FURIO RADIN VERSUS ISTRIAN-ITALIAN COMMUNITTY

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S COMMENT How Furio Radin became an intolerant, primitive Balkan sexist 24.08.2020 06:03 | Author: Robert FRANK Furio Radin (Dusko MARUSIC CICI) Furio Radin is a seemingly fine man, a solidly educated psychologist, a generally moderate politician without extremism of any kind, unobtrusive, sometimes timid in public controversies when he happens to be less prepared, but compensates for this with mild charm. For the final and positive impression of it, as well as for the gift in cellophane, all you need is a red braided bow and the package is really nice. THE TEXT CONTINUES AFTER THE AD Sponsored content Take advantage of Happy Hours opportunity and order your favorite TopShop products with discounts on total purchases! Midas - Native Internet Advertising Furio Radin, the eternal member of parliament, the methuselah of that high house, the vice-president of the Croatian Parliament for the second term in a row, is an important political figure in a ceremonial state like ours. The solid privileges that go along with this function ensure a comfortable life for him. To him it is important, very important, more important than one might even think. But, well, the man fought for it and he has the right to do so, regardless of the fact that he climbed to the top of the pyramid of power with less than 1000 votes and regardless of the fact that the Italian national minority votes for him blind to healthy eyes. Namely, what to say but just that for a few thousand Croatian citizens of Italian nationality who obviously do not see that for their political and mental health it might be good for someone else to represent them at least occasionally, instead of the already predictable and furious Furio Radino. The brilliance of his career and the cult of his character and work, carefully constructed from the early 90's until now, ten days ago was tainted by a half-affair, half-scandal, half-story about knowing, knowing, that, say, suspiciously silenced alleged embezzlement with the annual payment of the Republic of Italy to the account of the Italian Union in Croatia. Italian La Repubblica journalist Floriana Buflon sharply attacked both him and Italian Union President Maurizio Tremula. The list of their alleged sins is embarrassing and long, but it is not clear which of them is true, which is (semi) true, which is insinuation, which is real proof, and which is a lie. But it doesn't matter at all whether Furio Radin is guilty or innocent, whether he knows who he is and whether someone stole money at all or not. It's a hundred times more important that as a man who constantly calls for peace and tolerance, respect for others and different, allowed an outburst marked by complete intolerance. Although he has so far been perceived as almost harmless and harmless, one could even say a well-meaning, and thus unusual, unusual and rare politician whose voice of moderation and reason often calls for tolerance, Janus dropped out with two faces leading two different policies. One of Radin's faces is polite and affectionate, while the other, it turned out, is half-wild. Because the media, including Glas Istre, decided to deal with the topic from La Repubblica and the alleged embezzlement, Radin subdued so that only the excess of malignant people could justify the abominations he uttered. His sentence, published in public, "that he should shoot that thing for the journalist of Glas Istre and La Repubblica, as well as for the Italian consul", who, for the sake of explanation, each from his position gently asked him what was disputable with that Italian money, should would enter the anthology of Croatian political insolence. That sentence is an expression of Radin's sexism, rudeness and primitivism. Fortunately for him, society as Croatian is hypocritical. If a right-winger from the Parliament had said that, various associations would have stood up, and "that Ustasha" who attacks women with sexism would have put on a few more labels and his mouth would have been shut. Deservedly. This is how Furio Radin said that "let that thing shoot at him", so, come on, it's not so scary, he didn't think so! Realistically, by announcing "that thing is shooting at him", he showed intolerance of tolerance. He showed that he did not tolerate different opinions and did not tolerate embarrassing questions. He showed that a little Balkan man or a Balkan spirit was crouching in him. Maybe Furio from the Balkans, but not the Balkans from him! The Balkans have more meaning in this context, than that Furio, simplified, like all of us, was born and lives on this cruel, bloody, war-torn Balkans every couple of decades, to the point of behaving like a Balkan man, which in the freest translation and common opinion would mean that someone is a cheap primitive, he is dishonest, sludge for his own gain wherever he goes. The interpretation could, therefore, go in that direction, certainly unfavorable for the Vice-President of Parliament. Radin showed something else - that he does not want to answer questions that throw him out of the zone of life-political comfort for which he fought. He would rather work 30 years in Parliament, take a preferential pension and go down in history as a cowboy who is accompanied by a beloved lady in the twilight with a white handkerchief and a sob. Well, it can't be that way, Mr. Furio! The public has a right to know, and the media as its extended arm must question, although this can be disastrous for them when they catch too much. A living example of this is one of the bards of American television journalism, Dan Rathel. The CBS television network he worked for investigated U.S. President George W. Bush. Their thesis was that President Bush at one time, for which they had certain documents, avoided recruitment for the Vietnam War. Dan Rathel announced this despite the fact that journalistic research was targeted with a label of controversy in order to relativize the discovery. Because of that, he had to leave CBS under pressure, which automatically sealed his great career. Leaving with style and speech that enters the bloodstream of every conscientious, responsible and honest journalist, he scored with only 11 words - "every time American journalists stop asking questions, American society loses." That sentence summarizes all the philosophy and all the simple complexity of the relationship between journalists and politicians. The former are there to ask, the latter to answer. He who does not understand this has no help. Cheers, Furio! And yes, we don't shoot that thing for you. Your political career is proof of the tolerance of the majority towards the minority. That's the way it should be. Despite your intolerance.