In Salerno, Italy, on July 7th, fascist sympathizers, once again escorted and protected by police, performed the Roman salute.

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by TappetoImperiale

38 comments

  1. …as a Neapolitan: we’ve been trying to warn you about people from Salerno. They just ain’t right in the head.

  5. There’s no such thing as the Roman Salute. At least, this isn’t it.

  8. It’s the Nazi/Fascist salute… Stop calling it the Roman fucking salute

  9. I don’t know exactly, but I guess it is not forbidden in Italy, is it?

  10. this is disgusting, ban this shit at EU LEVEL. FIGHT FASCISM of ANY color

  13. They are not fans of Augustus or Nero. They are fucking fascists and racists and they should be treated the way fascists and racists should be treated.

  14. Not even in the same direction. Fitting for the ideology of losers

  19. I remember the last pictures of Mussolini, I think they need an history book for dummies.

  20. Spoiler alert: this does in fact resemble the beginnings of the real growth of the German Nazi party.

    It feels like nobody is doing anything to curtail this kind of online radicalization of young men. Why?

  21. Too many people in these comments think they know the origin of this salute better than an Italian.

  22. Maybe they are trying to go somewhere and they are calling for a taxi ..

  24. A bit of context by a local:

    Basically they have this annual meeting to commemorate a university student killed in the ’72, Carlo Falvella, by left extremist. In the picture one can’t see it, but they are near a tombstone/monument in his honour.

    For an introductory a general understanding of italian political terrorism in those days, of which Carlo Falvella’s death is an episode: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy))

  26. I mean it is shit, and fascists tend to be pretty big arseholes and the ideology as a whole is also pure shit.

    But, by writing “once again escorted and protected by police” it sounds you disagree with this?

    In a democracy, we tend to allow shitty opinions and political expressions, granted that it is non-violent and does not damage private or public property.

    So, do you mean that they should be unprotected and be allowed to be beaten up, or be denied their (by the looks of it) peaceful gathering?

  27. I don’t understand all these comments against calling the gesture the ‘Roman salute’; that’s what we call it in Italy. It’s not that we call it that because we don’t want to be associated with Nazis, but simply because that’s the name Mussolini used, and it has stuck since then. I don’t understand the controversy.

  28. “That’s right, I’m here in Salerno, Italy where some poorly educated scumbags decided to celebrate the collective forgetting of their own history, by saluting thin air while looking like a bunch of gormless, fascist twats.. We’ll have more on this story as it develops..”

  29. I’m nearly more upset by seeing so many foreigners ignoring the background in Italy of such salute and trying to dictate how Italians are supposed to call a symbol that, regrettably, they invented, used and exported and therefore have the right to call how it has always been called before, during and after fascism.

    Like it or not, it’s called Roman salute in Italy as a standard and as a synonim of fascist salute, knowing full well the only Romanity in it are Mussolini’s delusions of grandeur. Open a book rather than repeating angrily “it’s the Hitler salute!!!”, Fascism is supposed to be fought through superior culture and knowledge of history

  30. Good. I’d rather they show their faces in the open and show everyone their beliefs so they can be confronted. That’s their right and it takes balls to be this stupid.
    This is democracy.

  31. Despite what many commenters claim, calling it the Roman salute isn’t wrong in the Italian context. Italians know it has nothing to do with ancient Rome but Fascism. Its not that deep and OP isn’t a bot trying to legitimize anything.

  33. This is the nazi salute. This is not a roman salute. There is no historical evidence that the romans ever did this. Mislabling this as “the roman salute” just gives them deniability. They are nazis.

  35. Btw this is not a roman salute and a purely fascist symbol.

    The idea that it is a roman salute itself comes from an Italian fascist propaganda movie about the roman empire from about the 1920’s.

    Don’t let anyone get away saying they’re just displaying roman culture, hell nah.

  37. Roman salute cleans it off modern atrocities, they are doing Nazi salute

  38. What Roman salute? There isnt such thing, this is a fucking nazi/fascist salute.

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