Hidden Purpose

Although Poland did not have a colony, fresh narratives propose that our ancestors mentally supported colonialism – and his echoes supposedly proceed to this day.



"Colonelism? This does not apply to us" – Magda Bodzan, an anthropologist and trainer of global education, gave specified a perverse title to her elucubration, in which she proves that she is the opposite. The text (financed by the EEA Funds) was created as part of the task “We Include fresh planet Narrations” and is intended to... implicate us. due to the fact that even though we didn't colonize any overseas areas, we were mentally annexationists. The imperialist impulses of our ancestors proceed to this day as “ideological” colonialism. "It manifests itself in our relation to animals, nature and its resources, which are thought of in terms of possession, conquest, submission and exploitation. It is visible in the attitudes of Poles towards migrants whose presence questions clear national divisions, and towards LGBT+ people who deny the binary, colonial thought of gender" – says Magda Bodzan.

Demagogical beating

You want to feel like a actual European, show yourself for the expansionist aspirations of our antennas who were delirious about the colony in Cameroon, Togo, Angola, Madagascar. Does conscience not bother you erstwhile you usage goods from the countries of the “global South”? You're a neocolonialist. specified a demagogue beating gets us more and more often. Older generations in their heads are hard to reassemble, but young minds can be handled. Brainwashing takes place openly and subliminally.

It began with attacks on Stasia and Nel, the protagonists of a known novel, which progressives want to throw out of school reading or at least powerfully cut off. Children can easy explain that Kali is not black at all, but blue. The negro Bambo was evicted from schools, due to the fact that although he may have been diligent, he nevertheless learned from the Negro reading. For the advanced classes and adults, it is essential to interpret the collections of objects from Africa. We have fewer and not the highest class in Poland, but the expositions and their descriptions require ideological correction. An example is the fresh manager of the Warsaw Ethnographic Museum, art historian Magdalena Wróblewski, specializing in decolonization issues.

The exhibition “Bleaching” undermines our innocence: we have sinned with the thought and dream of colonies. Being the pariahs of Europe, we ourselves have repaired the ego, decaling Western patterns, including the sense of superiority of the “white man” towards Africans (and another dark-skinned peoples). The 19th-century expeditions of Polish travelers to Africa – Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński and Leopold Janikowski – are now a origin for shame: the plans of the warriors covered the intentions of creating a colony there. Never head that it was about creating an oasis, a substitute country for Poles under the boot of the invaders. Shame.


Hidden Purpose

There's a hidden goal in putting us in 1 line with real expansionists. We should be punished for the colonies, even though we didn't have them, but we wanted to. This is why the EU is backing various awareness maneuvers to subdue its objectives to people susceptible to indoctrination: we are to welcome migrants who are being pushed to us without murmuring. A common wine, a common problem.

[Felieton comes from Solidarity Week 19/2025]



Written by Monika Małkowska







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