“Hate speech in your hands has become an ideological catch-all, a tool for intimidation and punishing critical opinions of leftist ideology,” wrote PiS MP Sebastian Kaleta on X, responding to yet another attack—this time from Adam Bodnar—against President Andrzej Duda, who referred the so-called hate speech law to the Constitutional Tribunal.
Mowa nienawiści w waszych rękach stała się wytrychem ideologicznym, narzędziem do zastraszania i karania za krytyczne opinie wobec lewackiej ideologii.
— Sebastian Kaleta (@sjkaleta) April 18, 2025
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Bodnar’s disgraceful behavior
On Thursday, the Presidential Chancellery announced that Andrzej Duda had submitted the amendment to the Penal Code to the Constitutional Tribunal for a preventive review. The amendment, passed by the Sejm in March and drafted by the Ministry of Justice, expands the list of hate crimes to include four new categories: age, gender, disability, and sexual orientation.
“The President didn’t surprise us. A pity,” wrote Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar on Friday on X. He stated that the president “refused to sign a law that is meant to protect all of us, especially those who today are almost daily targets of hate and hostile attacks.”
In his post on X, Sebastian Kaleta highlighted what he called the hypocrisy of the December 13 coalition, which for years has been spreading hatred against PiS, the Polish right, conservatives, and Catholics—while at the same time preaching the need to fight hate and “unite Poles.”
“Just look at the current practices of your subordinates. You send police officers across the country to go after an elderly woman because she posted a critical comment about Owsiak, while your government systematically cultivates hatred and aggression under the eight-star slogan—yet the prosecutor’s office turns a blind eye to it,” he pointed out.
“With this law, it would only get worse. For criticizing the leftist worldview—like refusing to acknowledge hundreds of genders and pronouns—your team would want to prosecute people under the guise of fighting ‘hate speech.’ You talk about the rule of law, freedom, and democracy, but in practice, it’s exactly the opposite. That’s why the louder you shout about the need to fight hate speech, the more we should fear for our fundamental rights and freedoms—freedom of speech above all,” he concluded.