They were raised during the PRL and are not taken seriously by anyone born after 1990.
Those are sad clowns and mental midgets, especially those who were in their 20s' in 1981, as all the hard-core Poles were either killed, imprisoned, or forced to emigrate.
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No genuine Pole talks about Tuwim.
That subject is pulled out by the old commies with their lectures on Jews, bad Polish nationalism, and other commie BS nonsense. They are intellectual zeros as they do not know any better. Pitful fools!
Considering how many accounts have been banned from this forum and Reddit for speaking the truth, and the fact it is illegal in Poland to criticize Jews, it is far from a "bastion of free speech".
In Germany, it's been illegal to belittle either the Holocaust or Hitler either in public or even within earshot at work for at least fifty years, maybe longer! Even an innocent tourist has just bought themselves a pretty fine, depending upon the deemed severity of the remark, a wee bit of jail time.
I say, that's no more than right, considering their history.
On the surface at any rate, the US does in fact allow people to say what they wish in public. Yet, with all this flap regarding free speech at various American universities, I'm not so sure any more. At least, if somebody blurts out on the street in broad daylight something positive about the Nazis, presumably all they'd receive would be a dozen or so mega-dirty looks and some choice invectives from passers by.
And that's why the US is still an unmatched gold standard of free speech. Europe's free speech laws with their asterisks and disclaimers are a bad joke. The main reason for the First Amendment was to protect hateful and offensive speech - the kind that makes Euros cringe in discomfort. Good. Cringe...
@Rich, the history of Europe evinces far more examples of challenges to free speech compared with that of the US.
Until 9/11, we'd here remained relatively isolated from war and the famine of the early years of the Depression is but a distant memory, in contrast with much of Europe. Therefore, it was easy for Americans to talk in a facile way about freedom of speech.
On the other hand, Germany endured twelve gruesome years under the Nazis, and so even nowadays jokes about that period continue to rub salt in an already festering wound.
America has been involved in constant wars globally before the Great Depression (WWI) and after it (WWII, Korea, Vietnam).
Here is a much longer list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Europe enjoyed great long periods of great prosperity over the centuries and in particular after WWII thanks to American investment both economically and militarily.
Europe has no excuse to be so much against freedom of speech other than its penchant for such totalitarianism learned under decades of communist regimes in the East and Socialist regimes in the West.
People who see wars only on TV and never get invoices tend to be more tolerant of them. Add to it a good dose of patriotism, "freedom and democracy" talk, and they will love any war no matter how far away...at least initially...Then those body bags and men without legs and arms...ouch...The romance is over...
True freedom means allowing for unpopular speech, even if hurtful. However, what former Harvard Pres. Dr. Gay pitifully, indeed shamefully, overlooked, was that there's a world of difference between criticizing any group as opposed to calling for their destruction!
Guess what, Rich. I'm not a fan of PC either! As I've said though on many occasions, political correctness was a much needed reaction against the generational cruel labeling of others whom those in authority felt were unworthy of dignity or respect, from school to Church to the work world.
In the "old days", grade school teachers could smack and repeatedly abuse children verbally. This is but one example. Surely, nobody wants to return to such times and this I say as a parent.
Why so threatened by them, Rich? Unless there's something about you we don't know:-)
I am not threatened by a dog sh*it on my front lawn but I still don't want it there.
There is a difference between moving a barrier and removing a barrier. Out of our stupid compassion, we removed all barriers. The result: big guys with big dicks can now enter women's private areas and sports only because they said: I am a woman. Not cutting, drilling, or slicing is necessary...Only the a-hole's verbal declaration.
It works since you have no counterargument. In fact, no comment of any kind because you are a pacifist weasel. Not even "what you posted is not true". Just a throwaway meaningless crap...
In the "old days", grade school teachers could smack and repeatedly abuse children verbally.
Yup, the little deeksters got their pants warmed up and their will broken. Boo Hoo Hoo ! Thats how they learned who was in charge and right from wrong.
Surely, nobody wants to return to such times
Why, it worked quite well for raising accountable and responsible children. Your Liberal Woke Pacifist way doesn't seem to be working so well as now the children are suing their parents, o.d.ing on drugs and shooting their teachers and classmates.
Would you rather see them get their little feelings hurt or end up in prison or dead ?
Apparently, you folks rationalize something "working" by how few complaints there were about it.
Ever occur to you brain trusts out there that maybe, just maybe, people were deeply affected psychologically through generations of systematic, systemic abuse, but the average person was merely too lame brained to notice anything?
A father typically slaps his son around on a fairly regular basis and calls the kid names. A caring neighbor who's known the guy gently suggests that possible he's being too hard on his boy. "Ahh, whatdyya talkin', the kid's a fighter, he can take it, yer crazy!"
Well, guess what, gang. That kid will doubtless grow up into a verbally as well as physically abusive adult, potentially a dangerous criminal.
That would get you fired at most US news outlets and unis. These two questions are used to test wokeness here. Did you notice how Lyzko didn't answer either one? I am not surprised since we have a black leftist bit*ch on the Supreme Court who couldn't define a woman but has no difficulty with saying: I am the first black woman on the USSC.
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