Why does everyone hate George Soros?

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🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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There are three things you need to know about George Soros: 1) You’re pronouncing his name wrong. 2) He’s richer than rich. 3) He’s one of the most hated people in the world. Roseanne tweeted that the Holocaust survivor was a Nazi on Tuesday, and Hungary is currently trying to pass legislation that would ban him. Foreign Policy’s Emily Tamkin explains how the financier-philanthropist came to have so many haters even though he gives away his money to the poor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first thing you need to know about George Soros is you're saying it wrong.
0:11.0	You say like Soros.
0:12.0	Soros, yeah.
0:13.0	Is that how you really say it?
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	That's important, is the whole world saying his name wrong?
0:16.9	I'm afraid so.
0:17.9	Really?
0:18.9	Yeah.
0:19.9	Well, let's start there.
0:21.6	The second thing you need to know is he's an investor who's got about as much money as
0:25.5	God.
0:26.5	A move world financial market simply by voicing an opinion or destabilize a government
0:31.1	by buying and selling its currency.
0:33.2	And the third thing is he might be one of the most hated people in the world.
0:38.3	I think that I've been playing for everything.
0:41.1	I am basically there to make money.
0:45.6	Remember on Tuesday when Roseanne got into all that trouble on Twitter?
0:49.6	Some of her tweets were about George Soros.
0:53.0	She called him a Nazi, even though he's a Holocaust survivor and a Jewish one to boot.
0:58.0	And Roseanne's just the tip of the iceberg.
1:00.1	George Soros has haters in different area codes from Washington to Warsaw.
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