[The European Conservative] When a Culture War Becomes a Truth War

Facts are being spun — and non-arguments are being lazily assembled — to score partisan points.

“I have a Polish gay friend who is a second-class citizen”. Uttered lightly between 2015 and 2023, the statement may go down west of the Oder-Neisse line, Poland’s Western frontier, as no worse than an anodyne boutade. If deployed around the country’s last legislative race back in October to score outrage points against the social conservatism of the defeated Law and Justice (PiS) government, the argument attains the persuasive power of a five-year-old’s temper tantrum. If indeed homosexuality is a category PiS has discriminated against by law in its eight years in office, then that “second-class citizenship” should correlate with the entire demographic being targeted. If true, this would turn any individual testimony, on either side, into a statistical irrelevance — one that hinders, not aids, the rhetorical frame into which that statistic is slotted.

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