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Re: double standards watch (4.00 / 4)

You are going to be sick? Consider my choices...

In a formerly independent daily that was bought by an industrialist close to the main right-wing party Fidesz, a far-right 'intellectual' (who used to be a founding member of the former) publishes an op-ed in which he explicitely declares himself an anti-semite. After outrage on the other side, the paper's new owner declares his paper is for a plurality of opinions; and Fidesz boss Orbán shares smiling photos with the antisemite at Fidesz's 20-year anniversary party.
In the main literary weekly magazine, which is also a main liberal weekly, the local top libertarian intellectual turned top neocon fan publishes an article titled "Wilders' bitter truth". On Index.hu, an also liberal-minded news site, the top libertarian pundit blames the downfall of the Hungarian liberal party on pro-tolerance sociologists, whose multicultural dreams were supposedly negated by the supposed hard facts of "Gypsy-crime" at home and Muslims in West Europe.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 02:06:38 PM EST
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No Muslims in Europe (none / 0)

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/4/15/132029/224#37

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 03:05:19 PM EST
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Re: No Muslims in Europe (none / 0)

In this case, as in the linked, you mistake the exposure of far-right rhetoric for its adoption in own use.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 03:08:09 PM EST
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