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MediaWatch   
29 Aug 2010
Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

BookOwl you are 100% correct.

We keep on hearing from our media how diversity is a good thing. Well aren't Polish Americans part of all the diverse ethnic groups in America? Shouldn't we be recognized for the good we have contributed to this great country and not ridiculed or dismissed just because there were some bigots in the media who were prejudiced against Polish people who were trying to condition the American public to have their anti-Polish prejudice with their Anti-Polish propaganda?

It was Hollywood's and the TV networks' shame to try to condition the American public from 1965 through the 70's with subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people. It still continued after that..... but to a lesser degree.... only because Polish Americans finally had enough of being a "good sport" about being an ethnic punching bag and finally spoke out against all these anti-Polish slurs.

Although sadly subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people still do exist, at least they are not in the mainstream media like they used to be. Maybe once in a while you might hear them and you basically won't hear them in polite society. This is why the anti-Polish Bigot former Senator Arlen Spector apologized when he made some anti-Polish jokes in New York City a couple years ago. Even Non-Polish people were offended at his so called jokes about Polish people. Some people say Arlen Specter lossed more then a normal amount to his unknown challenger earlier this year because of his racist so called Polish "jokes". There is a large Polish American population in his state of Pennsylvania who didn't forget his dumb inferior intelligence "jokes" against Polish people.

But it is good he apologized for his hate-through-humor jokes against Polish people. I give him credit for that.

nbcphiladelphia.com/news/archive/Specter-Apologizes-for-Polish-Comments.html
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

You are right ender.

Poles like you and me, who MareGaea criticizes "for not admitting that Poles killed Jews" have said many times that there were POLES WHO DID KILL JEWS.

I have said this at least a few times during this recent topic (I have also said this in other topics) that there WERE some Bad Poles who did bad things to other people including Killing Jews.

So I don't know what his problem is and why his eyes or brain fail him when he reads Poles like you and me admitting that there were some bad Poles who did bad things to Jews. I don't know maybe he wants Poles to grovel in front of Jews like him.

My problem with him, is that he tries to push this collective guilt thing on ALL Poles for what SOME bad Poles did. When he does that, all I merely do is bring up what some bad Jews did to Poles and East Europeans and then ask him if Jews should do likewise and apologize for being collectively guilty for the bad deeds of their bad Jews that were reported by other Jewish people.

Also God forbid you try to have him acknowledge any good things the Poles have done for Jews. When you just bring that up he totally twists it around and then accuses you of "Oh so since you say Poles did some good things for Jews THEN THAT MEANS IT GIVES POLES A RIGHT TO GO AROUND KILLING JEWS????????

Only somebody with a paranoid sick one-sided hatred for Polish people would say such things
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

LOL

Didn't former Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski and many other Poles basically fall over themselves apologizing to Jews for Kielce about 9 years ago????

Oh and in case you didn't know, former Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski is HALF JEWISH. Now why would those terrible anti-semitic Poles vote for a Jewish guy to be their president?? LOL
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

All I have done is present the other side of Jewish vs Poland/Eastern Europe "information" that the mass media has suppressed. Including what some Israeli columnists and people like Winston Churchil have reported on Jewish history as far as the disproportionate Jewish participation in Communism.

Basically "The emperor has no clothes" type information on those bad people among Jews. But if you think that's "anti-semitic" just because one brings that up to give CONTEXT to Jewish vs Eastern Europe tensions then that's because you are an ethno-centric Jewish person who feels Jews should never be questioned because they are morally superior to Non-Jews. They are not. They are humans who do good and bad just like all people. You must also remember this isn't the New York Times or Washington Post ect which doesn't allow these politically incorrect facts about a certain element of Jewish history to be brought up.

I have also never said there were never any bad people among Poles. I have repeated many times Poles have their bad people, so I don't know why you don't acknowledge that. But why don't you acknowledge those bad Jews out there who have given good Jews a bad name?

There have been wonderful good Jews out there who have contributed to mankind with their Nobel prize type contributions in the sciences just like there were terrible horrible thug like Jews who participated in the Stalinist Bolshevik machine to kill and hurt others.

There is good and bad in all groups of people. Certainly Poles and Jews are no exceptions to that.
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

I already answered that question: the official estimates lie between 1000 - 1500 between May 1945 and September 1946. If you just took the time to read what I write instead of coming up with the same over and over again, you would have known.

