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As opposed to the benches that are purposely designed so you can't lie on them. You see those all over the place under the guise of modern design language.

in my city they are more magnanimous. putting unmovable barriers on the bench that makes it impossible to lie down upon.

The priest at the church my mom used to work at did the same thing with the bus stop benches an Eagle Scout built because of the same reason.

Italy literally invented fascism.

Hitler used to jerk off to pictures of Mussolini while building his movement.

My GF is Italian. That’s pretty much how she describes Italy.

"Everyone likes to think of Italy as this land of the cultured and sophisticated..."

This is no big deal and it's kinda funny, but really it just sounds like you thought that, and then were shocked when you learned otherwise lol.

Because I honestly don't know anyone who believes that. While I'm sure there are people who do, it's not this massive common misconception that you're claiming.

I can see how banning the Burkini in indoor pools makes sense from a hygienic perspective, but banning them on public beaches is just to take something enjoyable away from a specific group of people.

Municipalities in Italy have been pushing an anti-Muslim agenda since at least 9/11 as part of the right-wing identity politics agenda.

Mosques and cultural centers are seen as radicalization centers.

They know that any court would shoot down shit like this as unconstitutional, but Italian law is slow as molasses and their goal is signaling to xenophobes and racists.

That's nice, since when have fascists ever cared? I mean like in all of human history?

Who knew electing fascists would lead to fundamental freedoms of minorities being removed?

I mean, bigotry and unenforceability aside, it's also pretty unambiguously illegal.

Italy is a signatory to the ECHR which creates an explicit right to privacy (Article 8) and freedom of religion (Article 9).

The Italian constitution itself also specifies a right to religious equality before the law (Article 8).

Not defending this at all, but the ban only covers praying at "cultural centers", which I assume doesn't include people's private residences.

They truly could enforce against public Islamic worship illegal, depending on how broadly "cultural centers" is defined, and I expect fascists to define it to cover all of public life.

now come on - don't judge all Italians based on piece of shit Berlusconi and other fascists.

Lemmy has passed it's golden moment now that enough regular Redditors made if over.

a lot of islamic terror attacks in the past have made people bitter.

and i mean a lot of them

I think it just might have to do with the history of Islamic terror attacks..

Such as the London bombings and bridge attack, Charlie Hebdo attack and the more recent stabbings in France, the Madrid train bombings which killed 193 people, the November 2015 Paris attack in which 130 were murdered, the 2016 Atatürk Airport attack in Turkey which left 45 dead, the 2016 Brussels bombings, just to name a few...

I'm not suggesting that all or even most Islamic individuals are dangerous/terrorists. But there is a long, bloody history of Islamic extremism throughout Europe.

I'm also not suggesting this justifies these bans in Italy whatsoever. I share this because it's essential context to answer your question.

We don’t have black people to discriminate against, so we make do with browns after discriminating against Jews fell out of fashion.