Saturday 3 February 2018

George Soros Saying His Life’s Mission Is To Destroy The United States Is A Fake Quote


Did George Soros say that his life’s mission was to destroy the United States and all of its citizens with it is a fake quote. Despite a circulating meme on social media suggesting that the Hungarian-American billionaire of liberal cause made an outrageous desire to destroy the United States and its people, there is no concrete evidence that Soros ever spoke those words.


Soros founded the Open Society Foundations (OSF) which financially supports civil society groups around the world, with a stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media. Since its founding, OSF reported expenditures of over $11 billion. Soros has been the victim of many fake memes, news, tweets and photographs. This is another one in a long list of them.


Now, some users on social media are suggesting that Soros made an evil quote much like a villain from a James Bond film. The fake quote reads: “I’ve made my life’s mission to destroy the United States. I hate this country and I hate all of the people in it.” Where did this quote originate? Well, here are some examples of people sharing the fake Soros quote on social media.














While the meme claims that Soros made this quote in an unspecified issue of Newsweek in 1979, Snopes found no evidence that the quote ever existed. Rather, Snopes reported a variant of the Soros quote from an August 2011 Breitbart.com article in which the author blames attributes to Soros of having said “Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.”


Although this quote was shared among far-right blogs and web sites in 2010 as seen in The American Jingoist, in which they wrote that Soros gave an interview to The Australian saying, “America, as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.”


Snopes noted that what Soros actually said can be found in his 2009 interview with The Australian. You can decide from this interview, what point Soros was exactly trying to make. Nowhere, does Soros directly state that he is working to destroy the United States as part of his life’s mission.


Soros wrote in the introduction to his book, “The Age of Fallibility,” that “changing the attitude and policies of the United States remains my top priority.” In 2006, Newsweek reported that Soros has promoted political change around the world, particularly in the former Soviet Union, but has not yet succeeded to crack the conservative hold on American politics.


What did you think of the fake quote that Soros was quoted saying that his life’s mission is to destroy the United States? Did you believe the fake quote or see people sharing it falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.


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