by Aaron Simon 
When Greenpointers receivedĀ a tip last week that someone was allegedly passing out flyers identifying hate symbols following the discovery of hate stickers on McGuiness Blvd, we posted an image of the flyer to Instagram and began to receive many messages from local Polish residents that the Kotwica symbol should not be placed in the same category as the SwastikaĀ and other hateā¦
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Anna Smolenska is the person who created the symbol of PW ( Polska-WalczÄ ca / Fighting Poland) She was a resistance fighter that was murdered by the German Nazis in Auschwitz along with 3 of her family members. Her father was tortured to death by the German Nazis. The “Kotwica” sign was and it still is a symbol of fight against the nazis. It is ridicules, insulting and disrespectful to call it any other way and especially to put it in the same bag with nazi symbols. The 6 Million Poles that perished during WW II fighting against the two evils of the 21 Century ( Nazis & Communists) deserve their memory to be respected. The person who passed that flyers and suggested that “Kotwica” is a nazi symbol actually profanated and disrespected the memory of all those victims. Instead of fighting the neo-nazis – they disrispected their victims – that is wrong and it should be condemned. The “Kotwica” Symbol is a source of a great pride for Polish people and also a reminder of the great tragedy of WW2 as well as great herosim of the people who fought against pure evil – it should be honored and respected.
Okay, so by that logic, the alleged and allegedly fascist appropriators of the symbol justifies the association with fascism. Just like that. Great. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to go find some fascists and tell them to appropriate the Star of David or the Muslim crescent or whatever other symbol of some protected group and tell them to appropriate it as a fascist symbol. Then I wonder what this activist hack will say. Or maybe this activist hack should get a job. Try not to swallow so much propaganda, buddy. Wallowing in viscous ignorance can be dangerous to your health. It is really pathetic.
Person who equated Kotwica with fascism/nazism should be simply sued because it is extremely offensive for Polish community worldwide. Anna SmoleÅska who designed this symbol was killed in Nazi German extermination camp in Auschwitz. For Poles, Kotwica is the most important symbol of Polish resistance against Nazi Germany. I was simply shaken when I saw that somebody put it as a hate symbol along with swastika.
The Ku Klux Klan uses the American flag on their marches on Washington and it doesn’t mean that the American flag is a Nazi symbol. Polish “Kotwica” has a profound symbolic meaning for Poles as an anti-Nazi emblem. So please do not suggest that it is a symbol of far-right demonstrators. It isn’t, equally, as the American flag isn’t. “Kotwica” is a legally protected symbol in Poland.
Nazism and fascism are left-wing concepts, which the left-wing have in some strange way supported society as right-wing. Madness. Here is the proof: the Nazi phrase comes from the German Nazi party NSDAP. It is an abbreviation for the German National Socialist Workers’ Party. Hitler was an outstanding socialist leader, just like Mussolini, the creator of another leftist ideology, i.e. fascism. I have no idea how these two guys were qualified to the right. They were the only ones arguing with Stalin about which of the socialist ideologies is better. They or him, that is Stalin. This quarrel of socialist leaders claimed 150 million victims in the 20th century. Ergo: all left-wing movements (e.g. Antifa) fight against the right-wing, i.e. they seek to enslave people, i.e. they are fascist.Quot errat demonstrandum.
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Senator Paulās second piece of evidence appears to originate from a meme that was passed around conservative circles a few years ago featuring a picture of Hitler with an alleged quotation beginning with āWe are socialistsā¦ā A snopes.com fact check on the meme quickly deemed it to be false, in part on the grounds that the quote was not from Hitler at all, but from Gregor Strasser.
Paul understands this much, but he still uses the same text from the meme and says: āLikewise, the Nazi Gregory Strasser spoke of his fellow Nazis thus: āWe are socialists. We are enemies, mortal enemies, of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!āā
But as the snopes.com post further notes, Gregor Strasser is a peculiar Nazi to quote on this or any point.
Strasser was indeed a Nazi, with thoroughly reprehensible nationalistic and anti-semitic views that he mixed with some traditionally left-leaning economic ideas. And he was a high-ranking one, running both the partyās propaganda department and its day-to-day operations for a time.
But whatever left-leaning ideas he had were, by the late 1920s, thoroughly rejected by Hitler. Strasser resigned from any position of authority within the party by the end of 1932, before the Nazis came to power in 1933, and he was literally murdered by the Nazis in the āNight of the Long Knivesā in early 1934, when Hitler had hundreds of political opponents extrajudicially executed ā including, crucially, Strasserās entire wing of the party.
Also Wagener reports that Hitler said he saw the whole of National Socialism as based on Marx. Thatās an odd claim on the part of Wagener, given the document I noted above signed by Hitler, according to which the Nazi Party āstands on the basis of private propertyā ā not a characteristically Marxist idea.
Leftists fight leftists all the time. Stalin had Trotsky killed, but that doesn’t mean Stalinists are not Communists. Leftists are totalitarians who use class war rhetoric to seize power & enslave the people. With that sort of power leftists have the luxury to be hypocrites. Stalin’s repression killed more Communists than Capitalists.