Bieganski
27 Jun 2016
UK, Ireland / London's POSK smeared with anti-Polish grafitti [150]
I think your wife is correct. I've seen very elaborate graffiti as well as simple scrawls that indicated someone was in a hurry but still showed a skill that had been practiced over quite some time. Someone who had never done graffiti before and with adrenaline rushing could easily have gauged everything wrong and run out of space while they were spraying the lettering across the entrance of POSK. With the obscenity written in English it was obviously done by someone who doesn't know Polish but wanted to intimidate the local community further knowing it would very likely get media attention inside the UK.
No one can seriously believe that a tagger (usually of a very young age group) would also be intimately involved with internal Polish politics a thousand miles away and just so happen to know the initials for an obscure conservative think thank that they felt the need to lash out against. However, a young tagger would very likely have very strong emotions about seeing his or her country changed by immigration and not having the maturity to deal with it other than through angry acts of vandalism. A Polish community center easily accessible to the public was simply an easy target.
Case closed.
That's exactly what my wife said when she saw the writing, graffiti style., I didn't recognize the writing as Polish.
I think your wife is correct. I've seen very elaborate graffiti as well as simple scrawls that indicated someone was in a hurry but still showed a skill that had been practiced over quite some time. Someone who had never done graffiti before and with adrenaline rushing could easily have gauged everything wrong and run out of space while they were spraying the lettering across the entrance of POSK. With the obscenity written in English it was obviously done by someone who doesn't know Polish but wanted to intimidate the local community further knowing it would very likely get media attention inside the UK.
No one can seriously believe that a tagger (usually of a very young age group) would also be intimately involved with internal Polish politics a thousand miles away and just so happen to know the initials for an obscure conservative think thank that they felt the need to lash out against. However, a young tagger would very likely have very strong emotions about seeing his or her country changed by immigration and not having the maturity to deal with it other than through angry acts of vandalism. A Polish community center easily accessible to the public was simply an easy target.
Case closed.