Polish president proposes law jailing officials who question his powers

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Polish president proposes law jailing officials who question his powers - Lemmy.World

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I mean, Poland has been clearly fascist for a pretty long time now, openly attacking minorities, but no one gives a shit because they are part of the EU so they are fine.

Sorry, but that’s just bs…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland

Together with the figure of the “Polish Mother”, abortion restrictions are used to encourage women to have many children. This ideology reinforces the view that women’s place is in the home

From 2024, Poland also provides mandatory firearms training for pupils in primary and secondary schools

Poland is one of the most religious countries in Europe

Poland also has a significant rural population: about 40%, which is deeply conservative

According to ILGA-Europe’s 2025 report, the status of LGBTQ rights in Poland is among the worst of the European Union countries No current protections for health services and hate crimes exist conservative president Andrzej Duda, who previously described the LGBT movement as “a foreign ideology” and comparing it to indoctrination in the Soviet Union Poland has not implemented the contracting or recognition of same-sex unions, although it is obliged to do so by judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

In August 2020, the Polish Episcopal Conference released a document which recommended the creation of counseling centres “to help people who want to regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation”. It insists that the scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective and potentially harmful to be “political correctness”

An Ipsos survey in October 2019 found that a majority of Polish men under 40 believe that “the LGBT movement and gender ideology” is the “biggest threat facing them in the 21st century”

According to a 2011 poll, 47% of Poles stated that “too many Muslims live in Poland” Since the Muslim community in Poland is small (0.1% of the population) the situation has been described as “Islamophobia without Muslims”.

On public television, guests have spoken of Muslims as “uncivilized” and a threat to “European and Christian values” and have described them as “violent”: as “Jihadists”, “terrorists”, and “rapists”.

Do you want more? There’s plenty.

If Poland tried to join the EU right now it would never succeed.

Abortion in Poland - Wikipedia

He’s talking about the “no one gives a shit because they’re part of the EU” line. If you think that you haven’t been paying attention
Well did you see my list? And are there any consequences, is Poland forced to change by Europe or threatened to be kicked out? No, because no one cares. As I said, Turkiye is unable to join the EU because of things that are basically the same as Poland, but one is told that they need to improve, the other is not.

Your list was kind of shit.

The actual fascist stuff you listed was very recent, and the rest is conflating a bunch of less desirable things like religion and conservative farmers with outright fascism.