In a special issue of “International Report”, Witold Jurasz and Agnieszka Bryc talk to Agnieszka Holland about the crisis of Western values, the condition of liberal democracy and the moral costs of policies pursued in the shadow of migration, war and disinformation.
This is a conversation about where Poland, Europe and the modern world are heading, and what more can be done before things are really over.
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Agnieszka Holland directly diagnoses the shift in the boundaries of acceptable violence and dehumanization, and the presenters confront her perspective with their own doubts about the security and responsibility of the state.
— The problem is that we have no counter-narrative from the democratic side. It reflects the emotions that the far right lets into public space. They function from one public opinion poll to another. They have no space, they only listen to what is prevailing at the moment – the director points out.
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In the latest episode of “International Report”, Witold Jurasz and Agnieszka Bryc ask Agnieszka Holland, among others: for the defense of the Polish border. — When politicians of the current coalition talk about people who cross this border as “illegal cattle”, “hordes”, “murderers”, they dehumanize them – emphasizes the director.
Witold Jurasz points out that the Prime Minister does not say such words. — Donald Tusk is too clever a politician to use such terms, but people from his coalition and his government say it. They say this on the basis of what seems to be precise legal decisions that this government makes, replies the interlocutor.
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