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I wonder if anyone in the government realized that of course we would be protesting after a decision like that, they taught us that, we have it in our blood

They rised us on Warsaw Uprising, January Uprising, November Uprising, Kościuszko Uprising and every other uprising that happened here

On school children and students protesting during the Partitions

On all those student and worker protests in communist Poland

On "Solidarity", the Round Table and protests in Gdańsk Shipyard

On farmers blocking Warsaw with their tractors and apples, and taxi drivers making blockades too

On nurses and doctors protesting low wages by fasting and on teachers refusing to teach for a month for the same reason

On parents of disabled children fighting for better life for their children

On women with black umbrellas missing work so their rights wouldn't be taken away

Of course we would fight, even if the fight's already lost, we know our history

Our ancestors did it, our parents and grandparents did it, and now we're the ones doing it

We may loose, but hey, we're making history

Also I saw many children at current protests

So I guess now we're teaching them

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female politicians of the left occupied the podium of polish sejm and surrounded the chairman of the law and justice party and current deputy prime minister, jarosław kaczyński, yelling “this is war” and “disgrace.”

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An update, guys. This is getting worse!

Spread the message!

Vote, god damnit, America!

Support each other!

And to all my sisters out there - don't give up, fight!

And I kindly remind you that the President of Poland - Andrzej Duda (Anżej Dupa), said that we, the LGBTQA+ folks aren't people, we are an ideology, so fuck him and the "government"

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!If you want to help Poland!

The amazing cielesne just posted information on how you can help our country during this very difficult time. Not many people follow them, so I want to share this here.

Please, take a moment to read this information and reblog so more people will know how to help us!

Credits: cielesne (visit their ig and link in bio to donate and read more on how to help)

Don't stay silent! Help us win this war.

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just another day in Poland

if anybody knows who the girl is tag her

I don't even know how to express my feelings right now. there is just so much wrong happening.

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I spilled coffee all over my notes and on my laptop second time today ..

exam season is getting EVEN BETTER

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chuj mnie strzeli w tym kraju ja pierdole

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ja tylko przypomnę że żyje w kraju w którym dostaje się nagrody za zmuszenie do rodzenia dzieci pomimo że tego się nie chce, w kraju gdzie pedofil jest ułaskawiony bo " to sprawy rodzinne", w kraju gdzie każdy o innej orientacji jest szkalowany tylko dlatego że jest sobą, w kraju gdzie bezrobocie stoi na tym samym poziomie co ludzie pracujący, gdzie przkupstwo stało się formą zdobywania elektoratu, gdzie prezydent mówi że jest przeciwko wszystkim obowiązkowym szczepieniom, gdzie edukacja seksualną dzieci ma zależeć od rodziców którzy w większości nie dysponują odpowiednimi narzędziami żeby ta wiedze przekazać, gdzie kryzys klimatyczny traktuje się jakby nie istniał, gdzie chcą odebrać prawa do aborcji, gdzie prezydent sam miesza się w swoich słowach gdy nie ma przemówienia wyrytego na pamięć, gdzie lepiej wydać na publiczną propagandę 2 mld niż na przykład na służbę zdrowia, gdzie za obrażanie prezydenta można iść do więzienia ale jak prezydent obraża innych to jest już w porządku, gdzie ludzie u władzy stoją ponad zwykłymi obywatelami bo "spełniają obowiązek" a tak na prawdę zwyczajnie łamią prawo, gdzie ceny rosną i rosną ale ludzie mówią że w porządku bo państwo daje mi pieniądze, gdzie tolerancja i równość wobec prawa jest tylko na papierze..

nie chce żyć w takim kraju, mam nadzieję że jeszcze może się to zmienić, może kiedyś zanim sobie powiemy do widzenia

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boli mnie serce jak ludzie przy wyborach cytując wiedźmina o wybieraniu mniejszego i większego zła i nie głosują....

ON W KOŃCU I TAK WYBRAŁ I ZROBIŁ CO UWAŻAŁ ZA SŁUSZNE

jesus christ przeczytajcie tego wieśka zanim jebniecie cytatem you uncultured swine

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Ja dzisiaj:

Ja jutro:

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after election in Poland I am scared living in my home country

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Jeśli kogoś to interesuje, w I turze nasz głos otrzymuje Robert Biedroń. Tak, to nie jest idealny kandydat i ma sporo wad. Ale jednocześnie to jedyny kandydat z prospołecznym, równościowym, lewicowym programem. Choć nie ma szans na drugą turę, wybory na pewno nie rozstrzygną się w pierwszej, więc nie widzimy powodu, by nie zagłosować ideowo, a nie tylko czysto pragmatycznie. I do tego Was również zachęcamy.

Jednocześnie, z zażenowaniem patrzymy na liberalne media, którym chęć dobrania się do koryta zaćmiła rzeczywistość tak bardzo, że jak tylko mogą próbują wygładzić wizerunek Bosaka. Dotychczas opisywany jako faszysta i ekstremista, teraz nagle staje się łagodnym barankiem, który ma świetne zdolności polityczne i może wcale nie będzie wtrącał LGBT do obozów, więc w sumie to nie jest tak źle. A nawet jak będzie wtrącał, to niech chociaż zasugeruje gdzieś między słowami, żeby w drugiej turze głosować przeciw Dudzie i wszystko mu wybaczymy. To jest obrzydliwe.

