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[–] Nacktmull 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah! It´s so much fun! Source: I spent half of my childhood and teenage years in Austria and was bullied and mobbed constantly, simply for being of german heritage and they did not care at all that I was born in 1981, several decades after the Nazi regime had ended. With Poland having been invaded by the Wehrmacht and not "angeschlossen" like Austria, it´s only natural that the rejection is even deeper. We must also consider that, while we were born long after the Nazi regime ended, there are still elderly people in Poland, who witnessed the war horrors and the atrocities of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust. All these horrible things were done mostly by Germans. That is why I, while not feeling responsible on one hand, can also not judge people for still being angry about those horrible crimes. The thing I really condemn though is when populist politicians instrumentalize these emotions for their own advantage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get being angry. I don't get (or accept) blaming everything that's shit. Instead of working together in union they stir up bullshit like that constantly to keep their audience entertained. And that I'm angry about. Get your shit together and let's move on a as a union.

[–] Nacktmull 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a humanist I personally agree with that but PiS voters -who are mostly nationalists, similar to AfD voters in Germany- are a whole different story ...