Peppa Pig, the beloved cartoon pig fashionable with youngsters, has discovered a robust enemy within the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) occasion.
The controversy revolves round a just lately aired episode of the British youngsters’s present that introduces a polar bear named Penny with same-sex parents.
“The decision of the authors of the cartoon to include a character with two mothers is unacceptable” said FdI’s tradition spokesperson Federico Mollicone. “Political correctness strikes once again, and it’s our children who pay for it.”
Mollicone, who additionally sits on the parliament’s broadcasting fee, known as on Italy’s nationwide broadcaster to not air the episode.
The name was picked up by different members of the occasion, which is the front-runner within the nation’s upcoming elections.
Isabella Rauti, senator and FdI spokesperson for equal rights, said she hoped that the nationwide broadcaster didn’t “act as a megaphone for controversial ideologies.” And FdI co-founder Fabio Rampelli, vice chairman of Italy’s decrease home, said that the issue wasn’t Peppa Pig however the “indoctrination of children, online and through cartoons.”
The animated pig, as soon as described by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as trying “like a hairdryer,” isn’t with out its defenders in Italy.
Nicola Fratoianni of the Italian Left occasion said that LGBT households “exist and are part of our everyday life. To hide that fact means not living in this world.”
“A new enemy besieges the nation: @peppapig,” joked Democratic Party parliamentarian Alessandro Zan.
