Another gaffe by Bonisoli: migrants like exotic plants: they risk infestation. Furfaro (LeU): he is an imbecile

At a meeting held in Palermo, the minister of cultural heritage, Alberto Bonisoli, collected a new gaffe, launching himself into a reckless metaphor with which he compared migrants to exotic species that “risk infestation” if their acclimatization is not properly regulated. These are the minister’s words, “I liked this metaphor of plants coming from outside than from Sicily. Keep in mind, however, that when a plant comes from outside it needs time to acclimatize. Probably in our country this acclimatization space has not been enough, and we have situations of discomfort, of fear in the cities, in the territory, of people who have not yet understood the change that is happening and who have not yet understood how the change can be dealt with. [...] Culture can be a way to facilitate, to accelerate, this mode of acclimatization. Keep in mind that when these species arrive from outside, if there is not an artificial process that regulates, that organizes this acclimatization a species becomes a pest: it means that at this point there are negative effects that are not necessarily the ones that should have been sought. We, on the other hand, want that through diversity, which is a richness, we come to another richness, which is the growth of the social fabric and the quality of life. [...] Culture can be one of the elements that can help this process.”

Beyond the scientific inaccuracy of the comparison (if anything, an exotic species is at risk of becoming a pest precisely when it manages to acclimatize), the comparison between migrants and weeds has aroused outrage from several political figures. Marco Furfaro (Liberi e Uguali), speaking on the program Tagadà on La7 did not mince words in referring to Minister Bonisoli: “he is an imbecile. We come from a history in which we were pests. Beyond the political judgment of right or left, there are words that an institution should not allow itself.” Vanna Iori (Pd), on the other hand, commented, “comparing, as Bonisoli did, migrants to pest species that need to acclimatize, offers the figure of the cultural and moral decay we are going through.” Luca Bizzarri, president of Palazzo Ducale, while stressing that the concept of culture growing differences is not wrong, points out the gaffe with his usual irony: “the concept is not wrong at all, considering culture as a ground where differences can grow together, all right. Good Minister. But then the troglodyte rises to him, like the old healthy carrion. And he throws it all down the drain. And there all he needed was a friend, one who ’come on, weeds don’t say that.’ But no.”

Another gaffe by Bonisoli: migrants like exotic plants: they risk infestation. Furfaro (LeU): he is an imbecile

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