Today's reflection is that we're so afraid of being divisive. That we're even starting to sterilize our memory. At that point, it's no longer inclusion. It's amnesia with good manners. Absolutely not.
Alice De Andrè, actress (and Fabrizio's niece), is still using social media, where her videos are starting to gain popularity, to analyze the May Day concert incident, where Sicilian singer Delia distorted "Bella Ciao" by replacing the word "partisan" with the expression "human being." She didn't mean to be divisive, she says.
"And because the problem with the story was evidently that it was too precise," Alice De Andrè from Sardinia attacks. "I mean, imagine the scene: the Resistance becomes an inclusive WhatsApp group. Guys, no more partisans because then someone gets offended. Let's pit human beings against human beings. But very convenient, clean, neutral... a little empty. Because when you remove the awkward words, you're not broadening the meaning. You're diluting it like watered-down wine at village festivals. You drink more, but you feel nothing. And besides, etymologically, the word partisan isn't divisive."
Thus the reflection continues: "A partisan is someone who takes part, period. Against an occupier, against oppression, against something they choose not to accept. So yes, they were all human beings. But human beings who decided which side they were on. Look, I understand their will too. You want to do something different, you want to be inclusive," he says, turning to Delia, "you think you're doing something revolutionary. But this is the real deal, shooting yourself in the foot, eh? It's worse than chicken meatballs. It's not done. Because not all words have to stay in the middle, acting like diplomats. Some words have to dirty things up, they have to take a stand."
They have to say, according to de Andrè, "I'm here. Otherwise, we'll do it all again soon." Romeo and Juliet become two individuals with family differences. And war, one of the most classic barroom squabbles. The reflection of the day is that we're so afraid of being divisive. That we're starting to sterilize even our memory. At that point, it's no longer inclusion. It's amnesia with good manners. Absolutely not."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
