Thread by @LavrentisBeria4

Εδώ αξίζει τον κόπο να παραθέσουμε μερικά πράγματα που είχε γράψει η Οριάνα Φαλάτσι πριν 20 χρόνια και όλοι της επιτέθηκαν. Και μην ακούσω από τίποτα post millenials ότι ήταν "φασίστας" έκτος αν έχουν φάει και αυτοί 3 σφαίρες από τη Μεξικάνικη αστυνομία στη σφαγή του Tlatelolco

"Ιn life and in history there are times when it is not allowed to be afraid. Times when it’s immoral and not a civil act to be afraid. Those who avoid truth because of weakness or a lack of courage or the habit of fence sitting, it seems to me, are masochists."

"Yes, masochists. Do we want to face this discussion on what you call the Conflict Between Two Cultures? Well, if you want to know, it irritates me even to talk about two cultures-to put them on the same plane as if they were parallel realities, of equal weight and equal extent."

"People like me have a nice saying: “With the catholic church I’m not involved.” Alas, I’m involved, oh yes. Whether I like it or not, I’m involved. And how could I not be? I was born in a country of churches"

"And with that music, in this landscape, I grew up. Through that music and this landscape I learned what architecture, sculpture, painting, and art are. Through that church (later rejected) I began to ask myself what good and evil, and…my God…"

"Again I wrote “my God.” For all my secularism, for all my atheism, I’m so imbued with Catholic culture that it’s a direct part of my way of expressing myself...Despite my anticlericalism, I move there comfortably. "

I’m telling you that we Italians aren’t in the same situation as Americans: a mosaic of ethnic groups and religions, a grab bag of a thousand cultures, at the same time open to any invasion and capable of repelling it. "

"Because that would be equivalent to throwing out Dante, Michelangelo, Raphael, the renaissance, the Risorgimento, the freedoms that we have well or badly achieved, our Patria. It would mean to give them Italy on a platter. And I don’t want to give them Italy on a platter."

"So here’s my answer to your question about the conflict between the two cultures. I say that in the world there’s a place for everyone. Everyone can do what they like at home. "

"And if in certain countries women are so stupid as to accept the chador or the veil from which you look through a tightly woven net up to the eyes, too bad for them. If they’re stupid enough to accept not having their pictures taken, etc., too bad for them."

If they’re so moronic as to marry an oaf who’d take four wives, too bad for them. I won’t be the one to stop them. That would be the last thing I’d do. I was schooled in the concept of freedom and my mamma said “The world is beautiful because it’s full of variety.”

"But to bring these things into my Patria? No. Clearly to negotiate with them is impossible.... Whoever believes the contrary is deluded."