If you wrote it in a movie, people would say, “Yeah right, like that’d ever happen.”
Well, it happened. Newser and the AP report:
As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite, and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols. Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.
Szegedi claims that he didn’t know he was part Jewish until someone tried to blackmail him. A recording surfaced of the politician trying to pay the guy off. Since then, Szegedi’s been rejected by all those anti-Semites who once held him in their esteem:
Szegedi resigned last month from all party positions and gave up his Jobbik membership. That wasn’t good enough for the party: Last week it asked him to give up his seat in the European Parliament as well.
What do you think will become of Szegedi? Will this make him more of a hateful bigot (full of self-loating)? Or soften the politician toward his ancestors – who survived Auschwitz and the forced labor camps?
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Speaking of Hungary….
There’s George Soros. Also Jewish, rescued, more or less, by Christians, although his stepfather was in charge of mulcting Jews and little Georgie rode along with him.
Not sure if he’s supposed to be softened.
He won’t be softened, he’ll still blame his bad luck on Jews I’m sure
He’ll be like “Damned Jews who had to give me life!”
What a fucking prick.
Got to give his party credit for consistency.
That awkward moment when…