[Human Events] Poland Is Not Homophobic

Opposing violence, the desecration of monuments, and existing school curricula doesn’t make one a homophobe

Jorge González-Gallarza
1 min readAug 22, 2020
LGTB activists march in Warsaw against the detention of Malgorzata Szutowicz aka "Margot"

The dashboard camera faces down a side road where a man, who is recording the scene too, is confronted by a pair vying to snatch his phone away. After several failed attempts, a third assailant erupts, punching the man in the head and wrestling him to the ground. The video gets worse in the full cut. The van, where the dashcam was placed, had been previously assaulted by cyclists, and the three attackers in the video were actually part of a larger crowd of militants that had descended from the building they were squatting in to halt its passage. The mob bashed in its side-view mirrors, vandalized it with spray-painting, and even ripped off the license plate.

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Jorge González-Gallarza

A writer in Paris, Jorge's work has featured in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Conservative, The National Interest and elsewhere.