I predict Polish emigration to the Western Europe is going to intensify. This time it won’t be mostly economical emigration, but also political one. Poland is changing into sea of absurd and totalitarian state.
Polish far right - only true patriots - parties in rule wasting our time and money for hunting communist, finding scapegoats like one of the best Polish cardiologist, who successfully did many transplantations of heart. He was accused of killing patients and corruption. He was instantly arrested and accused by Minister of Justice - Ziobro - of being murderer. The secret investigation case got a codename “Mengele” (after Joseph Mengele - German SS doctor who was in charge of brutal experiments and killing thousands of prisoners of death camp Auschwitz). Fortunately judge didn’t agree with murder accusations and doctor was released from jail.
Couple of days ago Polish media was electrified by the statement of Childrights ombudsman - Ewa Sowińska, who accused UK’s children program Teletubies of promoting homosexual behaviour. She pointed that Tinky Winky has a woman handbag, and it can indicate his homosexual orientation. To be honest, I would ban Teletubies due to the fact that it is the most stupid TV program I have ever seen, but I would never took it as a secret promotion of homosexual behaviour, though I am rather a little homophobic person. I have long hair and it can be also regarded by some bigots as a promotion of homosexual style of life (since long hair should be a hairstyle of women, and shorthair of men).
Yesterday, Polish Ministry of Education announced the obligatory reading list for primary and high schools. They baned many of the classics both Polish and non-national writers, e.g. Gombrowicz, Witkacy, Johan Wolfgang Goethe, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad or Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski (World Apart - an excellent book describing life in Soviet gulag) and Dostoevsky.
So… prepare for another wave of emigration. This time it is going to be a migration of Polish cultural elite, or at least open minded people with wide horizons.
Is Poland going insane?
I can’t pretend to know Gombrowicz, Witkacy or Herling-Grudzinski, but banning Goethe, Kafka and Conrad is absurd.
Banning the Teletubies I agree with ;o) Maybe they should ban Barney too. They wreck my head!
But if Ewa Sowińska even mentions banning The Bear in the Big Blue House or Bob the Builder I will kick her ass.
Bock: Polish government (I mean parties in rule) has gone insane long time before the last elections.
The situation in Poland reminds me Germany in 1933.
Primal, here is some information about Polish writers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombrowicz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaw_Herling_Grudzinski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkacy
There’s a story in the Irish Times today about a Polish doctor who was raided while he was performing an abortion on an Irish woman, as if it’s not already horrible enough. The report doesn’t give much detail about why they were there. I wonder if he really was corrupt or the law just didn’t want him performing abortions?
Poland has more problems than they cope with without creating this ridiculous absurdity about the Teletubbies. It all smacks of political chicanery
Poland has more problems than they can cope with. Yet, the custodians of morality have started this ridiculous nonsense about the Teletubbies. It smacks of political chicanery.
Tellytubies are loved by little children;they speak a baby language which pre-school children love.It probably is impossible for adults to share this comfort feeling babies/children get from the TV programs and the little toys. It is a shame to put other meaning into childrens programs. I don’t understand it.
Primal Sneeze Says:
Banning the Teletubies I agree with ;o) Maybe they should ban Barney too. They wreck my head!
Add Fireman Sam to the banned list please - my son has us driven around the twist with it!
Mac - From chatting with my Polish friend there is much more going on than just what you’ve mentioned. I must try follow this more closely.
Such totalitarianism will set Poland back years. Economically as well as culturally. Not only will the best people leave, but foreign companies will be reluctant to invest because they will view the country as unstable.