Finally, Morris is pwning Gameboy!
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 07:17 PM)
She's right. The history of the West is a history of death and torture for those who opposed the powerful. From the burning of "witches," to the Crusades, to the destruction of Inca and Aztec civilization by the Spaniards, to the genocidal policies of American pioneers….
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 08:13 PM)
Genghis Khan and the Mongols killed nobody, right? They only committed genocide from China to Hungary. The Aztecs plundered their neighbors and committed bloody sacrifices to their gods. The Japanese and the rape of Nanking - I'm sure you've heard of that. This is a human problem, not a Western problem.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 07:14 PM)
You don't seem to know what a typo is. Either that or you use language very loosely and imprecisely, which is even worse. Claiming genetic superiority is old-fashioned, scientifically discredited racism. Claiming cultural superiority is still racism, still discredited, but of slightly later vintage. So you moved from Hitler-type racism to Samuel Huntington-type racism. Not a particularly moral or admirable shift, but you want to claim the latter is somehow defensible.
Basically, you made two distinct mistakes. The first one was truly awful, and you back-pedalled frantically. The second one is slightly less awful.
I love existentialism, but I can think of a page full of problems with it. It's been massively attacked by feminists for celebrating a peculiarly male-heroic version of crises overcome. Almost an entire generation of French feminists would dismiss Sartrean existentialism as utter crap. I'm sympathetic to their position. -
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 08:17 PM)
Nonsense! He had the largest public funeral any philosopher ever had (50, 000 people). He was probably the most important voice in philosophy for about half a century. He supported Marxism when it wasn't popular, he supported the Algerians though he received death threats from "good" Frenchmen for doing so, and he supported Fanon and fought against racism as no white philosopher has ever done. He was one of the greatest philosophers in the Western tradition. Ipse dixit.
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 08:24 PM)
but in the end he admitted Marxism failed on record which ruined the entire Western Marxistsphere for years
i kinda dug Sartre in high school. then i've read Being and Time in uni and realised what a ****ing joke Sartre actually is.
then i realised later that he treated women very badly especially taking advantage of vulnerable young women who he’d take in in return for sexual favours. he and Beauvoir took pleasure in this abuse of other women together and wrote each other lots of letters about it. seriously nasty couple.
**** Sartre. **** Beauvoir. plus both are vacuous writers.
suck it.
