Orbán declares at CPAC "a Christian politician cannot be racist"
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Orbán declares at CPAC "a Christian politician cannot be racist"
H ungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called on conservatives in Europe and the U.S. to take back power from liberals, declaring a "clash of civilizations" is underway.
The far-right leader, who addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas on Thursday, recently faced an international backlash over controversial remarks he made in late July, in which he said Hungarians "do not want to become peoples of mixed race." One former adviser, who has since resigned, referred to those comments as "a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels."
Orbán, who came to power in 2010, has increasingly clamped down on political opposition and press freedom, consolidating his power further over the last two elections.
At CPAC, Orbán tried to preempt criticism, claiming "a Christian politician cannot be racist" and that those who consider him a racist or anti-Semite are "simply idiots."
"I can already see tomorrow's headlines," Orbán said. "Far-right European racist and anti-Semite strongman, Trojan Horse of Putin, holds speech at conservative conference. But I don't want to give them any ideas, they know best how to write fake news."
During his speech, Orbán also attacked Jewish billionaire George Soros, former President Barack Obama, "globalists," and the Democratic Party: "They hate me and slander me and my country, as they hate you."
He also touted Hungary's aggressive illegal migration and anti-"gender ideology" policies. At one point, Orbán read the Hungarian constitution's definition of marriage being between one man and one woman, prompting applause from the CPAC audience. "Less drag queens and more Chuck Norris," he said.
A day before his appearance at CPAC, Orbán and his delegation met with former President Donald Trump at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr. Trump's leadership PAC Save America, tweeted pictures of the meeting.
Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Péter Szijjártó also commented in a tweet that Hungarian-U.S. relations were "at their peak when Donald Trump was President" and expressed the hope that he'll be president again. .
With an eye toward the 2024 U.S. presidential race, Orbán called on conservatives to mobilize on both sides of the Atlantic to take back political power.
"We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels. We must coordinate the movement of our troops, because we face the same challenge," he said. "You have two years to get ready."
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Orban has turned Hungary into an authoritarian, bigoted state. He has rigged elections, virtually ended a free press, and has condemned immigration, race mixing, same sex marriage. He told CPAC we are in a war of "civilizations", meaning I guess traditional viewpoints against societal progress. By his words, racism and bigotry represent humanity's most precious "tradition". And he got a standing ovation from the conservative Republicans at CPAC.
As far as Christians not able to be racist, he must not be a student of America. In the antebellum days slaveowners , white supremacists, and Christian preachers in the south used the Bible as justification for declaring black inferiority.
Hungary, has long been a racist state. Since the Enlightenment, that 17th-18th Century intellectual movement, race became one of the factors that scientists used to explain the natural world. Social Darwinists and other European intellectuals then developed conceptions of their physical attributes from race as species or subspecies, to a concept that embodied the features of a specific religious or ethnic group as critical to national identity.
In the early 20th Century, anthropometric, serological and anthropological debates on the ‘racial origin’ of various ethnic groups in Hungary occurred. Mathematical formulae, statistics and analyses of blood groups formed were used to build arguments that aimed to identify certain ethnic groups as ‘inferior and others as biologically verified ‘members’ of the ethnic majority.
Hungarian fascists, like other central European fascists and the Nazi's used this along with other modernist cultural rebellions that denounced the materialistic and individualistic view of the liberal bourgeois culture of the time.
Race and national identity became politically important again following the collapse of communism over 30 years ago. Orban didn't create this, he tapped into it.
seems to be a lot of 'leaders' tapping in
Yes, and it's ironic it traces back through eugenics and social Darwinism to original science during the so-called Enlightenment.
I always though that being a christian politician is a prerequisite to being a racist politician. But this helps explain why right wingers seem to like the guy so much.
It's laughable that you don't realize that there are racist politicians of other faiths and even atheist, racist politicians.
It's laughable that you are trolling me for something I never said.
Please show where I said that being a christian politician is THE ONLY prerequisite to being a racist politician.
No, you said a prerequisite, what other prerequisites do you see?
Correct, A prerequisite.
Quite a few. But see no reason to take the time to list them for someone that is just trolling me.
Find that hard to believe. To most leftists, to be racist, the only prerequisite is to be white. An added kicker for them is being a Christian.
"During his speech, Orbán also attacked Jewish billionaire George Soros ..."
And like the good little clock he is, Tucker Carlson jumped onto his perch last night and cuckooed the same shyte with an extra constipated grimace for consumption.
LOL, high comedy.
His own adviser resigned because of his racism, but at a U.S. conservative Republican meeting he is given a standing ovation.
At this point Adolf Hitler would receive a standing ovation. Hell, they would probably move to condemn the US military for its unjustified aggression against Nazi Germany in the 1940s.
American conservatism has gone completely off the deep end, it is now flat out a form of sadistic authoritarianism.
Gay people should be second class citizens.....Yea! standing ovation.
Immigration should not be allowed to keep the country pure....Yea! Standing ovation.
republicans are becoming some sick puppies.