Posted on 08/17/2016 12:25:44 AM PDT by Trump20162020
The Polish government has approved a new bill that foresees prison terms of up to three years for anyone who uses phrases like “Polish death camps” to refer to Auschwitz and other camps that Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during the second world war.
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Down the memory hole because we’d be better off forgetting about it.
They are NAZI death camps, in Poland. More accurate.
The death camps were not Polish. I can see why they would be upset at the term.
Threatening jail for three years for saying “Polish death camps” is ridiculous, no matter how you slice it.
Evil does not want us to speak its name, and when it harms us to look the other way, to accept that the harm it has done to us did not really hurt, and was really for our own good after all. And should we refuse to accept its persuasions, we’ll be accused of being the cause of the harm evil has done.
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It seems there are people today who have never heard of the Nazi death camps. Probably Asians or Africans. If they were told about those "Polish death camps" they might think that it is the Polish who were responsible for them. I can't imagine another rationale for that legislation.
The great majority of Asians never heard of World War II.
On this subject - here’s an astonishing thing: the great majority of Westerners have never heard of the Tai-Ping rebellion.
It killed more people than WW2, and we’ve never heard of it.
I’m with the Poles on this one. Huge numbers of them died in these ‘Polish death camps’.
Imagine if they were called ‘Jewish death camps’.
I suspected this, at least about the Asians whose countries weren't affected by the WWII's Pacific campaign. Even those, whose countries were, may know nothing about the European theatre's events.
The great majority of Asians never heard of World War II.
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You can’t be serious!!!!!!!!! Obviously you’ve never heard of the war in the Pacific..........or such countries as China, Japan, the Philippines, India, etc. I’m sure the people of Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Bataan, Singapore, the Philippines, etc. etc. etc. have no knowledge of their homeland’s history during WW II!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
Actually I have a problem imagining who would come up with such idea. The knowledge on the death camps in Poland seems common to me too, that's why I need to guess a rational reason for the Polish bill.
Do you believe it should be a jailable offense to say "Jewish death camps"?
I guess the best way to think of it is as a Polish Holocaust-denier law. There’s added weight behind the law because the Poles lost 20% of their population to the Nazis.
Well, I can understand their feelings. But the bill is against the free speech, like Holocaust denying, though.
If the Jewish state passed such a law, I would have no problem with it whatever.
The Jews and the Poles suffered wholesale murder of a kind that we cannot imagine. The Poles lost 1/5 of their population. One fifth!
If they want to ban what they regard as a pathological revisionist diminution of this colossal slaughter, then I get where they’re coming from.
Hmm, but I guess to be consistent I should stop talking about ‘Armenian genocide’ and ‘Ukrainian genocide’.
The Turkish genocide and the Soviet genocide, maybe.
I like the American way of dealing with such things, (as I understand the situation from afar) that the public deals with such things with reasonoable speech or boycott and mocking when the first doesn’t help. Police measures are inappropriate when the subject is an idea.
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