Dear Feltri Director,
I would like to know your opinion about the new vice president of the Tuscany Region, Mia Bintou Diop. I’ve read your CV and, grant me, I don’t understand how you can justify such a relevant position.
He was very young, still a student, had no real experience. I ask myself: is this enough to lead a Region? Or is there just ideology behind this nomination? Thank you if you want to answer me.
Paolo Innocenti
Dear Paolo,
don’t worry: it’s not you who don’t understand, it’s politics who have definitely lost their minds. The appointment of Miss Mia Bintou Diop as vice president of the Tuscany Region is not a mystery. This is just another ideological stunt by left-wing groups who are now electing regional managers as if they were testimonials for an advertising campaign. Experience, competency, curriculum, results are not important. So what’s important? Symbols count. And what symbols are tempting today? Black skin. Young age. Progressive activist identity. Full package of labels: anti-sexism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-Zionism. An anti group that isn’t even worth a title, but to leftists is worth more than public competition.
Because, you see, Diop is 23 years old, still a student, has no outstanding administrative experience, has never had any real responsibility, but suddenly becomes vice president of a very important region. For achievements? No. For skills? Also not. Because it is the perfect symbol to display as a trophy of identity: the daughter of a Senegalese immigrant and black.
Furthermore, in detail, the young woman proudly declared her friendship with Elly Schlein. So, let’s be honest: what are we talking about? Far from family, here we are dealing with party friendship.
A man enters the control room not for what he knows how to do, but for who he knows and for what he represents in the imagination of the progressive left: young, black, anti-Zionist, anti-fascist, member of Arcigay. Wow. I just say: wow, reading these qualities.
Allow me to make an observation: being a member of Arcigay is no feat. Being anti-Zionist is not an administrative competency. Fighting everything, including fascism, is not a CV. And most importantly, define anti-Zionism as a social medal
sticking it to your chest says a lot about the cultural level of the narrative. Additionally, I find it curious how anti-racism emerges while promoting a position – anti-Zionism – that often results in overt forms of discrimination. But there it was: what mattered, to certain leftists, was being able to say that they had put a young black girl out there. The rest, namely ruling a region, comes later, if it comes at all.
The reality is simple: Diop was chosen not because of his abilities, but because of what he represents in progressive propaganda. A policy is reduced to casting, where competence is secondary and identity is everything.
Italy does not deserve this political infantilism.
Tuscany, no less.
