tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post607388975781858551..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Why Stereotype Poles? Why Distort WW II History? Here's Why.D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-19866644649660186622011-04-06T06:24:17.884-04:002011-04-06T06:24:17.884-04:00Conformer with a Cause, thank you for sharing that...Conformer with a Cause, thank you for sharing that, which I find quite shocking. These lies never fail to shock. What you say is exactly correct -- the article would have been unchanged had she told the truth about the Nazi poster. She equated Poles with Nazis in a way that was utterly gratuitous to her main point. That demonstrates how important the Bieganski / Brute Polak image has become to Western culture, including pop culture, journalism, and academics. <br /><br />I sincerely thank you for sharing that here.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-6692467032405640722011-04-05T21:50:51.366-04:002011-04-05T21:50:51.366-04:00Talking about distorting WW2 history to sledge Pol...Talking about distorting WW2 history to sledge Poles, I stumbled across an interesting historical distortion in the UK's Guardian newspaper in an article on dirt.... <br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/02/dirt-cleanliness-sanitation-suzanne-moore?commentpage=2<br /><br />In it Suzanne Moore wrote<br /><br />" In pre-war Poland, antisemitism became medicialised. Jews were associated with disease. One shocking image reads: "Jews are lice, they cause typhus." Ethnic cleansing depends precisely on defining a whole swath of people as "matter out of place", as a dirty disease that needs to be eradicated."<br /><br /><br /><br />The poster as demonstrated here <br /><br />http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007822<br /><br />and as pointed in a number of comments under the article was of course a Nazi German-published poster in 1941 intended to instill a fear of Jews among Christian Poles.<br /><br />Intriguingly neither the Guardian newspaper nor Suzanne Moore have yet bothered to post a correction. Suzanne Moore has an article every Saturday - it will be interesting to see if she is a big enough person to at least include a small comment admitting she got it wrong.<br /><br />I found this interesting because Suzanne Moore could have got her facts right and still not affected the whole point of her article in anyway.Conformer with a Causenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-69129342975877677682011-03-30T16:22:33.453-04:002011-03-30T16:22:33.453-04:00Danusha, once again, a great blog entry by you. I...Danusha, once again, a great blog entry by you. I like how you ended a very sad story on a positive note. "People of good faith who want a better tomorrow" must indeed fight against any stereotyping. Taking a stand in these matters is outside the comfort zone for many people. Reminding us of the example of the courage of those like Sendler and Korczak helps put this all in perspective and may help some get beyond the comfort zone.William H. Szychnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-65354040376507902022011-03-30T10:56:58.630-04:002011-03-30T10:56:58.630-04:00So much hatred over so many years. It does no one...So much hatred over so many years. It does no one any good. The author of "They Were Just People" should examine his conscience.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.com