I'm fed up with the statements of the András Schiffs. Let's add, by the "types" I mean those self-pitying celebrities who find fault with others on the road.

They do all this so convincingly that in the end they manage to spread the dirt.

This is how András Schiff, the prominent Jewish pianist, who wept his heartache in a lengthy interview with The Telegraph recently. During the interview, they were also asked if he ever feared for his own safety because of his background, to which Schiff replied:

“Well, someone on social media said that they called me and other prominent Hungarian Jews human excrement, and someone else promised to cut off my hand if I ever came to Hungary. But I don't take these things seriously."

Of course, András Schiff refuses to perform in his country, in fact, he does not even visit the country.

Back to excrement: this is also a statement that we often come across when someone chants something out of context.

But how was the sentence quoted above pronounced? As a person or as a Hungarian - at least according to him - was he considered so?

Although there is no big difference, as the saying is known: who is lousy to Hungarians, is also lousy to people.
Translated into English or German, this statement is really strange... However, in Hungarian there is another, shorter word for it, it is indicated by sz@r.

And this term is used very often in Pest slang (and Hungarian in general), and not in the sense of "human excrement" at all, but simply in the sense of "bad and garbage".

And - if you think about it - as a Hungarian, I think that András Schiff could really be called bad, if he has been able to talk so many bad things about Hungarians and Hungary for years.

It simply has no ties to Hungary

He doesn't feel it's home, that's why he left here, namely to where - according to him - he can assert himself better through his connections. Not because they chased them away, like so many of our other actors and academic writers after the war, because they wanted to put them in prison or, excuse me, maybe even execute them.

They really could have been angry at their country, they would have had reason to be. Yet, unlike Schiff, they felt at home until the end of their lives, and then they got sick and often died because they couldn't come home.

That is why they were not sz@r Hungarians.

In any case, even this lunch in the canteen gets this label, if the students don't like it, they still don't remember that they ate human excrement.

If I had as many forints as the number of times Orbán and his government received this epithet from opposition sympathizers, sometimes from the opposition itself, I would be a billionaire. It is another matter that the prime minister did not think to run away from the country after a verbal insult and vow not to come back.

And what about O1G, which has matured into its own brand? When Orbán's united, very intellectual opposition chanted this, people hardly associated it with "the glandular secretion that leaves the male genital organ during ejaculation", but with something bad, disgusting, and undesirable for them.

Well, what can we do, that was their opinion, sluss. Others said that "Orbán is a genius", because that was their opinion!

But I beg you, András Schiff's occasional taxi driver can also have an opinion - "I remember when I got into a taxi in Budapest, the driver started complaining that the Jews can do everything" - but it is not appropriate to generalize and derive from this an interpretation of opinion valid for one country.

I note that Bullshit is also known in English-Saxon usage, and in German the term Scheiße, which is the equivalent of the Hungarian sz@r, is also used by critics of the German government to refer to either Chancellor Scholz or Minister of Economy Habeck and the others. And behold a miracle, they don't take off their hats either and leave Germany in a hurry.

All this on the part of András Schiff, as a reason: storytelling

It's much easier to run to The Telegraph or wait for them to come to you and tell them for the fifth or tenth time how terrible this Christian Hungarian government is, and even a Hungarian taxi driver had a bad opinion of those who (hmm, when? ) I was called sz@r.

And of course, without batting an eye, the reporter drew the conclusion at the end of the interview that the Hungarian government definitely thinks like this. But I think this conclusion is Bullshit, Scheiße, i.e. sz@r.

Schiff has to give some kind of explanation as to why he does not go back to the country where he comes from, and how useful the world-shaking opinion of a Hungarian taxi driver is at this time, isn't it?

Cause and effect. It is clear - the reader draws the conclusion.

I, on the other hand, have had enough of this! Because the above-mentioned reader is really sheepish and closes the newspaper with satisfaction, saying: look, this is another proof of what is going on in that country, since the Western newspapers are already writing about it.

Oh, how they write! Why, when did the Western press not bite on the heartbreaking, clickbait stories - regardless of their truth content?

(TTG)

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