In Poland’s capital, Warsaw, an American tourist harassed an Indian man on the basis of race. Users claim that the undated video, which is now trending on social media, was possibly filmed outside Warsaw’s Atrium Reduta Shopping Center.
News18 was unable to independently confirm the legitimacy of the footage. The individual in the video is an American tourist, according to the Twitter user who uploaded it.
In the four-minute video, the guy rushes and approaches the Indian man who appears to be acting normally while striking an intimidating stance.
Without asking for permission, the man starts recording him.
He is being harassed by the man, who keeps asking him offensive questions with racial overtones. The subject of the video could be heard asking why he was being recorded without his permission and telling the shooter to stop, but the shooter persisted.
“What brought you to Poland? There are too many of you folks in America (there). Are you able to invade Poland? Are you able to invade Poland? Why don’t you go back to your home nation? The man said, which was audible.
What about returning to India? he declared.
The guy then claims that white people’s labor is being exploited by Indians residing overseas, and urges them to create their own nation. He said, “Why are you acting like a parasite?”
The current assault on Indian expatriates occurs not long after several Indian ladies encountered racial abuse while out to dinner with friends in Plano, Texas.
Viktor Orban, the racist Hungarian PM who is increasingly isolated in the European Union over his “racist” anti-immigration policies, dismantling of rule of law safeguards, and opposition to further Russian sanctions, is likely to receive a very warm welcome when he takes the stage at a right-wing annual conservative conference in the US.
Ahead of his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, Orban met with former US President Donald Trump, describing him as “our important ally”.
Trump, who is believed to be gearing up for a second run for the Oval Office, said he and the racist Hungarian PM “discussed many interesting topics — few people know as much about what is going on today.”
For Orban, the visit to the US comes after sparking outrage in Europe over comments he delivered during his annual address at the Tusvanyos Summer University in Romania on 30 July.
Orban had praised what he called the “unmixed Hungarian race” and denounced countries where European and non-European people intermingle as “no longer nations”.
The racist Hungarian PM defended his stance again last Thursday during a visit to Austria, arguing that “I can sometimes express myself in a way that can be misunderstood” and that his comments were not about racism but about “cultural differences” and preserving the Hungarian culture “as it is now”.
Leaders of the political groups in the European parliaments nonetheless branded his comments as “openly racist” in a joint statement issued on Saturday.
The EU triggered the Article 7 procedure — the so-called nuclear option– against Hungary in September 2018 but leaders in the Council have not yet voted to determine whether there is “a clear risk of a serious breach” of the EU’s common values, which could see Hungary stripped of its voting right.
Orban’s mounting opposition to sanctions against Russia has also resulted in a cooling of relations with traditional EU allies Poland and Czechia.
Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experiences of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder.
With short video messages recounting their stories, participants in the #ItStartedWithWords campaign hope to educate people about how the Nazis embarked on an insidious campaign to dehumanize and marginalize Jews — years before death camps were established to carry out murder on an industrial scale.
Six individual videos and a compilation were being released Thursday over Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, followed by one video per week. The posts include a link to a webpage with more testimonies and teaching materials.
“There aren’t too many of us going out and speaking anymore, we’re few in numbers but our voices are heard,” Sidney Zoltak, an 89-year-old survivor from Poland, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Montreal.
“We are not there to tell them stories that we read or that we heard — we are telling facts, we are telling what happened to us and to our neighbors and to our communities. And I think that this is the strongest possible way.”
Once the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933, its leaders immediately set about making good on their pledges to “Aryanize” the country, segregating and marginalizing the Jewish population.
The Nazi government encouraged the boycott of Jewish businesses, which were daubed with the Star of David or the word “Jude” — Jew. Propaganda posters and films suggested Jews were “vermin,” comparing them to rats and insects, while new laws were passed to restrict all aspects of Jews’ lives.
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Pay discrimination only explains part of the gender wage gap
Pay discrimination only explains part of the gender wage gap
In Poland, women earn 91 cents to every dollar a man earns. In Israel and the United States, it’s 81 cents. In South Korea, it’s just 65 cents.
When you hear about the gender wage gap, you might think it’s the result of overt pay discrimination between women and men. “Equal pay for equal work” is a common rallying cry. But in reality, discrimination only accounts for a small fraction of this disparity. The rest of the story is much more complicated. The gender wage gap is about choice and opportunity. It’s affected by race. And it’s rooted in our social norms about women and family and motherhood. That makes it much, much harder to solve.
So why are women around the world paid so much less than men? And what can countries do to close the gap?
In Poland, women earn 91 cents to every dollar a man earns. In Israel and the United States, it’s 81 cents. In South Korea, it’s just 65 cents. When you hear about the gender wage gap, you might think it’s the result of overt pay discrimination between women and men. “Equal pay for equal work” is a common rallying cry. But in reality, discrimination only accounts for a small fraction of this disparity. The rest of the story is much more complicated. The gender wage gap is about choice and opportunity. It’s affected by race. And it’s rooted in our social norms about women and family and motherhood. That makes it much, much harder to solve. So why are women around the world paid so much less than men? And what can countries do to close the gap? So why are women around the world paid so much less than men? And what can countries do to close the gap?
No place for racism in Poland, says PM after attack on teen
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has condemned a suspected racist attack on a 14-year-old girl in Warsaw, saying: “There is no place for racism in Poland
“The attack on a girl because of the colour of her skin deserves the strongest condemnation. We will do everything to make Poland safe for everyone,” Morawiecki wrote on Twitter.
A girl of Turkish descent was attacked in Warsaw on Thursday. Media reported that the assailant shouted: “Poland for Poles.”
Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak called the assault “a scandalous situation”.
Błaszczak said he had ordered Poland’s police chief to personally oversee a probe into the incident.
The girl is not believed to have been seriously injured.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has condemned a suspected racist attack on a 14-year-old girl in Warsaw, saying: “There is no place for racism in Poland “The attack on a girl because of the colour of her skin deserves the strongest condemnation. We will do everything to make Poland safe for everyone,” Morawiecki wrote on Twitter.A girl of Turkish descent was attacked in Warsaw on Thursday. Media reported that the assailant shouted: “Poland for Poles.”Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak called the assault “a scandalous situation”.Błaszczak said he had ordered Poland’s police chief to personally oversee a probe into the incident.The girl is not believed to have been seriously injured.Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has condemned a suspected racist attack on a 14-year-old girl in Warsaw, saying: “There is no place for racism in Poland “The attack on a girl because of the colour of her skin deserves the strongest condemnation. We will do everything to make Poland safe for everyone,” Morawiecki wrote on Twitter.A girl of Turkish descent was attacked in Warsaw on Thursday. Media reported that the assailant shouted: “Poland for Poles.