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Same thing has happened in Hungary https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/george-soros-viktor-orban-ceu/588070/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magaz

• deogeo 7y ago
  Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy', while elected officials trying to limit the influence of foreign capital is 'authoritarian'. By that logic, limiting the influence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute is also anti-democratic.
  • spaced-out 7y ago
    >Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy', Source?
    • deogeo 7y ago
      The very article linked in the post I replied to: "Soros had conceived the school during the dying days of communism to train a generation of technocrats who would write new constitutions, privatize state enterprises, and lead the post-Soviet world into a cosmopolitan future." And its wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_University) states: "A central tenet of the university's philosophy is the promotion of open societies." It cites https://www.ceu.edu/rethinking-open-society https://www.ceu.edu/rethinking-open-society, which supports that statement.
  • peu4000 7y ago
    It is quite amazing that different situations are different.
    • deogeo 7y ago
      This reads like a dismissal, yet refutes none of my observations.
• sgnelson 7y ago
  Let me add as well: Some similar types of things are happening in the US. Politics above science. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-administration-climate-crisis-denying-scientist https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-...