Hungary has passed a law banning Pride marches held by the LGBTQ+ community, sparking outrage in and out of the country.
Parliament voted for the measure just a day after the bill was submitted on Monday, in a process fast-tracked by the ruling right-wing Fidesz party under Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Orban praised the legislation, which bans the event on alleged grounds it is harmful to children, saying: “We won’t let woke ideology endanger our kids.”
Pride marches had been held for the past 30 years in Hungary. Opposition lawmakers lit flares during the voting session on Tuesday, while demonstrators blocked a bridge in central Budapest. Human rights groups have also condemned the move.
What worries me is that there is no defined opposition to this systematic dismantling of people’s freedoms all over the world. Everyone kinda waits for someone to take the lead and push back against totalitarian advances. Serbian students are months into a solid fight and nothing changed. It’s not a good sign.
Disregarding the fact that the dictator of Orbanistan has turned the media into a propaganda machine, it’s also possible that this is the kind of policy that the majority of citizens want.
Worked fine for 30 years, what’s the problem now? They want it because they were conditioned into that mindset. Like germans back in the day, or japanese. Make gays threatening and less human, then you have moral right to suppress them. And when gays are done, they’ll move to someone else.
With Fidesz slipping in the polls, the majority of Hungarians currently do not support Orbán’s policies.
The whole point of pride is that it’s not allowed.