So according to you Poles have killed 1000-1500 Jews and before that much less. That's it??? And that's only assuming the Poles controlled their own country after 1945 (which you claim) and not the Soviets, which is a new one on me. So according to you the Poles and not the Soviets controlled Poland? LOL

The way you talk about Poles you make it sound like Poles killed hundreds of thousands if not milions of Jews. LOL

Now according to that article on Stalin's Jews by an ISRAELI, Jewish communists were responsible for MILLIONS of deaths of East Europeans and Poles.

It only confirms what so many East Europeans already knew.

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Poles were shipped out of old East Polish territories to Siberian death camps thanks to Communist Jewish NKVD officers and Polish Jews collaborating with them. Frankly I'm surprised there hasn't been more anti-semitism in Poland considering the huge amount of Jewish atrocities against Poles.

I have heard from Polish relatives and friends the reverse of what Jan Gross has accused Poles of. When the Soviets were dominating old East Polish land, they were ethnically cleansing it of ethnic Poles, sending them to Gulag death camps, and then putting NKVD/Communist collaborating Jews in these homes. Maybe some Poles REACTED to this?

It looks like somebody removed that MareGaea comment about wanting to see a certain other person die here. Well I guess that's all for the better.

MareGaea your hatred is getting the best of you. The problem is in a nutshell you believe what the mass media has said about Jews vs Poles/East Europeans which has always been ONE SIDED. Now you're hearing the other side which has been suppressed by the mass media. Like what Winston Churchill said about the so called "Russian Revolution" based on what Russians reported to him.

Now MG nobody is saying all or most Jews are bad people. I'm not going to sink to your level. Only that Jews like all people have their share of bad apples just like anyone else. Many decent Jews today are against these Communist Jews. But that doesn't mean these bad Jews did not exist.
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

So what your saying is this Kielce tragedy is a little more complicated then meets the eye?

So there were some bad Poles involved with this. Who doesn't know that.

But when are you going to request of Jews that what you keep requesting of Poles? For Jews to apologize for those horrific things SOME Jews did to Poles?? When When When?

Or do you have a double standard here?

Remember Jews CHOSE to LIVE in POLAND. If Jews felt they were being mistreated in Poland they could have always left Poland. Did you forget that?

Also for the fourth time I'm asking you - How many Jews do you think Poles have killed? Is that going to be something else you are going to ignore?

I mean the concept of "Poles killing Jews" is something you are OBSESSED with so I think its odd that you don't have an answer to the simple question:

How many Jews have Poles killed? According to you.

Your silence on that simple question is quite interesting. Hmmmm
MediaWatch   
20 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

And for your information: I do understand perfectly.

Are you smart enough to know that even if some Poles were involved in it, Polish nationalists did NOT control large events like this and that the Soviets did? Did you know large events like this could not happen without the knowledge of the Soviets since MOSCOW and NOT Polish nationalists controlled Poland after 1945 with an IRON FIST.

Are you aware of Soviet Soldiers getting the rioting going? Do you know anything about Soviet rule in Poland after 1945???? Evidently not.

Are you aware that ethnic tensions between Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, etc BENEFITED the Soviet Rulers of territories they controlled and many times were sparked by them? Are you aware that the "Polish media"/state media after 1945 was dominated by the Soviets? Are you aware of the IRON FIST control of the Soviet Union over Poland? Evidently you are not.

Also I have not seen your response to the article
"Stalin's Jews".

But how about answering this question, which I asked you before - How many Jews do you think Poles have killed?????
MediaWatch   
19 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

MareGaea,

Stalin's Jews

ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

Why don't you address what this Jewish writer said about Jewish involvement in Communism???.

Of course it shouldn't be a reflection on good Jews like you, so what's the problem?

You want to know if I have more information on Jewish involvement in Communism and other bad things Jews have done? I do but I thought I would start out with simple articles from Jews themselves.

What about the father of Communism "Karl Marx"? Now am I a bad guy for pointing out that he was Jewish?. No I am not saying all Jews are Communists I'm just pointing out those bad Jews. How about if I point out that Jewish American banker Jacob Shiff pumped 20 Million dollars in 1920 into the Bolshevik Revolution? This is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of these sources are not by Poles either. Do you want me to talk about next the "Holocaust Industry" by other Jews?

