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trener zolwia   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Jazz in Poland [27]

The name has led to the dance's origin being sometimes mistakenly attributed to Poland.

Aw, man, now my image of every Pole dressed in old-time Polish garb and playing an accordion while dancing around has been ruined. Damn reality... :(
trener zolwia   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Jazz in Poland [27]

Then why isn't it called Czechka?
trener zolwia   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Jazz in Poland [27]

it's not uniquely Polish at all and never really was.

Something called Polka isn't really Polish??
trener zolwia   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Jazz in Poland [27]

I thought Polka was.
trener zolwia   
2 Oct 2010
Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]

Seems to me a vasectomy is the ultimate privacy rights issue vs. state intrusion.
If someone is finished having kids, or doesn't want any at all, and there is medical technology available that can safely and effectively do this, then who is the state to say they can't? It's their body and their life, not the state's...
trener zolwia   
2 Oct 2010
Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]

Only in 3 cases:

Sounds reasonable enough.

Vastectomy is rather not reversible so you possible can change your mind

Yes it is.
trener zolwia   
2 Oct 2010
Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]

Abortion on demand is also illegal.

Oh, I thought it was legal, like much of the rest of the EU. Under what circumstances is abortion permissible in P-Land?

going through life without progeny is a poor excuse for life indeed.

Hey! Watch it! :p
trener zolwia   
2 Oct 2010
Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]

you are no allowed to make yourself harm even on your own demand.

So abortion is ok (killing another) but getting a vasectomy for oneself is illegal?? Seems backwards...
trener zolwia   
30 Sep 2010
UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]

the Irish allegedly greet one another with 'The top o' the morning to ya'.

Sure. Ain't that what they say on their way to make a withdraw from their pot o' gold?
The Irish are funny... an entire country of shamrocks and drunken little people all dressed in green. Lol...
trener zolwia   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, and you are one dumb Polack" - Archie Bunker to Mike Stivic.

Of course the ultimate irony is that, when it all is said and done, the stupid libtard had it coming to him :)

LOL! True! It wasn't that he was Polish but that he was a Ltard!

Opie & Anthony and in fairness to them they generally ignored the Polish and mocked just about everyone.

Yeah, they seem to spread it pretty evenly.

Also former Senator Arlen Specter apologized for saying so called Polish jokes two years ago because both Polish Americans and Non-Polish Americans thought he was wrong in saying these anti-Polish slurs. Specter also lost BIG in Pennsylvania. No doubt Arlen Specter's anti-Polish slurs did not help him.

He's an idiot RINO who wore out his welcome. He's gone come January.

because he did not speak English very well,

It is very hard for anyone coming to a new country if they don't know the language.

at least Poland isn't as boring as US

I've never heard anyone call us "boring". We may be many things but I don't think boring is one of them.

Additionally you live among your kind not blacks or mexicans

Poles do have this going for them.

victims of white flight

No such thing. Whites were the victims of black crime and blight. That's why they flew.

i'll repeat... so what's the alternative?

Mod: Please, keep to the original topic. Thank you.

Ah-hah. PG got scolded! :p
trener zolwia   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

I think it's also important to remember a bit of history.

Good stuff, man.

Most of us have indeed moved on but there is a cottage industry that is determined to keep black historical grievance alive for their benefit today. The Left treats blacks like retarded children who ever need protection and eternal assistance. Another part of what they do is keep the past alive in the public psyche via pop culture entertainment and continual scolding about our racial past so that they can then implement their misplaced black sympathy into policy. It's dirty and divisive group politics enforced with PC is what it is.
trener zolwia   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

Kaytn joke, although any country that puts their whole cabinet on one airplane
has to be pretty stupid, dont you think??

Lol!

Americans are universally disliked around the world, a feeling shown and spoken out loud more and more, I wonder why? Don’t you?

Yeah, why is that? And while we're so cool... B)
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

in general the white guy is portrayed as a bumbling bafoon while the non-whites are kind of put on a pedestal.

Even in something as seemingly benign as a silly TV commercial for auto insurance the car stealing criminal is always portrayed as a white guy. Always. never mind that somewhere around 90% of auto thefts in this country are committed by blacks.

