“You should have been standing there too — unfortunately you were born too late.”
This is what a TISZA supporter wrote in a comment to my fellow representative Béla Radics, under his post marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he commemorated the Jews who were shot into the Danube.
Is this the TISZA’s so-called “country of love”?!
Writing something like this to anyone is completely unacceptable. We firmly reject comments like this.
Instead of hatred, together with the national government we choose respect for Hungarians and the preservation of peace.
I want to show you the comment that I believe I came across yesterday on the page of my fellow representative Béla Radics. Ah — here it is.
This particular TISZA commenter wrote this under a photo posted by Béla Radics, where he shared an image of the Shoes on the Danube Bank on Holocaust Remembrance Day — a memorial that symbolizes how countless Jewish people were tragically shot into the Danube.
And under this image, the commenter wrote: “You should have been standing there too — unfortunately you were born too late.”
So this is the TISZA “country of love”: writing under someone’s post — whether they are a representative or not, it doesn’t matter, a human being is a human being — that they too should have been standing there so they could be shot into the Danube.
Well then, this is what the TISZA “country of love” looks like.
🔴 1️⃣ It builds on real outrage – but uses it as a political weapon
The comment being quoted is genuinely unacceptable.
Holocaust Memorial Day + the symbol of Jews shot into the Danube + “you should have been standing there too” → this is violence-referencing, dehumanizing speech.
The natural reaction to this is:
➡️ disgust
➡️ moral outrage
➡️ rejection
However, a distortion happens here:
The words of one anonymous commenter
➡️ are reframed
➡️ into a moral characterization of an entire political community.
🧠 2️⃣ One person = the whole camp (collective guilt)
Key sentence:
“Is this the TISZA ‘country of love’?”
The logical step that is never said out loud, but is implied:
one commenter → “TISZA supporter”
“TISZA supporter” → TISZA community
TISZA community → “these kinds of people”
This is a basic propaganda operation:
one extreme voice → moral judgment of an entire political side
The same pattern has worked before with:
- one protester’s sign
- one activist’s sentence
- one slip of the tongue
➡️ “See? That’s what they’re like.”
🎯 3️⃣ The issue is no longer about the Holocaust
Notice the shift:
Original topic:
Holocaust memorial day, victims shot into the Danube
Reframed topic:
The moral corruption of TISZA vs “us”
Here, the Holocaust is no longer historical remembrance, but:
👉 a moral backdrop
👉 an emotional amplifier
👉 a tool of political legitimation
This is especially powerful because:
- the topic is sacred and sensitive by nature
- anyone placed on the “wrong side” in this context is morally discredited immediately
🟠 4️⃣ “We” = peace, respect, the nation
The closing move is typical:
“Instead of hatred, we choose peace and respect for Hungarians.”
So the formula becomes:
| They | We |
|---|---|
| hatred | peace |
| death-referencing speech | respect |
| moral corruption | national government |
This is a moral black-and-white world.
There is no:
- clarification of responsibility
- identification of the commenter
- request for distancing from the other side
Only moral contrast-building.
🔥 5️⃣ Emotional sequence (very deliberate)
- Holocaust
- People shot into the Danube
- A death-referencing sentence
- “TISZA’s country of love”
- “We choose peace”
Emotionally, this works like:
shock → disgust → anger → enemy image → comforting identification with “us”
This is not information.
This is an emotional transition into political identity.
🧩 In summary
Three things are mixed in this text:
✔ A genuinely condemnable comment
❌ The manufacturing of collective guilt
❌ Turning Holocaust remembrance into a political tool
The core trick:
Using one disgusting sentence to morally stain an entire political side.
That’s why it’s powerful.
And that’s why it’s propaganda.