So please answer my question I asked before. How many Jews do you say Poles have killed?

Your referral to Gross' book is proof that he is as neutral as can be - so Neighbours and Fear weren't such lies after all? Or is Gross only a good guy when he writes convenient things?

Excellent Point!

Jan Gross wrote one-sided Jewish Supremacist anti-Polish books AFTER he saw he could profit from a certain wealthy anti-Polish segment of the Jewish community.

I think Jan Gross should COMBINE all of his books into ONE! You see Jan Gross is a hypocrite. In his anti-Polish books he basically questions "Why Poles hate Jews and did bad things to Jews"?? But his EARLIER INFORMATION ANSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS! His earlier book "Revolution from Abroad" showed how Jews were vicious anti-Polish anti-Ukrainian opportunists who OPENLY COLLABORATED with Soviets killing Poles and Ukrainians.

Gee, I wonder why Gross never made that connection??? LOL

But Jan Gross did acknowledge he EXAGGERATED the bad things Poles did to Jews. He was even cocky about it. Like when Poles said to him the barn that supposedly was used to burn SIXTEEN HUNDRED JEWS could ONLY FIT less than 300 Hundred people into it.

When Gross was asked (by Poles from the town of Jedwabne) how he could be so far off and say SIXTEEN HUNDRED JEWS could be in a Jedwabne barn that fits only 300 HUNDRED (or less), Gross smugly responded with a smirk, and said "I thought I would round off that number" and then Gross WALKED AWAY. What a cocky arrogant bastard.

He knew he was lying about how many Jews were killed in that barn, but hey he knew that would make "news" to the Polish-Haters in certain Jewish segments like the New York Times which believes all horrible things said about Poles by Jews, Hook Line and Sinker!

When Poles from the town of Jedwabne (the town he domonized as anti-semitic) came up to him to ask him tough questions, Jan Gross literally walked away from them. Gee I wonder why??? I guess it was a big difference to talk about "horrible Poles" in front of crowds of Jews salivating to hate Poles vs. Poles asking him tough questions about his "facts" in his exaggerated book.
MediaWatch   
19 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

One day the Poles will admit and then the road lies open for acceptance. But until then, there will be sick minds maintaining the most glorious nonsense known to mankind.

Well good you say you don't deny that there were Jews among the communists at one point. There might be the start of normal dialog on the bad that both Jews and Poles have done to each other.

The problem with you is that you generalize about Poles doing anti-semitic things to Jews by trying to define most or all Poles by bad Poles (and never answering the question WHY Jews CHOSE to LIVE in Poland for ONE THOUSAND YEARS if Poles are as bad as you say).

All people like myself do is point out the bad things that some Jews have done to Poles and you go crazy.

If you want to say that SOME Poles did bad things to Jews, that may be a fair statement. Just like SOME Jews did terrible things to Poles. That's what this comes down to in my book and any fair minded person's book is that there is good and bad in all groups. Wouldn't you agree? Or do you? Or do you think there were bareley any bad Jews that existed?

Here is information about the bad behavior of Jews from JEWISH SOURCES

From the Book "Revolution From Abroad" - Jan Gross (hardly a Pro-Polish guy)

Pg 32"What Poles and Ukrainians report, often with biting irony, the Jews do not deny: "Jews greeted the Soviet army with joy. The youth was spending days and evenings with the soldiers" "Jews received incoming Russians enthusiastically, they [the Russians] also trusted them [the Jews].

The first days of the Bolsheviks' presence were very nice. People (Jews) went out into the streets, kept looking over tanks, children walked after the soldiers"

Stalin's Jews

Why don't you address these above statements from JEWISH SOURCES??? Are they anti-semitic liars?? LOL

Not to mention what the US, British, Dutch and Russian governments have said about the origin of communism years ago. Forget about the Poles.

Of course it would be unfair to define all Jews today by the bad behavior of these Stalin Jews, since every group has bad and good as I have said many times. But you have to admit that Jews were DISPROPORTIONATELY represented in Soviet-Communist ranks. That's all Poles are saying in RESPONSE to you trying to demonize Poles in general by the bad behavior of SOME Poles.

So tell me MareGaea, in your opinion how many Jews have Poles killed according to you? I want to see where your coming from.

