Juno News - October 04, 2022


Canadian media freak out over new Italian Prime Minister

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Andrew Bill C-63 Anthony Albanese Emmanuel Macron Justin Trudeau Melanie Jolie Mario Draghi Viktor Orban Barack Obama Designate Harrison
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The first female prime minister of the G7 nation of Italy, Georgia Maloney, is in office, and the legacy media are not happy. In fact, they're not happy at all. They're trying to link her election to the Iran protests and Bill C-21, and say that she's a threat to women's rights.

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00:00:00.000 Let's talk about the big media freakout this week though, firing on all cylinders and that was the
00:00:06.380 election of Georgia Maloney in Italy as the Prime Minister Designate. Now this is a broad coalition
00:00:14.760 that we have here. The legacy media have not at all been too keen on this and neither has I should
00:00:22.820 say Justin Trudeau or Melanie Jolie or the foreign policy apparatus of Canada, none of whom have given
00:00:29.080 the obligatory congratulatory message that they gave to Mario Draghi, that they gave to Emmanuel
00:00:35.020 Macron, that they gave to Anthony Albanese. But there's been a particularly bizarre mainstream
00:00:42.280 media take that's like trying to weave this into a weird global and Canadian context. I was having
00:00:49.100 trouble following this one, Harrison. Maybe you can make some sense of it. Well, right. So what they're
00:00:53.220 trying to do here and what we've seen from a couple of other legacy media sources this week is to try
00:00:57.840 and take the election of Georgia Maloney and what we're seeing in Iran, for example, with the
00:01:03.260 protest, the protest against the mandatory hijab there. They're trying to basically say that because
00:01:09.080 of this, because of the election of the first female prime minister in Italy, women's rights are 0.92
00:01:14.960 under attack in Italy. Try and follow that logic along with us because we're having some trouble
00:01:19.820 ourselves. But supposedly, Andrew, women's rights are under attack across the world and they're kind of
00:01:25.100 using the protest in Iran and the election of Georgia Maloney to say, well, look, this is what's
00:01:29.980 going on. We've got we've got women protesting for their rights in Iran when in Italy, a bunch of
00:01:34.940 Italians just voted in some patriarchal first female prime minister. Again, it's very difficult to follow
00:01:41.280 along with the logic here, but we're trying our best. And then on top of that, Andrew, what they're
00:01:45.380 trying to do, what we've seen from a lot of legacy media sources is to say, actually, the protest in
00:01:50.440 Iran are, you know, you can almost compare the struggles that the women are facing in Iran to
00:01:56.340 what is going on in Quebec with Bill C-21. So again, we've got we've got this this one article
00:02:01.480 from the Toronto Star where this columnist is trying to mix all three together. She's trying to
00:02:06.320 basically say that the election of Georgia Maloney spells, you know, danger for women's rights in 0.83
00:02:11.180 Italy, again, which is hilarious. And then, you know, the protest in Iran for women's freedom
00:02:15.900 can be equated somehow to the protest in Quebec against Bill C-21, which is about which is about
00:02:22.560 basically saying if you work in the public service, you can't have religious attire on. I'm not going
00:02:27.060 to defend Bill C-21. I don't personally agree with it. But again, the idea that we can compare the two
00:02:31.560 together is ridiculous. And then, of course, to add on top of that, this this idea, Andrew, that
00:02:35.620 Georgia Maloney's election upholds the patriarchy in Italy, in Europe. Try and try and, you know, 0.99
00:02:41.360 help me out with this one, Andrew. Yeah, I mean, let's first off just explain that away. What they
00:02:46.300 don't like is that she's pro-life and pro-family. They don't like that she supports families that
00:02:52.180 have a traditional structure, which again, I'm a libertarian. I don't support restricting gay
00:02:56.740 marriage, but they don't like that she's pro-life, that she doesn't like abortion. They like that she 0.99
00:03:01.280 is taking that Viktor Orban position of believing that strong families build strong societies, which I
00:03:06.960 don't think is a controversial thing. But it's interesting how we hear all of the time this
00:03:11.740 hand-wringing about how we need more representation and more women in politics. And then you get a 1.00
00:03:15.880 woman who's elected to a very prominent position in Italy, the head of that country's government,
00:03:22.000 a G7 nation. And all of a sudden, well, she's not the right kind of woman. And this column
00:03:26.440 in the Toronto Star makes this point that Maloney is an example of how representation in circles of
00:03:32.760 power is meaningless if the representative does not also challenge the existing hierarchy and bias.
00:03:38.700 The difference with Iran is it doesn't care to make its patriarchy palatable. So the implication 0.90
00:03:45.120 is that Iran and Italy are both patriarchies. And Italy, though, is so particularly progressive
00:03:51.120 because Italy has a woman as the patriarch. Now, woman as the... 1.00
00:03:56.860 I'm rusty on my Latin, but I think that means gender, non-binary, gender-neutral patriarch does.
00:04:09.140 So you can have a male patriarch, a female patriarch, a genderqueer, non-binary patriarch. Doesn't matter. 0.99
00:04:16.460 You can have any kind of arc you want with that. But it's absurd and it's offensive. And it's like
00:04:21.880 saying if you didn't like Barack Obama's policies that, well, he's not really the first black president
00:04:27.560 because, you know, he's not voting the right way or something like that. She is a female that's risen 0.77
00:04:33.940 up, the first prime minister of Italy. You don't have to like her. You don't have to respect her.
00:04:39.200 But it's amazing how they move the goalposts just to rationalize away that. And as for like
00:04:45.340 linking Italy and Iran and Quebec, I've had to write columns on deadline before when I really don't know
00:04:51.220 what I'm going to say. This strikes me as that, where it's like, oh, I've got to submit 800 words.
00:04:55.680 I'm only at 300. Quebec. Let's throw something about Quebec in. That's good for 200 to 300 words.
00:05:03.580 And then, oh, shoot, I'm still 200 down. Italy, Iran. Yeah, okay. Italy, Iran, Quebec. Yeah, we'll do those three.
00:05:10.220 It's like one of these things is not like the other, but anyway.
00:05:15.340 All right.
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