‘LGBT-FREE ZONE’ Set To Be Distributed To Businesses In Poland
A Polish news magazine has announced plans to distribute stickers proclaiming an “LGBT-free zone” to its readers, reports CNN.
The far-right weekly publication Gazeta Polska said it intends to include the stickers, which feature an image of a black cross over a Pride flag alongside the inflammatory slogan, in its next issue.
The stickers have sparked international outrage and was criticized by the US Ambassador to Poland.
“I am disappointed and concerned that some groups use stickers to promote hatred and intolerance,” Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher said on Twitter Thursday. “We respect freedom of speech, but we must stand together on the side of values such as diversity and tolerance.”
On Friday, Piotr Muller, a spokesman for the country’s ruling Law and Justice Party, issued a rebuke to Mosbacher, saying her statement was “unnecessary.”
“It seems to me that this is not an issue related to relations between America and Poland,” the AFP news agency reported him as saying.
Jestem rozczarowana i zaniepokojona tym, że pewne grupy wykorzystują naklejki do promowania nienawiści i nietolerancji. Szanujemy wolność słowa, ale musimy wspólnie stać po stronie takich wartości jak różnorodność i tolerancja. #WszyscyJesteśmyRówni
— Georgette Mosbacher (@USAmbPoland) July 18, 2019
Pavel Rabiej, deputy president of Warsaw and a centrist, said on Twitter that he would file a complaint with the prosecutor’s office.
“The Germans created zones free of Jews,” Rabiej tweeted.
Jutro złożę w tej sprawie zawiadomienie do prokuratury. Niemieccy faszyści tworzyli strefy wolne od Żydów. Apartheid – od czarnych. Jak widać tradycja znajduje godnych naśladowców, tym razem w Polsce, pod parasolem @pisorgpl i biskupów. pic.twitter.com/h2HpJZow8A
— Pawel Rabiej (@PawelRabiej) July 17, 2019
Instagram blocked a picture of the sticker according to Gazeta Polska editor Tomasz Sakiewicz.
“Censorship was typical of Nazism, imposing ideology, too,” Sakiewicz told another paper.
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