One day the Poles will admit and then the road lies open for acceptance. But until then, there will be sick minds maintaining the most glorious nonsense known to mankind.

Where have you been the past 2 decades? For the past 2 decades. From Walesa on, Polish governments have been falling over themselves either apologizing to Jews for perceived anti-semitism and or the Polish governments are Pro-Israel.

Meanwhile Jews are put on a pedestal and NEVER asked in public by the Polish government WHY did MOST Jews CHOSE to Live in Poland for ONE THOUSAND YEARS? Was "anti-semitism" the reason why Poland was a MAGNET for Jews for ONE THOUSAND YEARS?

What did the great rabbi Moses Isserles mean when he said "IF IT WERE NOT FOR POLAND, THE EXISTENCE OF THE TRIBE OF ISRAEL WOULD HAVE BEEN UNBEARABLE"

What is really sick minded is when a nation of people have to virtually get on there knees and beg for some kind of forgiveness from Jews especially when that nation gave Jews (who weren't always angels themselves) more relative freedoms and opportunities to develope their families and culture when virtually every other nation was hostile to Jews.
MediaWatch   
19 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

Lets put aside the Poles for a minute.

If you were to ask proud Russian nationalists "Who started Bolshevik/Communism in Russia?"

The answer would NOT be the Russians.

Maybe MareaG should ask some Russians who started Communism in their country.
MediaWatch   
19 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

Who in the world except a sick anti-Polish Bigot like yourself would ever suggest that "Poles had the right to just kill them (Jews) off"???

There you go again with your racist anti-Polish Bigotry trying to insinuate that Poles in general were "going around killing Jews off". Well if we are to use your logic then Jews must be the biggest idiot lunatics to CHOOSE TO LIVE IN POLAND FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.

According to your sick anti-Polish mind Poles are going around killing Jews off! LOL
So what is the reaction all these hundreds of years of Jews to this sick anti-Polish propaganda notion by Jews like you? "Hey lets all CHOOSE to LIVE IN POLAND TO LIVE"!! Yeah us Jews should go CHOOSE to live in that country Poland "where Poles are killing off Jews!"

Do you have any idea how sick and deranged you are with your anti-Polish hatred??

As for Jews, why they were all just saints and angels!

That's why and Israeli newspaper wrote an article on the millions of people communist Jews were responsible killing
Stalin's Jews

ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

Oh but don't tell MareaG that. That doesn't fit into his Jewish chauvinist idea that Jews are all wonderful.... and non-Jews, especially Poles, are just all terrible horrible people just looking to be bad anti-semites. LOL

For the record the Polish governments for the past 2 decades have been tripping over themselve kissing ass to Israel and apologizing to Jews for perceived anti-Semitism by Poles. This is while Jews never apologize for all the terrible things communist Jews did in Poland and Eastern Europe while collaborating with Stalin.
MediaWatch   
19 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

Will you pls get the fcuk out of here? Pls fcuk off. You already made it clear that you don't like Jews many times before and fail miserably to see the point. So now just fcuk off.

No you please fcuk off. All you do is come to this forum and try to find fault with the Polish people as far as the Jews go, while conveniently ignoring all the bad things Jews have done in Eastern Europe. Like Stalin's Jews. If it wasn't for MOST Jews CHOOSING to live in Poland for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and Poland ALLOWING JEWS to live in Poland (despite all other countries rejecting them) to have families and develope their culture, most Jews today would not be here.
MediaWatch   
18 Aug 2010
Life / Are Poles typically nasty people? [42]

I think most of the people on here are pretty nasty or at least neutral and I'm suprised because I've heard they are so nice (I've never met any Poles before my grandma died a long time ago). Is it because they live in such a crappy country or is it just a genetic personality trait?

Now Now Allison.

Don't you think you're being unfair and nasty yourself by throwing around these anti-Polish generalities?

