The standard Western answer to the above question is that Hungarians are racist. The 35,000 kids who whistled yesterday when the English players kneeled are also racist. Apparently they learned racism from their racist parents.
Racism is contagious: it is apparently already present in Hungarian children. But does this solution really unlock it? Is there even a minimal attempt at understanding in this answer? I don't know if the foreign critics noticed, but in the Hungarian national team, a black player played on the right wing, Nego - even his name means: black. However, Hungary has almost no black-skinned population. Those who still live among us, like Nego, we basically like, we have neither historical nor present-day conflicts with them. This problem is simply not part of our national history, we never had colonies.
So why do Hungarians whistle when the ritual kneeling begins? What bothers this little people about this gesture against racism? Perhaps it will help outsiders to understand, if we savor what the English national team captain, Gareth Southgate, said after yesterday's Anglo-Hungarian match. According to him, it is incomprehensible why Hungarian fans protest against kneeling, since "we do it to try to educate".
Wow. Southgate probably has no idea how bad that sentence is, or he wouldn't have said it. Well, the Hungarians have exactly this problem. That they want to raise them. That they want to impose another ideology on them from the outside - in the form of rainbow armbands, kneeling parties, gender frenzy parties, gut-wrenching, critical-theory parties. The Hungarians always came out badly from these ideological conquests - even if they surrendered, even if they didn't.
That's why they are simply annoyed by such things.
The Hungarian rejection is instinctive: "No, don't bring your problems and your solutions to them into our stadiums! It doesn't affect us and we don't care. Your educational intentions are an irritating imperial arrogance. If you try to educate, it provokes us, and the more you do it, the better. This is when we become tough and proud. If you are branded and shamed, we will print the stamps ourselves. If you were punished because of this, because you think we are racist and uneducable, then we will fill the stadiums with children and they will whistle for us. If you ban them too, the stones will remain standing!”
Westerners should finally understand that they don't understand Hungarians. Any real, respectful conversation could then begin.
Source: Divinity
Photo: Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP
