“Seen” on sale with attachment jokes about gays. Controversy and … – The Daily

In the newsstands with a book of jokes about gays. Controversy erupts on the weekly Visa . To light the fuse is a message posted on Twitter , with the photo of the booklet ‘The best jokes about gays’ annexed to the weekly, published today by Prs that detected by RCS. Immediate protests on the web. But Frederick Silvestri , and to the Director-General of Prs, the sender sends the controversy: “I defend and vindicate the choice to attach to views works of jokes on various issues, including gays, which is not are no longer a taboo subject. To discriminate, rather, it is those who think the opposite. “

On the initiative is branded Twitter, among other things, as an example of” only squalor “or set of” lousy clichés hetero fashionable in 50s. ” E Change.org part of the petition to ask the director of Visa, Roberto Alessi , an apology: “We believe and work for the rights of all should be respected – it says – from right to respect. Newsrooms should rebel against similar initiatives. “

” I am following with great surprise the fit of this controversy – replica Silvestri, interviewed by ANSA – absolutely contrived and out of place. Meanwhile, you should know that, compared with a circulation of 350 thousand copies, we decided to combine a 50 thousand copies ten titles on the themes of jokes ‘classic’, by Peter to the police the sport, each attached to about 5 thousand copies. I wonder then why there is indignant for gays and not to the police or the betrayed wives. Strongly reject the controversy, indeed address those who mounts is they who discriminate. It would be bleak enter certain subjects and not others or joke about sensitive topics such as death, war, tragedies. The satire has no boundaries. “

Silvestri also claims that Visto” was one of the few newspapers to give a voice to those who defend a certain type of rights and battles, as Vladimir Luxuria, host of the weekly many times , the last of which when she was attacked for his fight against drug dealing. ” For a different tenor reaction of the director of the weekly, interviewed by Sky TG24 said he was totally unaware that the “package” would include the attachment editorial about homosexuals.

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