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Stinky finger
It was the Green Party member Sigrid Maurer who posted a picture in 2017, when her party was kicked out of the National Council, in which she gave her critics the so-called "stinky finger". The outrage at the time has long been forgotten. These days, however, people are outraged by a different hand gesture, namely the one shown triumphantly by Turkish goal scorer Demiral during the European Championship match against Austria: the so-called "wolf salute".
ON THE ONE HAND, we know that signs used by extremist groups have been banned in our country for some time. And this includes the Turkish "Grey Wolves" and their "salute".
ON THE OTHER hand, political correctness and the increasingly excessive regulatory mania associated with it, with its regulations and bans, seems to be slowly taking on bizarre forms: Absolutely legitimately, the graphic symbols of totalitarian systems of the past are banned. However, there are now words and phrases, such as the "N-word", which used to appear in the dictionary without hesitation, but which may now only be used in cases of complete social ostracism. And now hand signals have also entered the ban zone.
In the past, a spread ring finger and little finger meant "cornuto", i.e. "horned one", a serious insult for Italians. And rude contemporaries would give you the bird, or the "stinky finger". Extremely indelicate, but by no means a cause for political uproar.
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