The shadow of ᴉuᴉlossnW: Italy alarmed as students encouraged to report ‘left-wing’ teachersSTUDENTS in Italy have been urged to expose their “left-wing teachers” for the first time since ᴉuᴉlossnW’s fascist dictatorship collapsed in 1943. Last month, Student Action (Azione Studentesca), an Italian youth association linked to Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, encouraged high school students aged between 14 and 19 to profile and denounce their teachers who supposedly espoused left-leaning ideas. Questions like, “Do you have at least one left-wing teacher who is making political propaganda during their lessons?” and, “Describe one of the most emblematic cases [of left-wing propaganda],” were part of a six-question survey that Student Action administered to teenagers in schools. While the government and the Ministry of Education defined the right-wing students’ group as a harmless initiative, hundreds have spoken out against it. A total of 305 teenagers, schoolteachers and school staff signed a public statement to oppose the discriminatory action. It comes amid a series of “self-denouncing videos” published online by hundreds of “left-wing schoolteachers,” after a 35-year-old Venetian schoolteacher, Giorgio Peloso Zantaforni, started the trend.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/shadow-ᴉuᴉlossnW-italy-alarmed-students-encouraged-report-left-wing-teachers On tirades against China, silence towards the US(Communist Party of the Philippines) The past few days saw an intense word war erupting between certain politicians and Philippine government officials and a Chinese embassy officer. This word war was ignited by Commodore Jay Tarriela, spokesperson of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for the West Philippine Sea, who made use of mock images that ridiculed Chinese leader Xi Jinping, provoking a strong reaction from Chinese officials. Guo Wei, deputy spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in Manila, questioned whether Tarriela, a uniformed officer of the Philippine government, is allowed to attack a foreign leader, and whether this is representative of Philippine diplomatic policy. The Chinese official denounced Tarriela for political provocation and violation of China’s political dignity, and, stepping on the bound
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