Rising antisemitism threatening all Jews in Hungary? Check. And check. And check. And check. And check. And check. (Again, which country are Jews fleeing from, and asking for special permits to carry weapons? I forgot. Perhaps someone could remind me.) It's so bad, we even need to lie about it to make it look bad.
They hate Muslims, too, of course. Who said they did not?
Racism everywhere? Check. And check.
Bigotry? Of course!
Second most nationalistic country? Check. (Even though the answers made no sense whatsoever: they asked if being born in Hungary was very important to be Hungarian in a country which is surrounded by areas where one third of Hungarians still live. There is something seriously fishy with these results when the most nationalistic Hungarians are the ones who are the most aware of -and most care about- the Hungarian minorities living outside of the country.)
Is the Far Right taking over everything? Do I hear goosestepping blackshirts every day? Check. And check.
Fascists? Of course! Are they downright Nazis? Check. Even their football fans are Nazis? Of course they are!
The question is: how deserved all this? Are Hungarians really just Nazis, waiting to fire up the ovens to destroy anyone who is not like them? (As if in such a mixed nation it makes sense talking about racial purity.)
Well, according to this survey, not very. I might point out that this was done in 2015, at the height of the migrant/refugee crisis.
Here's an imperfect map representation of the results.
As we see Hungarians are not special in any way; they fall into the middle of the pack when it comes to tolerance/intolerance; hardly the country in the brink of a Nazi takeover.
The question rather is: why so many articles pushing distorted half-facts or straight-out lies to support this agenda? Why do they spend so much time and effort to demonise a small, inconsequential country?
I have to say I have no idea. If you know the answer, please let me know.