I am of Polish ancestry and I am one of the nicest people I know! :D
MediaWatch   
18 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

The average newspaper in Europe back then just like now had Jews in them. So the negative reaction that the "average European" had of actions against Jews might be negative since that was the reaction the Jewish writer was trying to ELICIT from the average reader. Just like today! (Anti-Polish Bigot Richard Cohen of the Washington Post in early June tried to pull these anti-Polish shenanigans. But his anti-Polish Lies and anti-Polish Bigotry was so bad that Polish Americans and even some Jewish Americans made him take back some of his anti-Polish Lies and Bigotry in his later column)

But tell me, why didn't the average European newspaper talk about all the horrible things Jewish communists were doing? Too bad those European newspapers hid the fact that many high ranking Jewish Soviet Communists precipitated these anti-semitic incidents in Poland for JUST THE EFFECT you mentioned. To have an adverse reaction with other Europeans, or at least those who give 2 sh*ts about the Jews.

Jews Jews Jews Jews Jews seems to be all you are obsessed on. Frankly why should people care about them at all? They are no better han anyone else. We're all equal.

Tell me why didn't those newspapers back then and even now talk about all the horrible things communist Jews were doing INCLUDING setting up the Kielce pogrom for anti-Poland propaganda?

Stalins Jews (News suppressed by the daily press)
ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

The difference between this and the Kielce pogrom was that the Kielce pogrom took place AFTER WW2.

Well the average European back then didn't have all the facts and was not aware of the role Communist Jews had in setting up Poland for these kind of propaganda events. The Jews in the newspapers purposely used the average European naivety about sneaky communist Jews against them and purposely took a situation out of context to maximize anti-Polish propaganda put into their brains by the Jewish writers of these newspaperes.

Are you aware MG of the cocky attitude of Jewish writers in newspapers? Even 50 years ago Jewish American "news" writers would randomly pick a town in Poland, blatantly make up "anti-semitic events" that allegedly occured and put them in newspapers (The New York Times still does this today). When Polish Americans who had family in those towns would contact the Jewish writers and adamantly tell them they and their families have NO knowledge of those "anti-semitic" events going on in their home towns, the Jewish writer would then come clean and ADMIT he made the story up "just for shock value" "and to sell newspapers".
MediaWatch   
17 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

Have I missed anything from the above list which we should all agree on?

What a loaded and ridiculous topic meant to provoke more Poland-Bashing.

But what can one expect from good old "I love to see Poland Bashed Harry".

Just more of your Pole-Baiting eh Harry?

Yeah just read half of the comments of the topics on the Polish Forum and all you read are comments from Non-Poles (like you) AND Poles saying how glorious and wonderful Polish History is LOL!!!!!!!
MediaWatch   
13 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

That may be.

Off the top of my head I don't know the particulars of each of these Polish soccer players but I do know one or more of them had Polish parents that were athletes. That I'm sure helped too.

I believe the ingredients of a great athlete is half genetics and half environment. I'm sure the German soccer/sports environment helped a lot. No doubt.
MediaWatch   
13 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

We should just merge...that way the Poles get to cheer something too! Okay? :)

Maybe they were already more merged then meets the eye? Especially with intermarriages on the border area. Especially with sentiments of great Polish soccer players to-be, feeling they can max their potential on a German team. Sadly I heard a story where one of these great Polish soccer players were ignored by the Polish soccer team. Poland's loss and Germany's gain. Germany deserves credit for bringing them on board.
MediaWatch   
13 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

They're jst making a living, going were the money is. they dnt live in filthy Germany btw.

Come on Z, that's not nice.

funny how all these fat patriotic germans in the stands all cheer and go nuts for polish blood.......kind of reminds me when in WW2 Goebbels was traveling across the polish country side and noticed how all the Poles fit the ideal German characteristics more then the germans themselves ahaha

Germans of 2010 cheer for Polish soccer players on the German team because they are not like Germans of WWII. So that's good not bad. Maybe we can build on those modern sentiments.
MediaWatch   
13 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

Zbojnik,

Do you think there is any room today for Poles and Germans to overlook the past? I think so.

Europe prior to 1990 was just a cauldron of crazy ethnic nationalism. It should just be written off as a crazy past.

European populations of today in general are too old to entertain hyper nationalistic notions. They also are sick of World Wars.

I think in general European nations, including Poland and Germany just want to move on and have peace.
MediaWatch   
6 Aug 2010
History / Destruction of Ukrainian churches in Poland in 1938 [289]

Sokrates don't you think you're being a little too hard on the Ukrainians?

Poles have not always made the best decisions.

Also Poland's location closer to the EU has helped modernize Poland. Ukraine does not have this advantage.