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Comment by stephc_int13

8 hours ago

Of course, but this lineage should indeed encourage some scrutiny.

Especially as multiple people in his family have had fascist sympathies.

Given his ancestry wearing a black shirt for a TV interview was pretty bad judgement.

  • If it quacks like a duck...?

    • To an extent, but with caution and charity. A lot of exceptionally good people have come from bad families - one of the Borgias was a saint, for example. A lot of exceptionally nasty people seem to have perfectly nice families.

      Of course sometimes people who are, for example, brought up to be racist, are racist.