On Saturday, July 20 at the stadium at Łazienkowska, Legia fans developed banners. On 1 of them a girl with a braid burning like a cornbed, white teeth glisten in the setting of red lips, the dress has a national, a cross on her neck, and in the hands a plate not with bread and salt, but a cut off pig's head. Behind her are 2 men who do not smile, 1 holding a baseball bat, another hammer. The following inscription: ‘refugees welcome” adorned with flowers.
This banner is rather an apparent message that fans dream of cleansing. They want Poland to stay ethnic, spiritual and culinaryly uniform. Tools, traditionally, can be ordinary. They utilized to be pitchforks, sticks, scythes, now a baseball bat and a hammer. Baseball bat – an attribute of urban banditism, 1 of the first imports from the Western transformation era. Hammer is simply a tool that in March in Vilnius Leonid Volkov was beaten., co-worker of Alexey Navalny, and the suspects are to be connected to the community of cheerleading ultrasounds.
Purge is already happening. Recently, a young, seventeen-year-old boy from Ukraine remained machete attack. He's had a miracle. He's gonna request a long recovery. The detainees were charged with being active in the beating with a dangerous tool, which seems to be euphemism, given that they were hitting the head with a machete.
And this is not the only attack motivated by xenophobia or racism. Only in 2020 The prosecution registered 1658 proceedings concerning racist crime. According to erstwhile calculations of RPO only About 5% of crimes Motivated hatred is reported. It's data from a fewer years ago. How will it be now that the recently elected democratic government, depenalizes the usage of weapons against migrants? Only by soldiers, of course, and only at the border.
The parliament says we defend borders. Commentators say: economics and demography can force us to accept migrants. Trybuna przy Łazienkowskaej: they must remember that the “goat” can be pronounced at any time, and the communicative of “a tolerant Poland, free from piles” or “a 1000 years of common history” will be replaced by an unspoken but acquainted communicative about Poland, whose community is bound by pogrom and silence.
“We are coming after you”
Which politician will now say to the browns, like Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz: “We are going after you”? Donald Tusk announced in April, after the arrest of an attempted assassin who wanted to kill Volodymyr Zelenski and who was to come from the same environment as the perpetrator of the attack on Volkov, that “there would be no indulgence for the collaborators of Russian services. We will burn all betrayal and effort to destabilize with iron."
However, their banner kiboles of the Legion effort to stand on the same side of patriotic forces. They're going to hand-to-hand with the hunters that Kosiniak-Kamish invited to defend the borders, with Mr. Farmers pouring manure at the sight of Muslims, with Mr. MPs who voted to decryminalize the shooting. Very cleverly they did not hang from the roof the large sign “we love Putin”, but the grim mockery from the slogan “refugees welcome“, adding that – again, like the Polish political mainstream – they are against the Migration Pact and “illegal migrants”. They are the first to say “we are coming after you”: in fact, to all they consider to be the Other. They want to patrol the Commonwealth. And they make it odor like blood?
Ewa Zajądzkowska-Hernik, a recently elected Euro MP from the Confederate, who late voted out Ursula von der Leyen “as mother” for the Green Deal and the Migration Pact, the match setting was very popular. However, most public opinion is concerned.
Predictably outraged were expressed by the members of the Left, the councillor of Prague-South Dorota Spyrk, Agata Diduszko-Zyglewski and Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who stressed that full families were coming to the stadium.
Club The Legion is about to issue a statement, in which it is cut off from the views presented in the stands. He reminded of his charity actions for Ukrainians and emphasized that "Legia Warszawa is simply a club that respects and respects the diversity of views and beliefs, [...] which, by its actions, does everything to set a good example on the basis of values specified as respect, fair play and aid to those in need".
Michał Szczerba of KO called the action of supporters "pure evil" and "hate policy" and tried to nuance that it was about defending the borders of Poland and Schengen, not about mistreatment of migrants. I regret to say that these nuances will not necessarily be commonly understood as long as there is simply a voice of fear and hatred from the seismic stands. Polish fear, Polish racism, in order to take the form of little harmful, unscathed pogroms, would gotta hit the environment with consistent values in which racist hatred simply does not fit.
A patriotic canon
I don't know why Minister Kosiniak-Kamish inactive hasn't commented on the banner. After all, he has just promised that it is impossible for leftist or rightist extremists and has an thought for a canon of reading, which will accommodate Olga Tokarczuk and Henryk Sienkiewicz, a canon guaranteeing values, universal patriotism average and appreciating the beauty of Polish nature. There is to be a place in the canon for Witos, Piłsudski, Dmowski, Daszyński, Paderewski and Korfanty, Kuronia and Kornel Morawiecki. I realize that work for independency will be the key, and the deficiency of this canon of Maria Dulębianka, Maria Konopnicka, Maria Dąbrowska, Aleksandra Piłsudska, Zofia Moraczewska or Barbara Labuda is due to the quality of the course of past that the minister passed.
This is the next speech of the PSL policy on the perfect formation of Poles and Poles. Members of this organization have just defended their presence Kolbe's father and Ulmów family in the Museum of the Second War in Gdansk. What will they do with the patriotism of the Legion's ultrasound?
A canon like that seems necessary. erstwhile things are falling apart, there is no assurance in political structures and institutions, the last thing we think about ourselves is what we think. What will we answer to the question about what is most crucial for Poland? I like solidarity most, the tradition of organizing, supporting, helping. The festival of solidarity was last experienced after February 24, 2022, erstwhile Poles and Poles mostly went to aid Ukrainians. Then on October 15, 2023, erstwhile authoritarian power was removed from government. But somehow, I don't see politicians in that sail.
The problem is that Polish conservatism has inactive not developed a relation with authoritarianism. He's more excused than condemned. It does not cut off due to the fact that vertical hierarchical structures know from practice better than horizontal, democratic. due to the fact that he believes in the figure of a father, the head of a nation, who will bring order with a strong hand. due to the fact that it justifies force against the underdogs, if exposing it would reconcile authority. due to the fact that erstwhile he starts to deficiency arguments, he hits the weeping speech of the victim, who, due to the fact that he is the victim, cannot take work for anything.
The conservative center precisely through this weakness of PSL towards authoritarianism will be tilted to the right. And this tilt will not let an adequate consequence to the challenges. For example, on the improvement of an inclusive, civic Polishness, located for fresh citizens and citizens not in the hierarchy of contempt, but in a simple, non-requiring, unforced sympathy. I urge Minister Kosiniak-Kamish to read a completely current book Prejudice in Poland. Basics and political ideology, where the relation between the propensity to authoritarianism and the consent to violence, aggression, hostility, prejudice against migrants, minorities has been accurately described. The applicable paragraph is on page 121.
The visible tilt of the PSL to the right, towards authoritative conservatism, tilts the full Sejm to the right. I realize that following the polls is convenient for politicians in the short term, and they leave no illusions at the moment: since 2015 the attitude of Poles towards migrants has steadily deteriorated, at the worst minute until 3 out of 4 people refused to let them into Poland, and in 2021 over half did not want to grant asylum to victims of conflicts and wars. However, following these sentiments means allowing force to be turned on. What will be the argument for politicians voting to shoot against kibola's announcements, against "patriot patrols" at the border? If they do not want, and say that they do not want force to spill on the streets of Polish cities, they must put a dam on it now, erstwhile force is being done and threatened by Polish citizens.
Symptomatic are the appeals for punishing the Legion club to the president of Warsaw. This city is expected to keep order, to be a base of standards that will let us, in large clusters, to live next to each another in peace.
