• nifty@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ummm many fascists are disguised as intellectuals whose sophistry is only revealed by challenging their assumptions. There were a number of such people who came to rise in Nazi Germany and afterwards, and there are many who are their contemporaries

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      5 months ago

      Ummm many fascists are disguised as intellectuals

      exactly… and if I put on a ninja costume, I do not in fact become an ninja.

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        5 months ago

        Sorry but doesn’t make sense! There are people like Heidegger and Sam Harris who have partly useful contributions to intellectual and academic discourse, but their overarching worldview is authoritarian or fascism aligned. My point is: people multiclass all the time, and you cannot and should not underestimate your ideological opponents