Remember this?
The story of the Miss Hitler beauty contest was covered in Daily Beast (Italy’s ‘Miss Hitler’ Among 19 Investigated for Starting New Nazi Party in Italy), the Daily Mail (“Miss Hitler beauty pageant winner 'was among 19 people arrested for trying to establish a new Nazi party in Italy'), the Italian website La Stampa (“Anche “Miss Hitler” tra chi voleva costituire un partito neonazista in Italia”) and no doubt elsewhere.
The group that held this contest aren't an Italian version of Trekkies playing with phasers. Police seized an arsenal of swords, knives, crossbows and rifles from 19 homes in their raids. These are serious modern day Nazis who want to use violence to achieve their ends.
There are similar groups in other European countries and Britain has a neo-Nazi movement called Combat 18. We already know they is an active neo-Nazi movement in the United States and with the ease of obtaining firearms here I have no doubt they are armed to the teeth. In 2018 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) tracked 1,020 hate groups here (see interactive map).
Not all American hate groups are defined as neo-Nazi. The SPLC broke out and named the ones that are. The SPLC breaks down the ideologies of American hate groups.
In 2018 the Anti-defamation League (ADL) Published a major study, “New Hate and Old: The Changing Face of American White Supremacy.”
This is their executive summary of the study.
Fast forward from then to now:
Those who are interested in the details of this story can read the stories in Daily Beast and the Daily Mail.
I was more interested in how Italians responded to the tweet La Stampa posted. La Stampa (meaning The Press in English) is an Italian Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Wikipedia
Here are some of the tweet comments translated by Google translate which is imperfect, but you get an idea. You can see the tweet thread by clicking above and translate on your own if you don’t read Italian.
This first one (when I looked) is a post of this:
This had no text:
- But beat them to these idiots. Give them a taste of what they would like to do to others.
- how strange .... with that sober and elegant tattoo.
- Those people must be given a hard lesson, so that they can disappear from their heads the crickets they have.
- When you have to take out the daily racism alarm and get into the deepest discomfort.
- this is just a poor fool full of existential problems ..... let's not give it importance
- They begin to be unbearable. Above all, the police must not underestimate them. Because now they are already dangerous. In Germany it is even worse.
- But why is it that every time these nazis are taken, one must always talk about hardship or childishness? Why don't we say they are criminals instead?
If this happened in the United States no doubt if Stephen Miller held sway with Trump he’d make sure that Miss Hitler was pardoned if she was convicted.
Hell, I don’t even know if Trump who loves his beauty pageants, would need Miller to egg him on. He might want to pardon her himself if she lets him see her tattoo up close and personal.