{"id":1250,"date":"2019-06-16T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2019-06-17T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:30:26","slug":"downgrading-hungarys-56-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/06\/16\/downgrading-hungarys-56-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Downgrading Hungary&#8217;s &#8217;56 Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hungarianfreepress.com\/2019\/06\/16\/ervin-kulcsar-of-the-vitezi-rend-delivered-a-xenophobic-speech-at-hungarofest-in-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\u201cErvin Kulcs\u00e1r of the Vit\u00e9zi Rend delivered a xenophobic speech at HungaroFest in Toronto\u201d (opens in a new tab)\">\u201c<\/a><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hungarianfreepress.com\/2019\/06\/16\/ervin-kulcsar-of-the-vitezi-rend-delivered-a-xenophobic-speech-at-hungarofest-in-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\u201cErvin Kulcs\u00e1r of the Vit\u00e9zi Rend delivered a xenophobic speech at HungaroFest in Toronto\u201d (opens in a new tab)\">Ervin Kulcs\u00e1r of the Vit\u00e9zi Rend delivered a xenophobic speech at HungaroFest in Toronto<\/a><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/hungarianfreepress.com\/2019\/06\/16\/ervin-kulcsar-of-the-vitezi-rend-delivered-a-xenophobic-speech-at-hungarofest-in-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\u201cErvin Kulcs\u00e1r of the Vit\u00e9zi Rend delivered a xenophobic speech at HungaroFest in Toronto\u201d (opens in a new tab)\">\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lobelog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorka4-768x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"136\" \/><figcaption>H &amp; H: Horthy had established the &#8220;Vit\u00e9zi Rend&#8221; in 1920<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sammler.ru\/uploads\/post-150-1144693232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"109\" \/><figcaption>Insignia of the &#8220;Vit\u00e9zi Rend&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, well, a simple-minded bigot, and member of a fascistoid organization (Vit\u00e9zi Rend) has been invited (by whom? why?) to give a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHiKv78Zfhc\"><strong>talk<\/strong><\/a> at an event commemorating the 1956 Hungarian uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from making some incoherent, triumphalist remarks about the &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; (even then a mixed crew of genuine democrats alongside crypto- and overt fascists and xenophobes), this grateful &#8220;$5 immigrant&#8221; (whatever that means) &#8212; who in the ensuing 6 decades managed to earn a living in his new home, but not to learn its language &#8212; uses the occasion to malign subsequent generations of immigrants to the country that generously and humanely took him in, managing to insult Canada&#8217;s current Parliamentary Secretary of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Arif Vinari, in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this shameful spectacle was no doubt orchestrated and bankrolled by Hungary&#8217;s current fascistoid, anti-immigrant government. What an irony! Hungary has long lost whatever admiration it inspired in the rest of the world in &#8217;56. Kulcs\u00e1r is right that (some) Hungarians are different. But not in the way he imagines\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cErvin Kulcs\u00e1r of the Vit\u00e9zi Rend delivered a xenophobic speech at HungaroFest in Toronto\u201d Well, well, a simple-minded bigot, and member of a fascistoid organization (Vit\u00e9zi Rend) has been invited (by whom? why?) to give a talk at an event commemorating the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Apart from making some incoherent, triumphalist remarks about the &#8220;freedom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/06\/16\/downgrading-hungarys-56-uprising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downgrading Hungary&#8217;s &#8217;56 Uprising&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}