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Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy', while elected officials trying to limit the influence o

by 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.