Posted on 07/22/2019 5:36:10 AM PDT by Salman
KIELCE, Poland— Upbeat ’80s pop music accompanied about 1,000 rainbow-draped activists as they embarked on this city’s first LGBT rights march, on July 13. But the music could barely drown out the boos from bystanders.
The marchers proceeded past banners that compared gay people to pedophiles. They pressed on in the face of counterprotesters making threatening gestures and Catholics praying on the sidewalks in silent protest.
The scene reflected a growing tension in this country — between a burgeoning rights movement and a conservative backlash. It’s a tension that the Polish ruling party has been accused of fueling and exploiting.
Ahead of parliamentary elections this fall, Law and Justice has thrown the full weight of its party apparatus behind a campaign that is marginalizing Poland’s LGBT community, its critics say.
The party’s new focus on countering what its officials call Western “LGBT ideology” has largely replaced its prior rallying cries against migrants, said Michal Bilewicz, a researcher at the University of Warsaw who tracks the prevalence of prejudices against minorities in public discourse.
In 2015, anti-migrant rhetoric helped the right-wing populist party come to power, according to data gathered by Bilewicz. But even at the height of Europe’s surge, Poland never saw many non-European migrants, and public attention became more difficult to sustain once the flow to the continent diminished.
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Who could have predicted this would be the number one issue, all over the world?
Who could have predicted this would be the number one issue, all over the world?
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It isnt. It is the cover for the real story: the leftist fascist totalitiarian takeover of Western Civ.
Between this, Hungary and Brazil... I sincerely hope it’s a trend before we fold up and turn off the lights.
Poles build closets
How would it even work? Pink liederhosen clad Poles dancing the Can Can to an accordion and clarinet? No pictures, please;)
“ruling party”, how about normal people decide what is socially desirable.
The Gay Mafia is the communist’s favorite army.
Highly funded, radical and the communists don’t have to do a thing other than take over once they are done.
“LGBT ideology”
Good description. I wish the Poles Godspeed.
CINC Communist Army is Satan himself.
Watch all the satanist force OUT OF THE COUNTRY fund and provide massive amounts of pressure to kill sanity in Poland.
Pray for our Polish brothers and sisters, let them keep their gender the way God made them.
The Polish people I have met and worked with were some of the most intelligent (street and technical smarts) people on Earth IMO. They know what the purpose of “Gay Rights” is, as everyone already has “rights”. My theory is that the “Dumb Pollock” stereotype comes from when they meet up with bottles of vodka!
I had always read that the "dumb Pollock" stereotype is the consequence of the Nazis spreading this propaganda because the Polls put up such fierce resistance to Nazi occupation, and as a consequence, kept embarrassing Nazi attempts to subjugate them. The Nazis believed they could spread rumors that Pollocks were too stupid to know what was good for them.
Pollock jokes began more or less as a Nazi effort to marginalize them, or so I have read.
My father, a WWII MP wouldn't
allow Polish jokes (or Nazi references)
to be spoken aloud in the house
"they (the Nazis) killed all of the intelligent
people of Poland, they killed you
if you wore eyeglasses"
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Interesting! Never heard that one but I’ll look into it!
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