It was certainly not an easy week for the feel-gooders of our house. Before Malika Chalhy and then Imen Jane they have crumbled their narrative of the unconditional integration that leads to success and a happy ending. The two girls have one factor in common: they made fun of the Italians. In different ways and with different results, but they both told a lie and we, indeed they, the gullible, took the bait.
We start from Malika. In April the social media and the media lined up “on the right side” spent words on perole for this very young girl, thrown out of the house because she was a lesbian. An abomination in front of which, rightly, we are all indignant. It will be discovered only after a few days that his family is Muslim. Why was it omitted in an early version of the story? Nothing would have changed in the judgment of the facts but it would have helped to contextualize. For Malika a game of solidarity unparalleled that has brought over 140 thousand euros in his pockets. A large sum resulting from two fundraisers. “Helping my cousin rebuild her future“, reads the header of one of the two.
Put like this, in the light of the facts, one thinks: “Poor thing, she will need a house. Maybe she wants to study. She needs support.” And in fact, many donate to help Malika rebuild a future. Donate also those who, perhaps, would have the same need for help as you but are not lucky enough to have a story media. Because that’s how it works in Italy, there are stories that draw more than others because the theme is Instagrammable and then it is ridden by influencers eager for consensus, who make it go viral. In unsuspecting times there were already those who saw something unclear in all this.
The fundraiser reaches 140 thousand euros, Malika becomes a flag of the movimento Lgbtq+ and in her profile the post of thanks to the hotels, the photos of the television appearances and those surrounded by journalists, who are so “so famous”, begin to appear. Then it turns out, thanks to Selvaggia Lucarelli, that that fundraiser helped the girl to buy a Mercedes and a purebred dog. Which one says: “With so many cars, really a luxury car?”. And oh well, he says it was “a whim“. She is young and bold, as she says.”he didn’t point the gun at his head“to anyone to donate. That it is morally obliged to update those who contributed to the fundraising created with the aim of” rebuilding a future “is another matter.
But the dog? Why buy a french bulldog on a kennel, when kennels overflow with abandoned dogs? “I liked the race, do I have to justify myself because I spend my money how I want?“, she replied. And this says more than buying a Mercedes can say. Because she herself knows what it means to feel rejected and abandoned, with the difference that Malika someone ready to save her (not only metaphorically given the 140 thousand euros collected) found it. In this way she could repay the good received with a symbolic gesture. Instead she lost the opportunity. But perhaps for her dogs have another meaning and the bulldog was probably chosen because it likes social. “The dog is a basic necessity“, he told Lucarelli. Good, understand? As if it were an object.
Now, all those who have spent their time on her, who have used her story as a flywheel for their propaganda, why don’t they dissociate themselves? Where is it Alessandro Zan? Yet Malika’s brother had warned us well from his sister in unsuspecting times. Interviewed a The mosquito shortly after the case broke, Samir said: “Two days after coming out he called Le Iene and took them to my father’s workplace, put fuel on the fire, didn’t give my parents time to assimilate it.“. It’s still: “She organized the fundraiser before she put on the video, she did it all for money. He betrayed his family for money ““. A The nation, therefore, he said that in 2019 his sister auditioned for Men and Women
In this horrible week for the do-gooders there is also the new case of Imen Jane, the girl of Moroccan origin who for years passed off as economist until it was discovered that he didn’t even have a degree. He collaborated with the ministries, he participated in international meetings boasting a non-existent title and the Italians, always the usual boccaloni, believed in it.
Time passes, the phenomenon deflates and Imen is lost for a few months. Only his bubble, the circle of his contacts still remembers his existence. Then he goes to Palermo for an environmental event in the company of some colleagues and here, just in the week in which the do-gooders find themselves naked in front of the Malika case, Imen returns to the limelight for having brought out her classism and its typically radical chic arrogance.
Together with her friend she laughed at one shop assistant who was unaware of the history of the place where he works. “They pay me too little to do that too“, the saleswoman would have said to Imen and the other girl. The poor woman therefore found herself at the center of an erudite disquisition on the lack of desire to make young people, who earn little because they are not enterprising. The little lesson of the two Milanese on vacation at the Palermo did not like it, also because being told to study by someone who built her character on a vaunted degree and never achieved well, it’s funny.
If we add to this the low-level provincialism on the part of the two girls who, feeling superior, used the “Milanese English” in addressing the hotel staff who welcomed them, with lots of smiles, it goes without saying that the two perfectly embody the way of being gods radical chic. With the difference that most, cunningly, avoid exposing themselves in this way.
From these two stories one could probably draw a moral, which is moreover quite evident. But it is certainly not up to us to reveal it. Maybe, however, we Italians could learn to be a little smarter to catch the smell of the rip off, before this gets under our noses. We could thus avoid setting up a symbol who does not deserve it, just because they are the kind of characters that work for the feel-good storytelling. And we could avoid barbine figures, like the one we are doing with the Malika case, which also ended up in the Argentine press.
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