[GOAL] anti-Soros campaign /Re: The Budapest Open Access Initiative and Budapest 2017

[Stevan Harnad]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <sigmaxi.org.zaf at dfgh.net> wrote:

>  On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros
> > [...] is today being notably vilified in a hate campaign by
> > Hungary’s incipient dictator
>
>  So an autocrat is vilifying the sponsor of OSI
>  (as well as countless other Open Society NGOs).
>  It is certainly sad, but how is that ironic?
>
>   -- Zoli Fekete (an introspective Hungarian)
>

Kedves Zoli,

Ironic -- for the regulars of the *Global Open Access List*, successor to
SigmaXi's *American Scientist Open Access Forum* -- that the Budapest-born
(and fled) funder of the *Budapest Open Access Initiative* in Budapest in
2001 is being openly calumnied in Budapest in 2017 (by one of the past
beneficiaries of his philanthropy).

Yes, we're used to autocrats doing things like that, but not quite so
flagrantly (since the '30s), and not smack in the middle of the EU, with
impunity.

Perhaps either "outrageous" or "preposterous" would be more pertinent and
proportionate descriptors than "ironic" (introspectively speaking), but I
was straining to be decorous...

Minden jót,

István
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