Casimir Pulaski was Intersex: Reports

Casimir Pulaski was intersex, new reports say. See here and here. 

Poles Were the Most Vicious. You Ignorant Peasant

"Though I have Polish friends, there is no disputing that the Poles were some of, if not the, most vicious against Jews is WWII "

"As a Jew, it's hard not to react whenever it seems someone is making excuses for the viciousness of the Poles and all of their concentration/slave labor camps."

"Poles as just as murderous and brutal against Jews. And John  showed me that the majority of Poles gladly embraced Nazism and enjoyed the killing and brutality and still do. So it's hard to deny the brutal Polack stereotype."

Above are a few quotes in response to my essay "The Brute Polak Stereotype Strikes Again," which appeared here, on facebook, and at Front Page magazine, at the link, below.

The "ignorant peasant" comment appears in the comments section under the article at Front Page Magazine.  

The book has been out for many years. This blog has existed the entire time. Polonia has done virtually nothing to support the book, or to address the stereotype. And the brute Polak stereotype thrives, with no one, but us here, so much as trying to do anything about it. 

Shaking. My. Head. 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273292/brute-polak-stereotype-strikes-again-danusha-v-goska

Poland's Populists Targeting Gay People

Source

"Poland’s ruling party plays the LGBTQ card. Attacking gay rights could cement right-wing support while splitting the opposition." See here 

"Poland’s Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People" see here.

FYI: I support the fully humanity of homosexuals and I will not post, and don't want to receive, homophobic comments in the comments section. Thank you in advance. 

The Brute Polak Stereotype Strikes Again

The Brute Polak Stereotype Strikes Again

Our Shared Heroes and Martyrs Deserve, and Demand, Better of Us

A spectacular view splayed itself out before us like a brazen artist's model. High in the hills, the carefully cultivated backyard, with its quaint apple tree, was the last horizontal earth before a dizzying drop hundreds of feet to the flatlands. A carpet of lights twinkling in the darkness gave way to the lustrous waters of the San Francisco Bay. In the distance rose the power and poetry of the Golden Gate Bridge; beyond stretched the Pacific and no land till Japan. This evening's hostess, an heiress and descendant of minor European nobility, was so Politically Correct she had converted to Islam. And Quakerism. And Buddhism. And Neo-Paganism. I was dazzled. I had left my working class, New Jersey town with its domestic violence and cancer-causing toxic waste. I was among the elite.

Another guest, Neil, arrived. After learning my name, Neil told a series of off-color Polak jokes. For me, Neil's jokes were the sound of a needle's harsh scratch suddenly interrupting a recording of Mozart. How could he tell such ugly jokes at such an elegant gathering?

"Oh, come on," Neil snapped. "Polaks were never lynched." Neil elaborated. He was Jewish. He knew Polaks were the world's worst anti-Semites.

There were other events during my grad student career. Sometimes the bigot was a professor, and his bigotry slowed my advance. Such encounters informed my book, Bieganski, The Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.

The Brute Polak stereotype matters to you, including those of you who are not Polish or Jewish. Evidence of the Brute's necessity is his ubiquity. Stereotypes of Poles and other "Bohunks" – that is, Eastern European, Christian, peasant-descent populations – as brutes, as primitive, violent, ignorant and hateful, are found throughout Western cultures. They're in movies, television shows, comedy routines, fiction and non-fiction, scholarly and popular books, including books used to teach young people about the Holocaust, school curricula and museum exhibits. Even elites who would stop their fellows in mid-sentence if they ever uttered the n-word eagerly host anti-Polish material. Hundreds of examples of stereotypical depictions of Bohunk brutes can be found in my book and on my blog. If the Brute Polak didn't matter, he would not be everywhere.

Jan Peczkis' Reviews Removed from Amazon and Goodreads.

I learned not too long ago that Amazon erased every one of Jan Peczkis' book reviews.

Jan Peczkis published an astonishing number of book reviews, almost all of them reviews of interest to Polonians.

In fact, if you looked at some Polish-interest books that received almost no attention, but that should receive much attention, Jan Peczkis' review might be the ONLY review on the page.

Here's one such book: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski's "Samaritans: Heroes of the Holocaust." Now the only review for this excellent book, that tells riveting stories of Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, is mine. Jan Peczkis' review used to be there. Now it's gone.

After being completely deleted by Amazon, Jan Peczkis moved his reviews to Goodreads.

I learned within the past couple of days that Goodreads has also expunged Jan Peczkis' account.

So now the two biggest websites for book reviews no longer carry any of Jan Peczkis' reviews.

I don't agree with everything Jan Peczkis says, and when I disagree with him I tell him so. If there was objectionable material in a review by Jan Peczkis could Amazon or Goodreads not have addressed that with Jan Peczkis, rather than deleting every one of his reviews and banning him from further use of the platform? This is a real question. 

In any case, this erasing of Jan Peczkis' reviews should be a reminder: when you read a worthy book on a topic of interest to Polonians, please, please, post a review on Amazon and Goodreads.

Further, if you think Amazon or Goodreads was right to delete all of his reviews, please make your case in the comments section. This is worth talking about. 

Jack the Ripper Was a Polish Jew: New DNA Analysis

Creepy. Read the story here.

Evidently many who study Jack the Ripper are not convinced. Read more here.

Jak Rozpoznac Zyda / How to Recognize a Jew: Polish Anti-Semites Strike Again

The print publication, available nationally, "Tylko Polska" ran the other day, the headline "How to Recognize a Jew." This is making news around the world. People are interpreting it to mean that Poles are all anti-Semites. That Poles are condemning this headline is getting lost. This is being widely covered. One can read more here.

From the above linked article:

After a moment of reflection, the director of the CIS, however, announced on Twitter that the Chancellery of the Sejm would apply to remove from the set of press provided by RUCH SA a periodical with anti-Semitic articles. "At the same time, a list of titles, which are made available by the colporteur in the Parliament, will be thoroughly verified," he added.