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1. solidarity with ppl in rojava (paulfree14)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2018 09:08:46 PST solidarity with ppl in rojava

   0_o in #poland it's now a crime to argue that poland took part in the holacaust.
   penelty is a fine and/or up to 3 years prison.

   (exeption until now are art and science)

   source:
   https://rdl.de/beitrag/focus-europa-nachrichten-am-montag-29-januar-2018-um-930
   #antifa

   • rysiek ✅ (rysiek)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2018 09:29:44 PST rysiek ✅

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     @paulfree14 yeah, it's fucked up. Disclaimer: I'm Polish.

     So here's the thing: on one hand, there *is* an issue of people calling the Nazi camps (like Auschwitz) "Polsh concentration camps". This is annoying to Poles, and for good reasons.

     However, there *were* Poles who collaborated with the Nazis, for various reasons, in various ways. There were Poles complicit in the Holocaust:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmalcownik

     And we should own up to that.

   • rysiek ✅ (rysiek)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2018 09:31:33 PST rysiek ✅

     in reply to

     @paulfree14 obviously, rewriting the history with a law is not the way to go. I am ashamed that this is happening. Just like I am annoyed and frustrated I hear about "Polish concentration camps".

     History is complicated, it's rarely black-and-white.