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| How I became public enemy No. 1 in Poland |
| 2018-01-29 |
| [Jpost] I am, apparently, an enemy of the Polish people. I am a prime example of that treacherous lying Jewish media with its tentacles wrapped around the earth, or something not-at-all-antisemitic like that. I am the reason Jews are killed and thrown out of every country they try to live in around the world. I am to blame for the Holocaust, and it’s too bad I was born. I am also a c*** and a bitch who’s asking to be raped, and who deserves to be sent photos of strangers’ genitals. And I’m stupid. Oh so stupid. A real idiot who’s never read a book. Or so thousands of Polish people told me on social media since Saturday night. Even Poland’s Deputy Minister of Justice Patryk Jaki piled on, labeling me "Israeli media" ‐ at least that one is true ‐ and telling his followers to come after me. All because of one tweet. One tweet in which I wrote the phrase "Polish death camps" 14 times. Now, I know that Poles, and Ukrainians, and Baltics are practically heroes to Americans for their "brave resistance" to Russia. However, to paraphrase your Al Smith: "lets not forget the record" - especially as it reinforced by current behavior. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Bravo! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-29 20:41 |
| #3 A Polack whose old sod was Hrodno, A hellhole beloved of God... oh, And also of Prussians, Balts, various Russians... "Go back for a visit? Good lawd, no!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-01-29 20:22 |
| #2 "It outlaws any mention of Polish complicity in the Nazi atrocities" And that's the problem, not only in Poland, but also in France and other countries occupied by the Nazis. The Holocaust would have been impossible (or at least would have claimed a lot less lives) without complicity. You can't blame someone for not being a hero. But nobody in an occupied country was ever forced to denounce a Jew, to be a guardian in a camp, to benefit from persecution. Which, of course, is also true for Germany. In 1933 Germany was probably less antisemitic than Poland. Even in 1938 most Germans were probably not rabid Antisemites (just miserable Antisemites). But it was oh so convenient to be one. Your neighbor is Jewish? Why not denounce him and get his apartment at a bargain price? And so on. This is what Germany and all the other nations never wanted to acknowledge. It's a lot easier to blame Hitler, the SS and the upper echelons of Nazis. But after 1945 few people wanted to question their own responsibility. A few days ago, Esther Béjarano, a 93yo survivor of Auschwitz (she played the accordion in the Girls' Orchestra of Auschwitz) had a few powerful words to say to the young people in the audience. "You are not guilty, not responsible for the Nazi crimes. But if you ignore them, if you don't teach others, you become responsible." |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-01-29 20:19 |
| #1 After that tweet the op-ed is surprisingly nuanced. Well worth the read. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-29 05:40 |