Peppa Pig, because she ended up at the center of the election campaign

Also Peppa Pig she was not spared from the campaign for the political elections on 25 September. To trigger the controversy over the cartoon were the far-right partieswho asked for the removal of some episodes from the Rai schedule, due to the presence of a homogenitorial family within the new episodes. A request that recalls the Hungarian law against the lgbtq + community, declared contrary to human rights by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe in December 2021.

“I live with my mum and my other mum. One mother is a doctor, the other cooks spaghetti. And I love spaghetti”Says one character. For this simple sentence, which tells a simple one reality experienced by millions of people in different countries, Brothers of Italy she climbed the barricades claiming it was “gender indoctrination“. Something that, unlike homogenitorial families, does not existbut it was invented by US conservative movements to discredit the LGBTQ + community.

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The attack of the Brothers of Italy

The head of the culture of the Brothers of Italy, Federico Mollicone, has lashed out against the British animators Mark Baker and Neville Astley, creators of Peppa Pig. which he defined, in a statement reported by Adnkronos, “the choice of the authors is unacceptable illustration of inserting a character with two moms. Once again, the politically correct has struck and our children are at the expense of it. But can’t children just be children? As Giorgia Meloni recently demonstrated, we are and will always be at the forefront against discrimination, but we cannot accept gender indoctrination“.

The deputy, who on Twitter it defines itself “Communicator, almost philosopher, creative”he then increased the dose by asking the Raiwho bought the rights to the cartoon “With the canon of all Italians, of do not broadcast the episode in questionon any channel or web platform “. Nothing but a request for censorshipmotivated by the fact that “All the Italians” they pay the fee, without taking into consideration how, among those people, there may also be homosexual couples or homosexuals. The party led by Emma Bonino, + Europe, responded to Fratelli d’Italia with a post in support of Peppa Pig.

Mollicone’s request recalls the Hungarian law wanted by the conservative party of Viktor Orban, which prohibits the dissemination of advertisements, messages of solidarity or representations of the LGBTQ + community on televisions, newspapers or public posters. As well as the ban on disseminating any type of information material on sexual orientation or gender identity in schools. Law fstrongly contested by all the European institutions and which led the European Commission to activate the conditionality mechanism: a procedure that allows suspend payments of European funds directed to a state, when it violates the rule of law.