I have nothing against seeing Black people being portrayed positively since indeed they have a history of suffering. But Holy Cow. At least they can't complain about racism in Hollywood.

It's become full-blown reverse racism...

Also, entertainment at all levels easily toss around terms like "white trash" and "trailer trash" to mean low class whites. But you'll never hear them mention "black garbage" or "ghetto garbage" referring to low class and criminal blacks, of which there are many, many more. They make fun of rural white accents but never say anything about the rampant black ebonics, even going so far as to clean up interview quotes to make the blacks sound like they speak the Queen's English.

It's even worse than all this. The "News" Media won't report the race of a criminal when the perp is black. A foreigner coming here might think that blacks are all decent, law-abiding folks while whites are the criminals they need to fear and avoid. Never mind that our prison population is 80% black while they represent just 12% of the overall population.

I just hope its not meant to indirectly put down white people

It doesn't matter what their motives are; this twisting of reality is grossly dishonest, outright lies, calculated to manipulate perceptions. It should be criminal.

Poles got nothing to worry about here... other than the fact that they are white.

Have you ever listened to Radio talk show Host Michael Savage?

I don't really do talk radio but I know what they're all about.
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

TV imagery both good and bad is very powerful on the human mind in shaping people's opinion on things.

Oh, they're still conditioning the masses. Only now it's not so much anti-Polish in the news, commercials, TV shows and movies. Now the narrative is that being black or Mexican or gay or a single parent is good, while being American, white, straight, Christian, suburban, successful, married... is bad. The while male is always portrayed as the criminal or the bumbling idiot while the wise and successful minority is the good guy who saves the day.

They are attempting to create false stereotypes as none of this accurately reflects society.

And guess who is behind all this manipulative dishonesty? Yep, the dirty Liberals who control our news and entertainment industries.
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

There are more important issues at stake for Polish-Americans and Poland than Polish jokes.

Yes, yes. Obama and his fellow Radical Leftists running our country right now are much more of a threat to P-Land (and Israel) than a few silly jokes.
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

For the sake of scholarly disucssion (no racialism intended) they tagreted Pollacks, Bohunks, Hungies, Ukies, *******, Kikes, Krauts, Frogs, Spics (Mexicans), Micks, Wops, Dago, Japs, Chinks and other assorted slit-eyes, Scandihoovians, Canucks (Canadians), etc., etc.

Lol. True, we do tend to bash everyone equally.
But even so, it's a bit of a stretch to consider silly jokes as proof of underlying hatred.

* The moderator's asterisks (*******) have replaced the N-word.

Notice how our biased PC (here on PF as in our real world) only protects blacks while everyone else is fair game.
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

I have noticed that the conservative American media like Talk Radio has been relatively fair to Polish people and from time to time has been nice to Polish people.

Yep! The Righties are mostly fair and nice about Poles and other groups in general. We're cool like that. B)
trener zolwia   
29 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

many Americans didn't even know about Chicago's big Polish community..

I might have learned about this here.

Polish jokes are rare in the US now.

For some Americans, exposure to Poles is the 'Dumb Polack' joke.

Haven't heard onea them in years.
trener zolwia   
28 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

I never heard anything about Poles in the media when I lived in the states. I don't think the majority of Americans care about Poles one way or another.

I agree. I never hear much about Poles one way or the other. Unless OP has a particular recent incident in mind...
trener zolwia   
28 Sep 2010
History / Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]

compare the manipulative styling of the article with the actual explanation of why Irving praised Hitler, then it looks a bit different.

witch-hunt approach.

True. With all the buzz surrounding this guy, I suspect they'd just been waiting for him to give his first tour so they could pounce with the story. Just about anything he said would have been played up...

Nite.

G'night, N.
trener zolwia   
28 Sep 2010
History / Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]

And some are being created by the sources.

Oh, I get what you mean. Me, I am a big sceptic /critic of our Lying Liberal Media over here. Sure they can spin and slant stories and accounts, and they often do. But basic facts and things like his quotes they cite are probably accurate...