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The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the issue of efficacy of the anti- racist communication strategies used to publicize and criticize cases of the racist hate speech in the Polish public discourse. I argue that the actions being currently undertaken within this field - defined as the anti-racist discourse - are often ineffective. The empirical basis for considerations presented in the article is provided by a discourse analysis focusing on the media dispute evoked by the parliamentary statement made by deputy Artur Górski (Law and Justice) on October 5, 2008. The context for reflection on the Polish anti-racist discourse and the controversies over the validity of the racist hate speech is of double nature. On one hand, it is shaped by the American debates on political correctness carried out in the eighties and nineties of the 20th century. On the other, the context comprises transformations of the racist and anti-racist discourse in the Western Europe as well as the rhetoric of the European populist right that has been developing since the seventies of the last century. In the article, I point at some of the causes of inefficacy of the anti-racist discourse and also try to outline certain general directives that can offer a departure point for reasonable modification of the anti-racist communication strategies in the future.
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The study examines the association between the ideology of multiculturalism and political correctness. The policy of multicultural correctness is becoming obsolete as a result of vanishing universal values and the need for trans-cultural harmony. Multiculturalism accompanies politically unlimited globalization where the criterion of social justice is replaced with the criterion of differentiation and where it is diminished to cultural differences. Multiculturalism as an emancipation tool may only function under the circumstances when human rights are treated primarily as social rights. The Islamism of the Western European ghetto abuses the disparity between the political and social rights. The return to the culture of the ancient homeland (=Islam) is a reaction to poverty and a form of protest against social powerlessness.
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Celem tego artykułu jest próba opisu kontrowersji spowodowanych użyciem rasistowskiego języka w polskim dyskursie publicznym. Autor przyjmuje hipotezę o istnieniu powiązań między nagłaśnianiem rasistowskiej mowy nienawiści (i etykietowaniem posługujących się nią osób jako rasistów) a krytyką tak zwanej poprawności politycznej. Badanie miało charakter studium przypadku, dotyczącego intensywnego sporu medialnego wokół kontrowersyjnego oświadczenia sejmowego posła Artura Górskiego (PiS) z 5 listopada 2008 roku. Zastosowana metoda badawcza to analiza dyskursu, wykorzystująca między innymi metodologię analizy konwersacyjnej. W artykule prezentowana jest analiza fragmentu wspomnia- nego sporu, a mianowicie dyskusji w programie telewizyjnym „Warto rozmawiać”. Ponadto rozważane są warunki, w których możliwy byłby alternatywny, bardziej konstruktywny przebieg opisywanego medialnego sporu o prawomocność obecności języka rasistowskiego w dyskursie publicznym. W zakończeniu autor krótko odnosi wnioski płynące z analizy do bardziej ogólnych kwestii związanych z omawianą problematyką.
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This article attempts to describe controversies caused by the use of racist language in Polish public discourse. The author's main hypothesis investigates the interrelations between publicizing race hate speech (and labeling its users as racists) and criticisms of political correctness. The empirical evidence is based on a detailed case study of an intense media debate on the controversial parliamentary statement made by the Sejm deputy Artur Górski (member of Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc) on the 5th of October 2008. The research approach of discourse analysis was applied, including, inter alia, the methodology of conversation analysis. The paper presents an analysis of one instance of the aforementioned debate, i.e. the discussion in the TV talk show 'Warto rozmawiać'. Furthermore, the paper directs attention to the conditions which might enable an alternative, more productive course of media debate over racist language in public discourse. In the final part of the article, the author briefly presents the conclusions from the analysis in the context of more general issues within the discussed field.
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