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PiS regime withdraw adverts for waste segregation due to 'gender'Yet another gaffe by the PiS regime. They're pulling a series of TV and Internet advertising spots (which cost 4 million zlotych to make) And one of the reasons - wait for it - is that some ghastly politician called Slawomir Mazurek, the 'Vice-Minister for the Environment' disapproves of the fact that some of the adverts star the much-loved Polish food critic Maciej Nowak, presenter of Polish Masterchef.
Maciej Nowak is a thoroughly respectable (and respected) public figure with a show on prime-time TV (and he's also the founder of the Institute of Theatre in Warsaw) however the fact that he's gay (half the TV/theatre industry are and so is Jaroslaw Kaczynski) is somehow important enough for them that they don't care if people segregate their trash or not and are prepared to waste 4 million pln of your and my money.
The link below (in Polish) more or less sums it up and contains a quote from the ministry which says
At the same time, we do not have to hide that those who take part in this spot ...... are however, in a movement that promotes ideology that is contrary to tradition and this is the ideology of gender. It is implanted (in these spots) in a subtle way
tvn24.pl/ministerstwo-srodowiska-wycofalo-spoty-z-maciejem-nowakiem,613014,s.html
Can't these clowns in PiS do anything that doesn't bring themselves and Poland into ridicule? I wonder if they're going to suggest banning the teletubbies again because of Tinky Winky's handbag, or maybe finally pull
Keeping Up Appearances (still a big favourite in Poland) from the airwaves because of Patricia Routlege being a confirmed spinster....
Mods, why merge the thread with this one? It isn't anything to do with crime and isn't alleging crime. Just stupidity, bigotry and media manipulation.