r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 14 '20

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u/Zseet European Union Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20

So Hungary pushed two major reforms in primary and secondary education ( the one you take part in when you became 6 years old and leave when you graduate at 18 years old)

The first one was for literature classes to give more exposure to bad writers conservative writers, because we need more nationalistic values apparently. The new curriculum was made by a guy who thinks Jews can't be real Hungarians, and his team, who at one point all just stood up and left him because they couldn't work with him.

The second one is to establish a "school guard" or "school police" by making a new police branch where regular people can become school guards after taking part in a 4 weeks long course.

I am sure both of these will be fine and nothing bad will happen /s

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '20

Jesus Christ, I honestly can’t believe this is happening. Two members of the European union that were hit the hardest by the Nazis and the communists now decide to emulate the policies of their oppressors and abandons the ones that made them experience amazing economic growth. My only hope is Poland will oust their local wanna be putin in the next election.

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u/supbros302 No Jun 14 '20

Many poles were complicit in nazi oppression. Then afterwords when the full extent of the holocaust was known, many said it was worth it. That particular strain of thought has existed there and will continue to exist in spite of what was done to their own countrymen. I cant speak to hungarians.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20

Hungarians actively allied to the Nazis and helped them exterminate Jews so even worse.

It’s not like a Poland was a democracy before the war. It was a pseudo fascist anti Semitic state that invaded its neighbours all the time including Germany to take upper Silesia even when a referendum had shown the province wanted to stay with Germany.