[Eleutheria5]

OK. So by that logic Poles in America are really very smart, because they had to counter the pollack jokes popular there. But many Poles in Poland apparently lacked that vital mental workout, ultimately producing the likes of Pan Korwin-Mikke. He suffers from derisive ethnic joke deprivation.

By the same logic, blacks in America became able to endure great pain by getting whipped on the plantation, and developed powerful neck muscles by getting lynched. There are theories that black preachers deliberately provoked lynchings for this purpose.

[dp0622]

Yeah this guy’s missing all his picture cards :)

[Telepathic Intruder]

If done intentionally, that would be artificial, not natural selection. But the guy is clearly cracked.

[nickcarraway]

This guy is an idiot. By the way, Germany and Russia killed a lot of Poles then too.

[Responsibility2nd]

Whoa.

I can imagine he would also say Slavery was what made black folks stronger and better athletes.

[LouieFisk]

I would need all the arms of a Hindu god to make enough facepalms for this one.

[treetopsandroofs]

““Jews are now powerful because they had pogroms,” he said. “As a result of pogroms, the strongest and the most gifted survived. This is a warning to anti-Semites: That is why Jews are powerful, because they had pogroms. There are even theories that rabbis deliberately provoke pogroms precisely so that Jews survive and then there is natural selection.””

So let’s see, the Jews started the holocaust to make themselves stronger, AND the German National Socialist Workers party didn’t go far enough to prevent it.

Got it.

[Hatteras]

"The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he's been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That's where it all started!" -Jimmy the Greek

[Avalon Memories]

This fool is an example of the room temperature end of the IQ bell curve. With some 7 billion humans on the planet, that end of the curve has hundreds of millions gathered there.

[Hostage]

If true, this is one of the stupidist statements ranking right up there with Mini-Mike’s epic gaffes.

Contrary to historical smears, Polish people are very smart. If this report is true, this is an exception.

[Meatspace]

Jimmy the Greek meet Jimmy the Pole

[lee martell]

This is what you call a “Backhanded Compliment”.
His anti-jew bias still oozes forth.

[Shethink13]

A far-right lawmaker in Poland said that natural selection in pogroms have made Jews powerful, and that “there are theories” that rabbis provoked violence to achieve this.

As usual - "a far-right lawmaker".

[llevrok]

So by this guy’s logic, Beto O’Rouke’s followers should be strong and smart as heck?

[montag813]

It’s amazing how many people are literally obsessed with such a minuscule percentage of humanity.

[Red Badger]

A lot of Europeans will blame Jews for anything and everything when given the opportunity...................

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes, the “right” in Europe is very different from the “right” in the USA. There is still strong anti-Semitic fervour in Europe.

[Dave Wright]

Obviously an ignorant person who knows nothing about either natural selection or history. If his theory was correct there would be vast communities of Jewish people thriving in Poland and the rest of Europe. The tragedy is that they have been nearly driven to extinction by racist eugenic theories like thie.

[stormer]

I was helping mentor a group of college students about 15 years ago. One of the girls, a 2nd generation Polish-American from the upper midwest - very smart and motivated student - was absolutely flabbergasted that Poles in the US were ever the objects of ethnic jokes. I was stunned.

[Shethink13]

“Jews are now powerful because they had pogroms,” he said. “As a result of pogroms, the strongest and the most gifted survived. This is a warning to anti-Semites: That is why Jews are powerful, because they had pogroms. There are even theories that rabbis deliberately provoke pogroms precisely so that Jews survive and then there is natural selection.”

I don't see any reference to Auschwitz in this quote. He is referring to pogroms. At the very least the headline is midleading.

Please do not attack me as being a nut-job. I'm just reading the actual quote and it does not comport with the headline.

He also sends a warning to "anti-Semites". Whether the warning is sympathetic or antithetic I cannot say. I just have a thing for accuracy.

[wildcard_redneck]

“OK. So by that logic Poles in America are really very smart, because they had to counter the pollack jokes popular there. But many Poles in Poland apparently lacked that vital mental workout, ultimately producing the likes of Pan Korwin-Mikke. He suffers from derisive ethnic joke deprivation.”

While I do not like the messenger, Jewish pogroms were about killing Jews, not telling jokes about them. Jewish people in Europe and in the Muslim world faced severe persecution for over a thousand years and that had to have some affect on weeding out the simple minded. During the Holocaust it was mostly the smartest, toughest minded, and healthiest that survived.

Not only did the persecution create a genetic effect it also made the Jewish people a tight-knit community. And no, I am not Jewish.