The Imperialism of the NY Times

So Hungary’s new constitution has just gone into effect. And believe it or not, the Hungarians have actually erected a system of law which respects the historic Christian roots of their nation, conceives of marriage as between one man and one woman, and even protects human life from the moment of conception.

[Preamble:]

God bless the Hungarians
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We are proud that our king Saint Stephen built the Hungarian State on solid ground and made our country a part of Christian Europe one thousand years ago.
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We recognise the role of Christianity in preserving nationhood. We value the various religious traditions of our country.
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We do not recognise the suspension of our historical constitution due to foreign occupations. We deny any statute of limitations for the inhuman crimes committed against the Hungarian nation and its citizens under the National Socialist and Communist dictatorships.
We do not recognise the Communist constitution of 1949, since it was the basis for tyrannical rule; therefore we proclaim it to be invalid.
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Article L
(1) Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman established by voluntary decision, and the family as the basis of the nation’s survival.
(2) Hungary shall encourage the commitment to have children.
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FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
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Article II
Human dignity shall be inviolable. Every human being shall have the right to life and human dignity; embryonic and foetal life shall be subject to protection from the moment of conception.

The NY Times, outraged at the failure of the Hungarian people to conform to the cultural diktats of these United States, flings aside all pretense of concern for multiculturalism and the right of other nations to order their internal affairs as they like and brings the hammer down, declaring the Hungarian constitution “unconstitutional“. All that stuff about imperialism is wrong when other countries do it. But our elites really do know what’s best for those funny little foreign people.

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side. – George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism