1 listopad 2009 – Teletubiś-gej, papież i bojkot IKEI w książce Szwedki o Polsce
8 pazdziernik 2009 – Stephen Fry provokes Polish fury over Auschwitz remark
24 czerwiec 2009 – Amerykanscy kongresmeni naciskaja na Polske i Litwe w sprawie odszkodowan
24 czerwiec 2009 -
Boycott SUBWAY
Most of us have stayed away from the box office bomb that is LAND OF THE LOST. Those who have had the misfortune of seeing the film know that there is a Polish slur when Will Ferrell’s character (Rick Marshall) states that the T-Rex is actually more stupid than Polish people due to its walnut-sized brain. What is more disturbing than this pathetic attempt at being funny is what Will Ferrell said about it in an interview.
Q: It’s been so long since anyone has done Polish jokes. Have they come back around?WILL FERRELL: Yeah, probably.
Q: Are you expecting any kind of blow back from the Polish community?
WILL FERRELL: I would be flattered if there was. Yeah. I know, it’s so funny. It made us laugh, the fact of reintroducing that in it, and especially that Rick Marshall would use that as a reference. It’s like in his nerdy mind it would be like, “It’s a pretty funny reference, right?” But that’s funny that you’d pick that out.
Since Will Ferrell looks forward to the extra publicity that some media outcry on the part of the Polish-American community would create, let’s go after some of the money behind the promotion of this film. As we all have seen, SUBWAY Restaurants has had a promotional tie-in with the film, which continues to this day. If you go to the SUBWAY Web site, you will see that an ad for the film comes up right in the middle of the Web site.
I urge you to boycott SUBWAY Restaurants until they end their association with a film that is so blatantly insulting to Poles everywhere. It’s one thing to be associated with a bad film and still another to be associated with bigotry.
I also urge you to take a few minutes to write to the founder and president of SUBWAY – Fred De Luca. Maybe he will rethink his promotional tie-ins next time.
Fred De Luca, President
SUBWAY Restaurant Headquarters
325 Bic Drive
Milford, CT 06461-3059
Fax: + 1-203-783-7893PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! THANK YOU.
Here is a sample letter:
Dear Mr De Luca,
With the recent theatrical release of LAND OF THE LOST, we were very disappointed to see that the film’s writers and producers were so lacking in creativity that they resorted to a Polish slur in a pathetic and failed effort to be funny. The objectionable remark is made by Will Ferrell’s character when he states that the T-Rex is actually more stupid than Polish people due to its walnut-sized brain.
We are equally disappointed that SUBWAY Restaurants have entered into a close promotional relationship with the film and that your promotion of the film continues to this day. Perhaps you were unaware of this line of dialogue prior to the film’s release, but there is no excuse now. It is one thing to be associated with a bad film and still another to be associated with a film that20is insulting.Perhaps you are unaware of the fact that there are 12 million Polish-Americans, constituting one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States. A city like Chicago, where there are over 200 SUBWAY locations, has a population of over one million Polish-Americans. In fact, some of the SUBWAY franchises are probably owned by Polish-Americans. It is unacceptable that SUBWAY would support a film that calls them stupid.
As long as SUBWAY’s promotion of LAND OF THE LOST continues, we will make every effort to encourage Polish-Americans and others who have evolved beyond the ignorance of ethnic=2 0slurs (as they are slurs, not jokes) to refrain from spending their hard-earned money at SUBWAY.
16 czerwiec 2009 -
From: Adam T Cios md
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:43 AM
Subject: antypolonism w Chicago TribuneDrodzy Koledzy/zanki,
I znowu to sie stalo, czy przez zwykla niewiedze, czy umyslnie, tego nie wiem, ale “Polish Holocaust” okreslenie pojawilo sie w magazynie “Parade” w dzisiejszej Chicago Tribune (Sun, Jun 14th, 2009).podczas wywiadu z jakims aktorzyna.
Zamieszczam link do artykulu a takze pdf. file z podkreslonym niefortunnym sformulowaniem:
http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/celebrity/2009/06/shia-labeouf-mixed-up-life.html_71192263.html (click on “next page” and it shows in the first paragraph)
Zachecam wszystkich do protestow, mozna wyslac web-mail at:
http://www.parade.com/faq/faq.html
Mozna rowniez dzwonic do wydawcow, szcegolnie pana Walter Anderson, CEO (212) 450-7168 (inne kontakty: http://www.parade.com/corporate/parade_facts.html )
AC
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