Protests erupted on Friday in Warsaw, Krakow, Lublin, and Wroclaw following the arrest of transgender activist Malgorzata Szutowicz, known best as “Margot.”
Half a million have signed lets get to a million! Change.org petition Abolish current anti-LGBT laws and protect LGBT people in Poland, call the EU to intervene
THIS IS THE QUEER PROTEST IN WARSAW POLAND RIGHT NOW!! This is incredible @stopbzdurom – the global queer community is watching and with you! #stopbzdurom #PolishStonewall #margotzamurem VIDEO @apileofowls on insta pic.twitter.com/sxUDl10Kgc
— Adam Eli (@aewerner) August 8, 2020
Szutowicz a member of stopbzdurom (Stop the Nonsense) enraged conservitives by draping Pride Flags over monuments and cutting the tires of a van with slogans accusing LGBT people of pedophilia. She is being held in pretrial detention for two months according to Action News Jaxsonville.
welcome to Poland 🙂 #LGBTtoLudzie #Poland #Policja pic.twitter.com/TOBm0p0GxR
— Amelia♡ (@AmeliaBanaszak) August 8, 2020
The protests come amid an intensifying standoff in Poland between the LGBT rights movement and the conservative government, which has declared it an alien, dangerous “ideology.” President Andrzej Duda, who was sworn in for a second term Thursday, won re-election on a strong anti-LGBT platform, and social tensions have been rising. MP’s protested at Duda’s swearing in by wearing colors of the Pride Flag.
MPs in #Poland’s parliament turned up to the inauguration of homophobic #AndrzejDuda wearing the rainbow colours in solidarity with the #LGBT+ community. The fight isn’t over but love will win ?️?✌?❤️ pic.twitter.com/YE2emOxdwh
— Paul Usher (@PaulUsher) August 6, 2020
This is #Poland; 74 years after the Warsaw Uprising. The Nazis are back. ? pic.twitter.com/7HAt8mInKO
— Philipp Brokes (@philbrokes) August 1, 2020
Dunja Mijatovic, the human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, the continent’s top human rights body, called Saturday for her immediate release.
“Order to detain her for 2 months sends very chilling signal for #FreedomOfSpeech & #LGBT rights in #Poland,” Mijatovic tweeted.
I call for immediate release of LGBT activist Margot from .@stopbzdurom detained yesterday for blocking an anti-LGBT hate van & putting rainbow flags on #Warsaw monuments.Order to detain her for 2 months sends very chilling signal for #FreedomOfSpeech & #LGBT rights in #Poland
— Commissioner for Human Rights (@CommissionerHR) August 8, 2020
Christopher Browning, one of America’s most eminent and well-respected historians of the Holocaust would disagree.
Worth a read:
A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17940610/trump-hitler-history-historian
Seriously, anybody who equates Nazi Germany with the US has got to be entirely ignorant of history. Nobody is asking you to board trains for work in the East, or any other direction if it comes to that. Trump does not have “Gestapo”, and talk of eliminating anyone is just a little too far to the left of common sense.
The fact is all over the world we are going to have to start getting violent against these fascist conservative nutjobs.
In Poland, in America, etc.
We try to be nice and hope for change and it gets us nowhere. MLK was a peaceful man and what did that get him? The jews 85 years ago were peaceful and what did that get them?
I will NOT peacefully board the trains for “work in the east”. I will however eliminate a few of trumps gestapo before they kill me.