<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sigmaxi.org.zaf@dfgh.net" target="_blank">sigmaxi.org.zaf@dfgh.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros<br>
> [...] is today being notably vilified in a hate campaign by<br>
> Hungary’s incipient dictator<br>
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So an autocrat is vilifying the sponsor of OSI<br>
(as well as countless other Open Society NGOs).<br>
It is certainly sad, but how is that ironic?<br>
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-- Zoli Fekete (an introspective Hungarian)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Kedves Zoli,</div><div><br></div><div>Ironic -- for the regulars of the <i>Global Open Access List</i>, successor to SigmaXi's <i>American Scientist Open Access Forum</i> -- that the Budapest-born (and fled) funder of the <i>Budapest Open Access Initiative</i> in Budapest in 2001 is being openly calumnied in Budapest in 2017 (by one of the past beneficiaries of his philanthropy). </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps either "outrageous" or "preposterous" would be more pertinent and proportionate descriptors than "ironic" (introspectively speaking), but I was straining to be decorous...</div><div><br></div><div>Minden jót,</div><div><br></div><div>István</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>