The RMDSZ's Total Incompetence on Any Ordinary Day

The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Days released this image film targeting the Romanian population, made with the Hungarian-sympathizing comedian-marketer-influencer Bogdan "Haurențiu" Rădulescu. According to the text, the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Days are of fundamental importance, since here Hungarians can meet their own kind, exactly as Romanians do at the Romanian Days in Cluj-Napoca.

The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Days are organized by the RMDSZ. ▸ Of course.

Before I share my opinion of the video, readers should first test their own knowledge and watch the video:

I would bet a large sum that they found it fine – just like the commenters:

• That's how it's done!

• What a good person you are, Bob!

• Thank you, etc.

Whether Bob is a good person, I won't dispute.

The question is how the organizing RMDSZ fared with this film in terms of whether it possesses even an amateur level of competence in the area of the goals it has put down on paper.

After all, according to its own statute, the RMDSZ is:

the advocacy, representation and interest-reconciliation association of the Hungarian national community in Romania, which serves the protection, preservation and development of national identity, the achievement of economic and social equality of opportunity [...]

It is important to see that from the quoted part of the statute, not only the promised activity and goal emerge, but also that the RMDSZ is not an association, but The association, and accordingly the RMDSZ systematically pushes everyone else out of this field, thereby also taking on responsibility, through this exclusion, for actually achieving the goals it has set out.

This is why it is a primary question whether it even understands what it has taken on: over the past 36 years, during which essentially (formal) progress in the field of minority rights occurred because of the country's forced compliance with the conditions of Euro-Atlantic accession, not because of the RMDSZ, whether the tulip-reds at least learned something, since they haven't carried out any useful activity.

The video shows that they haven't.

The RMDSZ's only success is that in 36 years it has managed to ensure that even the viewers of the video, the RMDSZ's own voters, do not notice the fundamental principled and methodological error they have committed. Incidentally, the video made by the RMDSZ also reinforces an incorrect attitude in the Romanian viewer.

Moreover, I somehow don't see the system-conforming opposition's "Movement for a More Equal Transylvania," headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, and its "minority experts" noticing such things and protesting that the video is inappropriate, and that it even reverses the results that organizations dealing with this issue, with professional assistance, and other independent civil actors have achieved by going against the RMDSZ.

It's no wonder the Movement for a More Equal Transylvania doesn't protest either, since the Kiss-Toró duo, who have been living off Hungarian and Romanian public money for years, also don't understand the subject moreover, there are countless problems with their motivation as well; for example, Tamás Kiss's own CV is still not available in Hungarian on the essentially monolingual website of the government institution dealing with minorities, even though we pointed this out to them a month ago — but who cares. They're waiting for the next "gal" or some outsider from South America who will notice something on their behalf, and who can then be conveniently robbed.

Let's take pity on them and finally reveal to them what's wrong with this video too.

Of course, there is officially no "Romanian Days of Cluj-Napoca," only "Cluj-Napoca Days." And that's how it should be. At Cluj-Napoca's events, especially the official ones, it would be normal to see Hungarian cultural presence and signage too, since the Hungarian minority is still part of Cluj-Napoca, and moreover Cluj-Napoca is also a kind of scientific and cultural capital for Hungarians in Romania. Completely independent of whether there happen to also be "Hungarian Days" in the city.

It is worth recalling that, for example, the Hungarian-language sign at the entrance to the Christmas market in the main square was only put up in the end after being urged both by locally formed elite organizations and by activists independent of the RMDSZ, and also that the Hungarian press defended the RMDSZ deputy mayor who was merely "trial-postering."

Just because there are various music days, exhibitions, science days, sports days, or a film festival, music, art, science, sports events, or film screenings are not banished from Cluj-Napoca Days. Just because there is, say, a Museums' Night, museums are not banished from Cluj-Napoca Days. Just because there are student days and a children's day in Cluj-Napoca, youth and children's programs are not excluded from Cluj-Napoca Days either — since the city consists of its own component parts. The same should hold true for Hungarians as well, since Cluj-Napoca's Hungarians, the students studying there, and the people working there also belong to Cluj-Napoca, even if unfortunately not as naturally as in the other examples mentioned here.

It seems the RMDSZ imagined the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Days the way Eastern Europe imagines International Women's Day: women get flowers on that one day, for some reason, which makes it much easier to ensure that the rest of the days are not theirs. Indeed, one can even jokingly grumble that there's no Men's Day, of all things.

In any case, let it be stated clearly that the RMDSZ could not, even as a joke, have Cluj-Napoca Days called "Romanian Days of Cluj-Napoca" on "its own" budget, since in theory the RMDSZ's goal is "achieving social equality for Hungarians in Romania." Instead, they themselves take an active part in ensuring that public opinion increasingly views this official event — which in theory is for everyone, and in theory is about everyone — as "Romanian Days," even though, compared to the name pushed by the RMDSZ, there are at least some programs with Hungarian relevance, and there is a quality Hungarian translation of the program booklet, which probably wasn't even the "Romanian-Days-ifying" RMDSZ's idea either. It is unacceptable that every single weekday and Sunday, they work not on developing this, but on dismantling it.