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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 557 — Amb. David Pressman

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ambassador David Pressman has spent decades working on human rights, from positions at the White House to years as a human rights lawyer and nonprofit leader. He is continuing to fight for human rights and democracy as the current Ambassador to Hungary, but this time with added significance—he serves as a gay man in a country enacting increasingly anti-LGBT legislation. He joined David to talk about supporting LGBT rights in Hungary, how the state-run media has made him a target, and the threat of Vladimir Putin and Russia to democracy is Hungary and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the Axswiles. With your host, David Axel. in CNN audio, The Axyles.

0:43.2

With your host David Axelrod.

0:46.6

In June, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, whose gay gave a moving and courageous

0:51.9

speech at the opening of a pride event in Budapest.

0:55.0

Here's a small part of it.

0:58.0

History teaches us when government starts discriminating against one group, whether for who they love or what they believe, their politics, their race, the color of their skin, others are usually not far behind.

1:10.0

It begins with innocent sounding laws to protect the children.

1:15.0

But then we are asked to report on our neighbors, our friends, and our families.

1:21.0

Ghettos of the mind, ghettos in our politics, and ultimately ghettos in our communities, are built brick by brick. The silence of many is the mortar sealing our face.

1:36.0

Good people who believe in their bones never again,

1:41.0

must never forget how it begins.

1:44.8

The path to the unthinkable isn't built overnight.

1:47.8

It is taken step by step, and it is paved with hate,

1:51.1

opportunism, and complicity.

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It was a fourth right challenge to the government of Victor Orban, the Prime Minister who has targeted

1:59.2

gay people, and has made media censorship of political opposition

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