Poland’s Holocaust Blame Bill
The Times editorial board is not happy.
Neither is the Israeli government, though both Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post insist that, while Poles certainly participated in the Holoaust, that does not mean Poland did.
All the same, anti-Semitism remains rife in Poland, and it seems highly unlikely to me that there is much support for this law except among anti-Semites.
It is a sort of mini Holocaust denial, a feature of the rise of ethnic nationalism all over Europe.
And it is backlash provoked and inspired by the hate speech legislation of the cultural left all over Europe, itself begun by criminalization of Holocaust denial.
Nobody is saying it, but this is part of the worldwide decay of popular, and even elite, support for liberal democratic norms of government, the purest expressions of which were and are Enlightenment republicanism and the states that remain most shaped by it.
As is contemporary authoritarian leftism, to which the hateful, shocking, and profoundly anti-liberal concept of Political Correctness is absolutely essential, with its favored victim groups, its weaponizations of history, its guilt-trip politics, and its blatantly biased definitions of racism and sexism.
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