leaders have done a lot of good in different areas. Even if you look at the arab uprisings - there are die hard supporters of the removed dictators - people whos lives have been great under leaders who others see as the devil. I guess it is all about perception - it depends where you are standing to what view you get.
