What do you think of this 60 Minutes interview of George Soros by Steve Croft?
Full interview (the quoted part starts at 7:41. You can watch the whole 60 minutes clip if you want to see more context):
Kroft: You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.
Soros: Right.
Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Soros: Right. I was fourteen years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
Kroft: In what way?
Soros: That one should think ahead, one should understand and and anticipate events. And one is threatened, it was a tremendous threat of evil, I mean it was a very personal experience of evil.
Kroft: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Soros: Yes, yes, yes.
Kroft: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Soros: That's right. Yes.
Kroft: That sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't, you don't see the connection. Uh, but it was, it created no problem at all.
Kroft: No feeling of guilt?
Soros: No.
Kroft: For example, "I'm Jewish, and here I am watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there." None of that?
Soros: Well, of course I could be on the other side, I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. Uh, but there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was. Well actually, funny way, it's just like in markets, that if I weren't there, of course I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. And it was whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
Update - for how George Soros is relevant to American politics:
WT: Kavanaugh's accuser and the curious George Soros links
Full interview (the quoted part starts at 7:41. You can watch the whole 60 minutes clip if you want to see more context):
Kroft: You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.
Soros: Right.
Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Soros: Right. I was fourteen years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
Kroft: In what way?
Soros: That one should think ahead, one should understand and and anticipate events. And one is threatened, it was a tremendous threat of evil, I mean it was a very personal experience of evil.
Kroft: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Soros: Yes, yes, yes.
Kroft: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Soros: That's right. Yes.
Kroft: That sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't, you don't see the connection. Uh, but it was, it created no problem at all.
Kroft: No feeling of guilt?
Soros: No.
Kroft: For example, "I'm Jewish, and here I am watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there." None of that?
Soros: Well, of course I could be on the other side, I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. Uh, but there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was. Well actually, funny way, it's just like in markets, that if I weren't there, of course I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. And it was whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
Update - for how George Soros is relevant to American politics:
WT: Kavanaugh's accuser and the curious George Soros links
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