Uncle Lenin gave shoes and chocolates to the poor children, said the nursery school aunt in the spirit of party propaganda. Today, the kindergarten teacher is reading a story to the little ones about the other prince who also fights the dragon for the prince's hand.
My German colleague and friend feels very sorry for me that, as a native Hungarian, I feel it is my duty to defend Orbán's unacceptable policy. By the way, my former colleague is a great friend of Hungary, so instead of me and all Hungarians, he is ashamed of the latest, openly anti-minority Hungarian law package that tramples European values.
To be clear: the child protection law passed on Tuesday makes his cheeks blush, because he knows as much about it as is revealed to him by the independent and public service press, as a German citizen who has unwavering faith in democracy. Namely, that the Hungarian parliamentary majority - despite the fierce protests of the left-wing opposition - adopted a law against homosexuals, conflating pedophilia with homosexuality.
Under the pretext of protecting children, it torpedoed the idea of European diversity. From now on, life will become hell for LGBTQ people in Hungary. With this, Orbán showed the whites of his teeth, a minority, whose protection is considered a key European value, fell victim to his election campaign.
The headline so far. From the manipulative public service channels to the most left-wing media outlets (sorry, I always forget that only independent, objective media exists in Germany), the reports use the Hungarian law protecting minors to smear the Hungarian Prime Minister, whom they call "Puszta-Putin".
The liberal EU cannot tolerate this any longer! The Hungarian opposition narrative is reflected in the German coverage, the continuous repetition of the construction of the "controversial" Chinese and Russian relations, so that the Orbán autocracy can finally become openly visible. Instead of a Chinese communist elite university student dormitory, a Russian-style law against sexual minorities, the outdated father-mother family model concreted into the basic law, the high death rate hidden behind the successful vaccination campaign.
All of them are particularly painful for the Germans: they have had a hard time bearing the fact that Hungary has overtaken them in terms of vaccinations by purchasing vaccines from outside the EU, and thus the economy can start here sooner. They too would have liked to see Fudan University in Germany, because they know exactly that there is no better innovation than the academic import of gray matter.
Anyway, how is this shredded country going to reap the benefits of Chinese trade to Europe instead of them? And now here is this homophobic law, which seriously violates even the freedom of the press! From then on, the economic foundations of the German-owned RTL Klub will be shaken (it has already been shaken morally for a long time), since in the future it will not be able to play unhealthy Coca-Cola products advertised with gay couples in prime time. Ouch, we stepped on their feet again!
The protection of LGBTQI (and LGBTQI) people is a European matter. The European Union has forty million citizens belonging to native national minorities, and their protection, as we read in the justification for rejecting the Minority Safe Pack, is a national competence. It may be so, it seems that these are people stuck to the earth, because they still live there and still want to live where they were born. In contrast to those with multi-letter identities, who are symbolized by a multi-colored globalized rainbow spanning the sky. They understand the spirit of the times!
They are the dissident young people who give themselves a huge round of applause. Those who go to the streets (because they can), attend university (because they are allowed to), for whom the free choice of gender is a symbol of freedom. And they want to exercise this freedom from birth, or at least from the moment they wake up. They don't realize that they are being manipulated by a thousand, sensitized with trendy words.
Sensitization is an old method, in my childhood the Party wanted to raise good comrades in the children in accordance with the spirit of socialism by raising and lowering the weekly flag, by introducing the small drum, pioneer and KISZ movement in schools. Uncle Lenin gave shoes and chocolates to the poor children, said the nursery school aunt in the spirit of party propaganda.
Today, the kindergarten teacher is reading a story to the little ones about the other prince who also fights the dragon for the prince's hand. A teacher's manual is also being prepared for the storybook on how to explain gender diversity to children. The regime change banished politics from educational institutions, and here it is lurking again in rainbow robes. It would be nice if the guardians of European values also recognized what this story is about!
The "homosexual" law, whatever it is called, is not directed against people of the same sex. They can still enter into a cohabitation contract, which provides roughly the same rights as marriage. But since it is not a marriage, they cannot bear each other's names and cannot adopt children.
Just like in the case of a heterogeneous life partner relationship. No gender discrimination! (Anyway, parenthetically, the law establishing this was adopted by the parliament during the reign of the socialists. Perhaps they should be held accountable for why gay marriage and the possibility of adoption were not voted on then?)
Back to the Germans, I would be happy if they saw that the current law protects minors. Not only against pedophiles, but against all kinds of sexual sensitization and influence. And let's make it clear, there is no place for political, sexual, or other propaganda in an educational institution!
As fate would have it, we were placed in a group with the Germans at the soccer EC. It would be awful if I didn't have to listen to the Budapest connection on the German sports program as "Here we are in Budapest, where the radical, populist right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just passed a law against homosexuals." If it wasn't about politics, the rainbow-colored stadium in Munich and sensitive kneeling, it would finally be about sports.
The article was published in the columns of Magyar Hírlap , written by historian Irén Rab
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