It is a treasure for a country to have a Czech Catherine: every time she speaks, she offers a great opportunity to practice temper management and perfect the virtue of gentleness. This is how the nation can be ennobled!
Here is also this current challenge, in the framework of which the MEP representative informs us on Facebook: he invited teachers and students to the European Parliament , who provided shocking reports about "the tragedy that has been going on for decades, which is the exclusion of Roma children and the undermining of their chances in Hungary " , as well as about " what it's like to live as a gay student in the shadow of an openly homophobic and discriminatory government policy ". A Czech EP representative shuddered and stated: " the last time he heard such stories was in communist Czechoslovakia " (well, he must have missed the fact that forced sterilizations were carried out in his country until 2012, and perhaps he had not even heard of the inhumane ghetto in Kassa, where the the Slovak government has promised an improvement by 2030 - but not every country has a Czech Katalina, who would reliably air out all the laundry in Brussels, even blackening a drop of it for the sake of dramaturgy, so that everyone will have a negative image).
If I were a conservative teacher at the beginning of my career, then I would get a scream from the momentary action, saying: we are here desperately trying to prove that there is no attempt to overthrow the government; that we cannot identify with the movement that sells the teacher's protest and LGBTQIA+ sweaters on the same platform; that we are not libertarians, but desperate - that's what this chick with a blender comes in, and she compromises our aspirations with a homophobic-racist séance insulting the country in Brussels in the name of presenting the state of public education. At the same time, we are also working to ensure that, following the new demonstration, the teachers' welfare funds arrive in Hungary as soon as possible. It's somehow amazing how someone can harm a cause from so many directions with a single movement, smiling incessantly - this kind of performance is certainly worthy of recognition.
However, let's take a closer look at the specific messages. According to the news, the Czech Katalins invited a delegation of 19 people, with the participation of teachers, parents, students, civil organizations and advocates. That is, we have to start from the fact that at the meeting, not some kind of critical mass, but roughly 1 (one) carefully selected gay and 1 (one) carefully selected Roma student reported on their own personal difficulties; from this, the excellent MEP representatives dared to draw the conclusion that in Hungary the government is making the future of gypsy students impossible and making the everyday lives of homosexual idiots miserable.
Apart from the fact that according to the German public service news station, German queer students regularly suffer from mobbing, and the Spanish media reports on the serious difficulties of Spanish "LMBTQ+" students at school, so the situation may even be more nuanced than it is here in Ooorbán also a logical problem. If the experiences of an informant invited by Renew Europe can easily be extrapolated to the entire Hungarian reality, would the experiences of the university students who visited Brussels a few weeks earlier, as part of the MCC Roma Talent Program, also be considered representative? Hopefully so, because it would be ugly to discriminate against Roma. And if they happened to have positive experiences, given that they basically went through public education under the Orbán governments and got into university? Or does it not matter, because it would not support the unilateral propaganda against Hungary?
Because it can perhaps even be called propaganda according to the established taxonomy of Krisztina Baranyi, when someone envisions the severance of the chances of Gypsy children shortly after the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, which is hardly accused of being close to the NER, published its latest report on the situation of the Roma in Europe, ten countries , including Examining Hungary as well.
From which it becomes quite concrete: the proportion of Roma between the ages of 16 and 24 who neither study nor work is by far the lowest in Hungary - 36 percent, compared to the EU average of 56 percent. In five years, even with covid, this indicator has improved by nine percentage points; this is what the expensive politician of the moment sets up as a systemic exclusion that other countries cannot even imagine.
But the interested party can also learn from the report that among young Roma between the ages of 20 and 24, most of them in Hungary completed at least the top grades of secondary school - the average of the examined EU countries is 27 percent, while in Hungary 41 percent complete public education, which is also 9 percentage point improvement compared to 2016. The Czech MEP, who is particularly upset about the situation in Hungary, must not have been informed that his country is at 22 percent; but even that is quite favorable compared to Portugal, where only every tenth Roma youth reached the end of secondary school.
If Hungary undermines the chances of the Roma, how should we rate the socialist-led Portugal?
Especially considering that 97 percent of Roma minors in the Iberian country are threatened by poverty, and only a narrow third of Roma adults of working age are engaged in some kind of gainful activity, even on an occasional basis; Hungary, on the other hand, is the leader, with a rate of 62 percent.
Of course, we still have a lot to improve, it would be a serious mistake to rest on our non-existent laurels. However, a significant prerequisite for further development is that as few profit-seeking politicians as possible strengthen the status of the Eternal Victim among the Gypsies, acting against all meaningful motivation and self-help efforts. Katalin Cseh, gold bug, you should finally understand this, God bless you.
Source: Mandarin
Author: Francesca Rivafinoli
Photo: Zoltán Máthé