I tym bardziej warto głosować na kandydata Lewicy, by pokazać, że nie dla wszystkich Polska to tylko prawicowa wojenka między PiSem a PO, że jest jakaś inna wizja tego kraju. Wizja, gdzie nie trzeba robić polityki na klęczkach przed zwierzchnikami z episkopatu; gdzie nie trzeba ukrywać swojej orientacji, by nie dostać w mordę na ulicy; gdzie nie jest normą, że wynajęci bandyci eksmitują cię z mieszkania; gdzie przedsiębiorstwo nie jest prywatnym folwarkiem, w którym prezes może traktować pracowników jak zwierzynę; gdzie kobieta nie musi robić aborcji w piwnicznych komórkach, bo grozi jej wieloletnie więzienie za usunięcie ciąży. Biedroniowi daleko do ideału, ale te postulaty (które, jak się wydaje, powinny być normą w cywilizowanym państwie) są dziś obecne wyłącznie w jego programie.

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Homophobia in Polish politics

CW: homophobia, transphobia, hate speech;

Right now, it seems that the entire Polish Presidential election of 2020 is revolving around the subject of LGBT people (and yes, I didn’t add a plus because most people here don’t even realise that there can be something more).

Basically, the current President (Andrzej Duda) is right-wing, and he decided to make - for a lack of a better term - ‘the LGBT question’ an important part of his program for 2020. I assume this was a conscious decision, because the nation has been basically severed in half on the matter, and it has been a very controversial subject, to the point that a politician’s opinion on LGBT people could determine their whole electorate. Thus, by blatantly stating his opposition to the LGBT movement, the President seems to be aiming at uniting right-wing voters.

It strikes me as ridiculous and worrying that this subject is a ground for such controversy, and that the thing right-wing people of Poland seem to have in common is hatred for queer people. I am not particularly surprised that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia are common in Poland, but I am worried that more and more, they are becoming a tool of politics and propaganda.

It may sound absurd, but government propaganda in Poland is actually a very real issue. Obviously, it bears no comparison with totalitarian or authoritarian states, but it is getting worse and worse. TVP - the public television receives a truly ludicrous amount of funding. Google is not the best source for such estimations, but TVP was granted the sum of approximately 506 million dollars for it’s operations, and keep in mind - Poland doesn’t have that big of an income in general. This money could have gone into the truly devastated public healthcare system, infrastructure, salaries for workers, anything would be better than to spend it on a corrupt television network, that exists solely to provide citizens with their everyday dose of propaganda along the lines of:

“Our nation is great! It is the greatest! Glory to the martyrs! Glory to the government! Death to the opposition! Death to George Soros! Death to anyone who doesn’t agree with us!”

And I’m only slightly exaggerating. Recently though, the prime subject of public ridicule and contempt in television has been the LGBT movement. This isn’t anything new, as documentaries demonising queer people like “Inwazja” - lit. translated to ‘Invasion’ - have been broadcasted from the TVP platform on youtube as well as on television. I am glad that the court demanded “Inwazja” being taken down from youtube, but it did nothing to stop the overtly negative view of LGBT people presented in our national public media.

I should probably address the thing that hit me the most during Duda’s campaign, wich is the language. I always pay a huge attention to semantics in politics, and what is happening right now is unacceptable. Right-wing people have been sounding alarm about imaginery concepts like: ‘the LGBT lobbyists’, ‘the LGBT terror’, and the Archbishop of one of the biggest cities in the country, publicly calls LGBT people “a plague” during his sermons.

However, this campaign used a very specific phrase: ‘the LGBT ideology’. Fancy, I know. Basically, our President has been quoted saying that:

“LGBT aren’t people, but an ideology”.

I hope I don’t need to explain why this is dehumanising and insulting. Frankly, it doesn’t get any more blatant than that quote. In his program, Duda emphasises the protection of children from this very ideology - a strategy that hits very close with a recent propaganda film released in Russia.

I feel the need to stress how widespread and omnipresent homophobia and transphobia is in Poland. I might be wrong, but if a British, German or French politician spoke in parliament about LGBT people being “perverts” and “deviants” and having an demoralising influnce on people, they would be torn to shreds. Here, the only thing the offender gets, is a remark from the Deputy Marshal about this hate speech being ‘rude’.

This is just the situation in the public sphere though, I am genuinely more afraid of reading any Catholic-oriented media in my country, than I am of going to /pol/ - and not because 4chan alt-right is somehow mild compared to Polish religious television, but because the latter is overtly hateful and is too close for me to think of as abstract. I know that in dozens of small towns and villages in my country, every Sunday the children are forced to listen about how LGBT people are a blight to our society, and are going to end up in hell.

Finally, it’s important to note, that this kind of behaviour and widespread normalisation of hate speech has gotten significantly worse in the past year or so. There was hatred before, but it wasn’t nearly as institutionalised and indorsed in the media as it is now. However, this is my own observation, so don’t take it for granted.

The western media have demanded explanations from the President and criticised his blatantly queerphobic program, but he has responded to the accusations with the usual: “my words are put out of context” followed by a reinforcement of his earlier hateful claims. This post is long - perhaps too long - but I am deeply concerned for the safety and well-being of Polish people who are a part of this disciminated group.

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