Little history

Maria Theresa was the emperor of Austria Hungary in the 1700s. Her son and successor was Joseph II who reigned 29 November 1780 – February 20, 1790. Aside from his faults this Joe guy was pretty enlightened for his time. One of the good laws that he made toward the end of his reign was that he permitted Jewish people to take up family names. To that time Jews were not permitted to have family names. At least this was what I learned in history.

Since Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire it made sense that most Hungarian Jews took German sounding names. Later on many Jewish families picked up Hungarian names just to blend in. Unfortunately, that did not always help. Hungary was the home of latent antisemitism. I don't know for how long, but it was always there. 

Hungarians are a very jealous people. When they saw that Jewish brains achieved lot more than they did, they turned on the Jews. Major industrialists, Ganz, Weismanfred employed thousands of people, but they were Jews, so they were hated. It did not make sense but that was the way it was. A large part of antisemitism is jealousy.

My father told me that when he was going to the Technical University in the 1920s it was pretty usual that the nationalistic students periodically beat up the Jewish students. My father played good soccer and he was very popular. He told me that they usually warned him ahead of time to hide because Jew beating was going to happen.

This attitude eventually led to Hungary becoming the death sentence to thousands of innocent Jews, by allying themselves with Hitler and deporting tens of thousands to death camps. Why am I writing this? Because colleges and universities here in the good old US of A are starting to do similar things. If nothing is done will that lead to similar behavior of the 1940s Europe toward its Jewish population?

This country can not hide behind its constitution and do nothing. They must declare martial law on hatred and discrimination. They must kill that behavior in its roots. But unfortunately, the liberals who are hiding behind free speech will block any such movement. When they will realize their mistakes unfortunately it will be too late.

Nice country America!