Comments on: Candidate Biden’s recent offensive statements concerning Poland and Americans of Polish descent https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/candidate-bidens-recent-offensive-statements-concerning-poland-and-americans-of-polish-descent/ simpleblogdescriptionhellog Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Gordon Black https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/candidate-bidens-recent-offensive-statements-concerning-poland-and-americans-of-polish-descent/#comment-541 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:25:18 +0000 http://poloniainstitute.net/?p=5335#comment-541 Thank you, ledifnia. Indeed, only Joe Biden can correct this. Although Tom Perez and the Democratic National Committee bear responsibility as well. This matter will have to be pressed and settled.

]]> By: ledifnia https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/candidate-bidens-recent-offensive-statements-concerning-poland-and-americans-of-polish-descent/#comment-529 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:19:32 +0000 http://poloniainstitute.net/?p=5335#comment-529 Mr. Black, even if Mr. Biden meant to criticize Democrats for abandoning their base supporters, which is the working class with the Poles and Greeks among them, the way he chose to characterize that group of people, which is as the not- smart ones was crass, tacky and offensive. It seems that that’s exactly what he meant to say about that group of people when juxtaposing them with those he considered the “smart” ones, the ones he was addressing , the ones he had in front of them. Mr. Biden has a track record of similarly crass and offensive statement, eg. about Black people and recently about our troops.

]]> By: Gordon Black https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/candidate-bidens-recent-offensive-statements-concerning-poland-and-americans-of-polish-descent/#comment-526 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 03:31:13 +0000 http://poloniainstitute.net/?p=5335#comment-526 As you write, Joe Biden does not number Polish Americans among “the really smart people.” But “really smart” is a bitter sarcasm from Biden against those haughty people who dismiss the Poles, Greeks, and other hard-working Americans. He is saying that “you, the really smart people” are truly stupid for abandoning the traditional democratic base. Read again the quote from the Dec. 16 interview with the NYT editorial board:

“Look what started to seep in, beginning and probably even with candidates during our administration. We stopped showing up at the Polish American Club. We stopped showing up, and we all went to you, the really smart people. We had a new kind of coalition we were putting together. College-educated women and college men and boom, boom, boom and so on.”

That’s what began to “seep in,” the arrogant and misconceived, “boom, boom, boom and so on.” He is deploring that the Democratic party has abandoned its base. So Joe is off the hook for that one, and should not be misunderstood on that point.

However, what is grave and needs correction is his later Town Hall remark of Oct. 15: “You see what is happening from Belarus through Poland and Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world. Our current president supports all thugs in the world.”

In response, several Polish American organizations combined to submit the following query on Oct. 26:

Mr. Tom Perez, Chair
Democratic National Committee

In his Town Hall appearance of October 15, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed to include Poland as a nation having a “totalitarian regime.” We ask you: Is it true that Poland has a “totalitarian regime?”

We await your response.

Andrzej Prokopczuk, President of Polish American Congress, NCAL;
Wojciech Jesman, President of Polish American Congress, SCAL and President of Polish American Strategic Initiative;
Stanislaw Sliwowski, President of Coalition of Polish Americans;
Agata Marriott, President of Polonia Institute.

The matter may not be settled tonight, but it is to be settled. The National Office of the Polish American Congress also posted this letter regarding the point at issue:

http://www.pac1944.org/news/request-that-vice-president-biden-apologize/

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