{"id":2786,"date":"2018-08-25T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:46:53","slug":"kulturkampf-in-hungary-goodbye-gender-studies-and-its-only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2018\/08\/25\/kulturkampf-in-hungary-goodbye-gender-studies-and-its-only-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulturkampf in Hungary, goodbye \u201cgender studies\u201d \u2013 and it\u2019s only the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The teaching of \u201cgender studies\u201d is no longer financed in Hungary. This is part of an important \u201ccultural and ideological war\u201d, redrawing the political, cultural and intellectual landscape of Hungary.<\/p>\n

It fell this summer, in the middle of August. Students who have started a course in \u201cgender studies\u201d will be able to finish it, but no one will be able to start it from now on, until they pay for it the full cost of teaching. This measure of Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s new government has knocked down the opposition, more moribund than ever. \u201cAnd what\u2019s next, will it be the prohibition of abortion?,\u201d asks, worried, the liberal leftist magazine\u00a0HVG<\/em>. \u201cOr the ban on mathematics?\u201d attempts to ask ironically\u00a0Azonnali<\/em>, another liberal left-wing site.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0his resounding victory last April, Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u00a0brought some changes in his government team. And the one that made the biggest fuss is undoubtedly the appointment of the great professor and surgeon Mikl\u00f3s K\u00e1sler at the head of the super-department of \u201cHuman Resources\u201d, combining the former ministries of health, education and social affairs and work. Mikl\u00f3s K\u00e1sler fits perfectly for this job. With 25 diplomas, decoration or awards, this oncologist directs the Hungarian National Institute of Oncology and teaches at the university. But here it is: he is fiercely Christian and illiberal. According to him, liberalism has reached its limits. And according to this eminent professor, the strict obedience to the Ten Commandments would result, in particular, in having fewer diseases, and better public health. Enough to irritate and worry the liberal forces.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the work of the Szekler journalist \u00c1rp\u00e1d Szak\u00e1cs since this spring is also bearing fruit. In a series of articles entitled\u00a0\u201cKinek a kultur\u00e1lis diktat\u00far\u00e1ja?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cThe cultural dictatorship of whom?\u201d) published in the national pro-Orb\u00e1n newspaper\u00a0Magyar Id\u0151k<\/em>, \u00c1rp\u00e1d Szak\u00e1cs denounces the hegemony of the liberal left in the culture, naming people and presenting figures, causing at each publication \u2013\u00a0he just published the thirteenth\u00a0\u2013 an earthquake. His methodical denunciation has already led to the dismissal of an institute director who is too inclined to minimize Bolshevik crimes or to finance left-liberal sponsorship.<\/p>\n

This true cultural struggle against the liberal, ubiquitous and hegemonic left in cultural, media and intellectual circles has become possible because Viktor Orb\u00e1n has given the green light. During\u00a0his speech in Tusv\u00e1nyos at the end of July, the strong man of Budapest made it clear.<\/p>\n

The idea is to put an end to the schizophrenia \u2013 or simple cowardice? \u2013 typical of the right-wing man: finance and put on a pedestal the opinion, or even the moral judgment of his opponents and enemies. The enduring success of Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s economic policy, his masterful re-elections, his growing influence on the Old World, not to mention the collapse of the opposition \u2013 a veritable intellectual desert, constantly reciting hollow mantras, permanently infighting and seeking a solution from the outside -, all this gives a historic opportunity to the illiberal camp of Viktor Orb\u00e1n to lead a de-liberalization. After failing to de-communize the country between 89 and 2002, Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz tries now to avoid making the same mistake; they are looking to, this time, expunge the anti-national forces from the institutions.<\/p>\n

And \u201cgender studies\u201d have to pay the price. Announced early August, the two universities \u2013 including the CEU \u2013 which taught this social pseudo-science and in fact a real tool for formatting and import liberal ideology have been notified that the current situation will not continue. In the opposition, strongly inspired by Aesop\u2019s fable of\u00a0the Boy who cried Wolf<\/em>, one continues to cry \u201cdictatorship\u201d, but no one listens, tired of their loud complaints in reaction to everything Orb\u00e1n does. Moreover, the revolutionaries were for many on vacation. But summer is nearly over, and we will soon see what this ban will provoke as \u201cspontaneous\u201d reactions.<\/p>\n

For the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies,\u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f6v\u00e9r,\u00a0the \u201cgender studies\u201d represent an ideological \u201canti-social\u201d and \u201cextremist\u201d importation. Mr K\u00f6v\u00e9r goes further: some try to pass off the \u201cgenderizmus<\/em>\u201d (\u201cgender studies\u201d) for a science, whereas it is only ideology and \u201cit is about the establishment of a state of mind concerning the experiments on Human\u201dwhich is in no way better than Nazi eugenics.<\/p>\n

In short, farewell, gender theory, Hungary does not want you here. And this is only a beginning, since some question arises already. How was this allowed in the first place? Who imported this to Hungary?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Erratum: we edited this article which stated eralier that \u201cgender studies\u201d were \u201cnot allowed\u201d anymore and corrected the sentence; they will not be financed anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hungary\u00a0\u2013 The teaching of \u201cgender studies\u201d is no longer financed in Hungary. This is part of an important \u201ccultural and ideological war\u201d, redrawing the political, cultural and intellectual landscape of Hungary. It fell this summer, in the middle of August. Students who have started a course in \u201cgender studies\u201d will be able to finish it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}