{"id":33889,"date":"2018-02-10T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=33889"},"modified":"2018-02-10T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:35:20","slug":"what-is-crucial-to-understand-about-the-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=33889","title":{"rendered":"\u201eWhat is crucial to understand about the controversy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2000, in Bloomington, Indiana, I was asking Jewish people what they thought of Poles and Poland. I was researching what would become my prize-winning book, \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bieganski-Stereotype-Polish-Jewish-Relations-American\/dp\/1936235153\"><strong>Bieganski, the Brute Polak Stereotype<\/strong><\/a>\u201d. My informants were nice people living in a self-consciously progressive university town. They insisted that they would never tell a dumb Polak joke. Then I would ask them a hypothetical question. &#8222;You need brain surgery. You have a choice between two doctors whose qualifications, on paper, are all but identical. One is named Dr. Smith. One is named Dr. Kowalski. Which doctor do you choose?&#8221;<br \/>\nTheir jaws would drop. They suddenly had to confront their own prejudices, prejudices that they did not know they had.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nazism was the product of highly educated, modern people. (\u2026) This simple fact \u2013 that Nazism was a product of shiny and clean university classrooms and books written, edited, and published by the best-educated people \u2013 is just about impossible to confront for those who embrace the Brute Polak stereotype.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Danusha V. Goska \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/269267\/polands-new-law-criminalizing-speech-about-danusha-v-goska\"><strong>POLAND&#8217;S NEW LAW CRIMINALIZING SPEECH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, in Bloomington, Indiana, I was asking Jewish people what they thought of Poles and Poland. I was researching what would become my prize-winning book, \u201eBieganski, the Brute Polak Stereotype\u201d. My informants were nice people living in a self-consciously progressive university town. They insisted that they would never tell a dumb Polak joke. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6123,5837,5818,5831,5782,405],"tags":[6125,6124,3213,5251,6126,1955,6127],"class_list":["post-33889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6123","category-5837","category-5818","category-iluzje","category-martyrologie","category-the-best-of-this-old-mundp-page","tag-bieganski","tag-danusha-v-goska","tag-sasiedzi","tag-stereotypy","tag-the-brute-polak-stereotype","tag-umysl","tag-uprzedzenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33892,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33889\/revisions\/33892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}