Yesterday we saw two scenes that clearly show the hypocrisy of the world of ‘smiling Poland’. The same world that those in power want to impose on us as the only possible model of life in this country.
In the Sejm, several parliamentarians, together with Equality Minister Katarzyna Kotula and activists, danced to protest against violence against women. Let us leave aside the question of the meaning of such actions and their real impact on reducing violence against women.
It’s about something else.
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The fact that this “disco” played in the Polish parliament on Ash Wednesday. On the day when Lent begins for Catholics: a period of fasting, prayer and silent self-reflection before Easter. So what, you might ask? How can dancing, and for a good purpose, bother anyone? The Sejm – this “someone” will continue – is a secular institution and, like all other political institutions, must be religiously neutral.
That’s true.
However, there is a big difference between religious neutrality and offending someone’s religious feelings or simply not caring about them.
The fact that in the parliament of a predominantly Catholic country, the state of which is simply impossible to understand without Catholicism, deafening disco music sounded on Ash Wednesday is the political, or rather cultural, message that the organizers of this event wanted to convey. If this were not the case, they could have chosen another day for their action.
But they didn’t do that precisely to make the message louder, which is nothing less than: “Now us”! Let us remind you that the permission was granted by the Chairman of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, who declares himself a Catholic.
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Wroński ignores the journalist
The second scene took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the press conference. The Republika TV team was ignored by Interior Ministry spokesperson Paweł Wroński, who forbade journalist Michał Jelonek from asking a question to Minister Radosław Sikorski. When Jelonek, who came to the fore, asked Wroński “whether the norm will be a situation where one editorial office will ask three questions and its editorial office will ask no questions”, he heard from a former journalist of “Gazeta Wyborcza”:
Sir, this is a good idea.
The spokesperson of a state institution, also paid by the viewers of Republika TV, which Wroński makes fun of, behaves as if he still works at GW.
Getting used to arrogance after the experience of working for private media cannot happen when you act as a press spokesperson who should be at the disposal of all citizens and all media.
Why does Vronsky behave like this?
Because he knows it can be done and that there will be no consequences. His predecessor Łukasz Jasina wrote well on social media. If he had behaved like this towards TVN journalists, the media would have destroyed him within five minutes.
Two typical scenes from the life of ‘laughing Poland’. And the question that comes to my mind:
Do you really have to be so bold?
Source: wPolityce