From Spadolini in Boschi: satire and naked power – The Republic

Anyone who is very offended by Riccardo Mannelli sticker against the minister on Woods Done newspaper yesterday could recalibrate his own judgment having memory of those male bodies were used, also very rudely, by the past decades satirical. Andreotti’s hump, the tiny pea Spadolini, the Natta desnudo Tango (Unity insert, and Natta was the secretary of the Communist Party), even Berlinguer in Forattini robe, depicted as a contemptuous and decadent omarino.

it was sexism that too? Or, more simply, if the emperor has no clothes, and has been for a bit ‘of centuries, sooner or later also touches to the queen, because equal opportunity, unfortunately, are equal drawbacks? Marinelli is an excellent draftsman, in the deformation “to Bacon” of the human physiognomy has always been fair-minded, male and female, bodies of power and not power. More than vulgar is sometimes excruciatingly hostile to the human race, and the only real complaint which can be moved to a newspaper is to be a medium too “generalist” to withstand the impact of a well. The rest of the discussion is frankly too subjective to make furious and struts statements to news agencies, a literary genre that deserves, among other things, criticized much more pointy than they attract the cartoonists.

The politically correct is a valuable bulwark against the drift of public language; but if it becomes an obsession or a cast of censorship, the effect is counterproductive. If you define “chubby” three athletes blue brave and strong (a coarseness, a misplaced joke, not a crime) costs dismissal, it should cost to publish false news, or certain to trash file, or program and operate disgraced in command, as illustrious directors have no other consequence than a shrug? And if the thighs of a minister become the subject of a play on words rather stupid, that takes a lot to an excellent design, said it is normal and legitimate to say “what an ugly cartoon” as happen to say “that ugly article” or “that bad bill “, then after that what you should do, set up a
Official Screening of good taste?

There is an inexhaustible reason of contention between satire and politics. It is reasonable to take offense, and are unbearable pretensions satirical caste can say everything about all without ever paying a pledge: for remediable contentious enough time to heal, those irremediable there are the courts, the game, in civilized communities, is this . Not part of the game, however, claim that the satire stop being, if she happens to be, even unpleasant, and do it in the name of “political correctness” that should be appointed only when necessary, not to make worn and unusable. The minister Woods pays tribute to her beauty, almost never mentioned about it to clear space when you are on the stage of power. Also he happened to males: the comely Mrs Casini was taken for a ride by repeatedly Blacks Marcorè (and on public television, too) as a seducer of hacks electrical. A ganimede no ideas but very well combed. It was not true, though: it was satire. Also not true that Woods has made wide for aesthetic merits: it is satire.

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