Viktor Orban Speaks
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On August 4th, CPAC applauded a fascist. Here’s what Orban had to say
“This is why we have always fought: we are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.”
-Viktor Orban, July 23, 2022
On August 4th, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban walked onstage at CPAC Dallas to rapturous applause. He is an affable tomato of a man: were his white hair green the illusion would be complete. When he speaks, he likes to address the audience as “my friends” with a warmth that makes me feel that he believes it. He wields self-deprecating humor like a scalpel–emphasizing Hungary’s small stature in comparison to the United States and claiming a tendency to bore his audience that I have never personally witnessed.
Migration has split Europe in two — or I could say that it has split the West in two. One half is a world where European and non-European peoples live together. These countries are no longer nations: they are nothing more than a conglomeration of peoples. I could also say that it is no longer the Western world, but the post-Western world.
-Viktor Orban, July 23, 2022
Orban did not discuss the perils of race-mixing on the CPAC stage, though he referenced it several times. “I think you managed to confuse a lot of people by inviting me,” he told them. “I can already see tomorrow’s headlines. Far-right, European racist, an anti-semite, strongman fan of Putin holds speech at conservative conference.”
“I tell you the truth,” he says. “In Hungary, we introduced a zero policy on racism and antisemitism. So accusing us is fake news.”
Good to know.
“Around 2050, the laws of mathematics will lead to the final demographic shift: cities in this part of the continent — or that part — will see the proportion of residents of non-European origin rising to over 50 per cent of the total. And here we are in Central Europe — in the other half of Europe, or of the West. If it were not somewhat confusing, I could say that the West — let’s say the West in its spiritual sense — has moved to Central Europe: the West is here, and what is left over there is merely the post-West.
-Viktor Orban, July 23, 2022
