Poland: "Law and Justice" councilor jokes that garbage incinerator street should be named after Auschwitz

Via CFCA:

Poznan - During the meeting of City Hall's officials choosing new streets' names, Professor Janusz Kapuscinski (the representative of PiS, "Law and Justice" party, leading group of upcoming-in-a-week election to Polish Parliament), proposed to name the street leading to the garbage incinerator (still under construction) as "Oswiecimska Street". Oswiecim is the name of Polish town where Nazi build The Death Camp Auschwitz... That proposal was met with laughter approval and understanding of fellow aldermen rather than with outrage. Though one of them did call the proposal "a joke of bad taste".   more