Ryszard Antoni Legutko is a Polish philosopher and politician. He currently works at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specialising in ancient philosophy and political theory.
In 2010, students attempted to sue him for violation of personal rights because he refused to remove Christian symbols from a public school. In response to their efforts, he called them "unruly brats spoiled by their parents".
Clearly, he’s one of the last members of the anti-woke, old guard still occupying a seat in the European Parliament chamber…
Full speech transcript:
Madam president.
Prime Minister's two minutes of truth, of bitter truth, and the bitter truth is that the European Parliament has done a lot of damage in Europe.
It has been sending a false message it represents the European demos. There isn't there won't be any European demos.
The parliament infected Europe with shameless partisanship, and the infection became so contagious that spread to other institutions, such as European Commission.
The parliament has abandoned the basic function of representing people. Instead, it has become a machine to implement the so-called European Project, thus alienating millions of voters.
The parliament has become a political vehicle of the left to impose their monopoly with their fierce intolerance towards any dissenting views. No matter how many times you repeat the word, diversity, diversity is becoming an extinct species in the European Union and particularly in this chamber.
The parliament is a quasi-parliament because it rejects the essential, the essential, principle of parliaments, namely accountability. The deputy, let me remind you, is elected by the voters and must be accountable to the voters that elected him.
Not so in the European Union. The idea that say Spanish/German friendship set up deputies accountable to their own national electorates can dictate something to - shall we say - Hungarian society or any other society to which they cannot be held accountable and which cannot take them to task is simply preposterous.
Call it, call it what you will, but democracy, it is not. To sum up, the parliament represents the demos that does not exist, works for the project that ignores reality and law, shuns accountability, turns its back on millions of people and serves the interests of one political orientation. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Having said that, ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.
Decorated Philosophy Professor Sticks It To Unaccountable European Bureaucrats