Last year there was a law on the protection of historical fact and national anti-hate speech strategy – this paper established the creation of a body of experts and teachers in the Ministry of National Education for Holocaust Education and Anti-Semitism, which will guarantee that statements or endorsements do not violate political correctness standards. The paper is very extended – it besides covers the support of judaic life for the years 2025–2030.
Importantly, the bill went quietly.
Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurek wants to form prosecutorial teams to fight hatred speech, including speeches against Ukraine. We are at a point where the individual views of the ruling organization let us to usage their function to fight those who talk out loud the fact about Ukrainian corruption, about its ingratitude, etc. If you want to know who is in charge in Poland, see who is not to be criticized.
These are laws which Polish society did not ask for, but which it nevertheless received. Pushed with a knee, packed in slogans about “modernity”, “Europeanity” or “historical need”. On the another hand, a separate law on the penalisation of flagism, which is requested not only by the environment of the East Borders, but besides by historians, publicists and average citizens with an simple sense of justice, has been buried in silence for years. The silence of significance. Politically comfortable silence – so quiet, as if the rulers wanted to not hear this celebrated "Ukrainian sensitivity".
The same applies to the Antipolonism Act. erstwhile false historical narratives circulate around the planet without any reaction from the state, we hear that "it's complicated". But erstwhile you gotta immediately pass a law that does not truly hurt anyone – abruptly there is no uncertainty or reflection.
Nobody will guarantee that the slogan "Polish death camps" is never repeated again, and Polish soldiers from planet War II can be placed against 1 wall with Nazi degenerates.
On the Facebook portal, constantly increasing up groups in which common circles of Ukrainian or Zionist adoration compose about Polish business Lviv or interprets past in specified a way that it is more pleasant for the country – the torturer.
The state can be determined only towards its own citizens, and rather helpless towards another people's lies and symbolic violence.
A Europe that bears on itself black cards of past has no peculiar request to protest erstwhile past begins to be rewritten. On the contrary, silence can be comfortable. fresh narratives let you to blur your guilt, decision your accents, match the victims with the perpetrators. Better yet, individual else will take on the weight of individual else's sins. The collective conscience breathes easier. Why am I mentioning Europe? due to the fact that strangers do not care about historical fact or its protection. A country that does not even care about its symbolic safety becomes abroad to us.
National memory becomes a problem, but it is no longer a political asset. past has become a interchangeable commodity, and collective dignity has become a bargaining chip in diplomatic poker.
In this carded space, the slogan "the crime in Jedwabne" for years functioned as an invisible whip on the Polish back – not as a starting point for a reliable and substantive historical debate based on facts, but as a summary of thought, moral whip "because Poles too" – as an argument closing their mouths. All they had to say was to cancel any effort to talk about the Polish experience of war, about the panic of occupation, about the scale of German responsibility. The password is ready, the conviction is given, the context is unnecessary, and the fact is gone like a memorial to the actual perpetrators.
Europe did not protest. Not due to the fact that she knew the truth. due to the fact that this communicative was useful – the most Germans and Europe, which inactive did not full account for its own collaborations, transitional camps, administrative obedience to evil. Polish wine acted like a area in which you relax from feeling guilty. individual else could have become a symbol. individual else may have borne the burden of collective ambiguity.
This is about the hierarchy of cases. For what is considered worthy of protection, and for what is an embarrassing legacy, which is best avoided. Society asks for simple historical and legal justice. In response, we get laws to amend: that "now is not the time", "now is not the time", "now is more important".
They always are. Only someway never the ones that people truly want.
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