Right wing government in Hungary awards journalism prize to anti-Semitic, anti-Roma author

[pampango]

Anger has erupted in Hungary over the award of a prestigious state journalism prize to a TV presenter who is frequently accused of anti-Roma and anti-Semitic comments. At least a dozen former recipients of the prize have returned their awards in protest against Szaniszlo receiving it.

Ferenc Szaniszlo was one of three journalists awarded the Mihaly Tancsics prize last week. Within hours, Minister for Human Resources Zoltan Balog apologised for what he called "a bad decision".

The choice of two other recipients of national honours on the same day has also been sharply criticised - archaeologist Kornel Bakay for allegedly anti-Semitic comments, and musician Janos Petras of the rock band Karpatia, which is associated with the far-right Jobbik party.

In the past, a prize jury has been composed of journalists from both a left-wing association, MUOSZ, and a right wing one, MUK. On this occasion, no MUOSZ representative was invited, but even the right-leaning jury found the choice of Szaniszlo inappropriate, according to the online version of the centre-right paper Heti Valasz. Someone in the human resources ministry appears to have overruled the jury.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21834834

[pampango]

2. Here are a couple of links for you to post your anti-Semitic bullshit.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/

But I'm sure you already have the bookmarked and are a regular there.

[HappyMe]

3. I alerted.

[SidDithers]

4. MIRT's on it too...

Just waiting for jury results to come in.

I'll act if autonuke doesn't get him.

Oh, forgot you were MIRT too.

Sid

[pampango]

6. He's gone. But surprising the vote to hide was only 5-1.

At Wed Mar 20, 2013, 09:44 AM you sent an alert on the following post:

There is no reason for anger...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2540298

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

YOUR COMMENTS:

Quite a first post - about as anti-Semitic as you can get. \"...not scared to stand against the Jewish plot and tell people the truth about them and their theories how to rule this world... \"

\"...has enough courage and will to talk about the Jewish problem openly because the rest of people who realize the danger coming from yids became their victims one way or another because yids firmly got their hands in all spheres of life ...\"

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Wed Mar 20, 2013, 09:54 AM, and voted 5-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: I agree with the alerter. This is disgusting. I hope MIRT ppr's it.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: If only for the use of the term yids. We need to nip this kind of talk as soon as it comes out.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: With no history about this poster, give him a chance. If he is a troll, the truth will be found out soon enough. For now, please proceed.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: This clown should be banned, muzzled and maybe even locked up.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: Have never seen something this bad outside of descriptive history, since I don't go to hate sites.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: Fuck off, you anti-Semitic piece of shit.

Thank you.

[sufrommich]

7. Juror #3 should lose their jury privileges. nt

[SidDithers]

8. Yup. Thought that was a slam-dunk 6-0...

Sid

[sufrommich]

5. Jury voted 5 -1 to hide the Stormfront troll.

Who's the one who voted to allow the creep to post?