The possible broadcast on public television of a cartoon episode in which a lesbian couple appears who rebel against the right-wing parties
‘Peppa Pig’ has secured a place in the Italian election campaign. The famous piggy, the protagonist of some cartoons that are all the rage among children under the age of five, is suffering firsthand from the polarization that is prevalent in Italy in the run-up to the general elections to be held on the 25th of this month. The UK broadcast of a chapter in which Penny Polar Bear, a character who is friends with Peppa Pig, tells her that she has two mothers has sparked pre-emptive controversy in Italy over the possibility that it could also be seen in the ‘Rai’, the public television company that offers these cartoons on one of its children’s channels. The Italian legislation is one of the most restrictive in Western Europe with homosexual couples: only civil unions between people of the same sex and not marriage are allowed and, in addition, adoption or the use of assisted reproductive techniques is prohibited.
“It is unacceptable that the authors of ‘Peppa Pig’ put a character with two mothers. Once again political correctness hits us and now our children have to pay. We are against discrimination, but we cannot accept gender indoctrination,” said Federico Mollicone, head of the cultural space of the Brothers of Italy (HdI), the far-right party leading the polls ahead of the upcoming elections. With a nearly 25% vote intent, his candidate, Giorgia Meloni, has everything in her face to lead the next government, accompanied by her conservative bloc allies Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s party Forza Italia.
Mollicone’s criticism, who has warned “Rai” not to broadcast “on any channel or web platform” the chapter in which Penny Polar Bear talks about her gay family, comes after the Pro Association raised its vote Vita e Famiglia, which is the traditional concept defends of the family and attacks abortion, homosexual couples or euthanasia. This organization launched a campaign over the internet asking the ‘Rai’ not to think about broadcasting “gay cartoons” whose “LGBTQ sauce influences the minds of children and normalizes situations based on ideology of genre”.
HdI’s president himself has also intervened in the controversy over ‘Peppa Pig’, assuring that homosexuality is an issue ‘that families should address’ and that they should not ‘impose concepts that are too early to metabolize’ .
In the debate he had last Monday in a broadcast on the website ‘Corriere della Sera’ with his great rival for the elections, Enrico Letta, leader of the Democratic Party (PD, center left), Meloni made it clear that he can stand against those gay couples. adopt, because “a child who already comes from a disadvantaged situation should be offered the maximum, namely a mother and a father”. Letta replied by saying that what counts is “giving love” to children.
He has also expressed his views on the case of ‘Peppa Pig’ Berlusconi, who is trying to gain a foothold among more moderate conservative voters against Meloni’s push. For the veteran former president, it is “sad and worrying” that a cartoon “is being used to convey an ideological view of family and sexuality.” In his opinion, it is an example of a “wrong cultural climate” that tries to “condition” children.
Source: La Verdad
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