Many of the NGO:s have been actively working for mass-immigration, color revolutions in eastern Europe, drug-liberalization and a stronger EU.
If you are against any of those things, you may very well think that Soros influence on the world is a net-negative.
And he has been criticized for it, long before the first Russo-ukrainian war in 2014.
Though as Soros is normally acting as a gray cardinal through his money, the criticism of him tends to become abstract and stupidly conspiratorial.
That definitely creates a lot of enemies.
It seems to resemble in use the term "political correctness", just even more so and snappier. It's very useful if you want to denigrate something without an actual discussion of why you're unhappy with it.
It's pretty specific.
I don't know enough about those other topics to ask similar questions, but my educated estimate is at least as much disparity between the origins and typical teaching of those topics compared with the politicized version. It really impedes practical communication on these topics when one side decides to run away with their own definition unmoored from consensual reality.
This is completely incompatible with individual based rights that the western world grew on for the last 50-100-150 years. And by west I mean a broad amount of countries not just the US.
Furthermore, one of the main concepts it uses is intersectionality, which is that all of us belong to multiple categories, e.g. while I’m in a local majority for being white (of skin, and sadly now also a few hairs), I’m also bi, left handed (that used to be seen as sinister, and is literally the etymological origin of the term), and a few other things.
This is pretty much the opposite of what you’re saying it is. However, what you say it is, is what I think most opponents of CRT think it is.
“Gender theory”… well, I googled, and that seems to be a non-standard term for both (a) gender studies, and (b) the anti-gender movement. The latter appears to be a catch-all for various otherwise disconnected groups whose only commonality is their opposition to the former. And I have no idea which one of these (if either) you’re criticising.
At some point he formed an opinion that Hungarian society would be better off if vaguely political organisations had more printers and copiers. (An local organisation to oppose tearing down an old building counts as political in this context. Really anything to do with civil society.)
So he bought several thousand laser printers/copiers and gave them to ~everyone. Several of the thousands went to fairly nasty organisations.