Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Feels a bit iffy to use a Sartre quote, especially as he was a vitriolic defender and supporter of Israel. Not to mention a general piece of shit human who supported pedophila.
Sartre was a tool, a creep, a pedophile, but in this instance his quote makes sense. But as I type this, I agree it feels really disgusting to use a quote from him.
Sartre’s not too bad. He’s an undialectical comrade, and he defended not promoting the notion that gulags were evil. He had some interesting philosophy. Obviously Israel shouldn’t have been supported, but the USSR supported them at the time and it wasn’t as blatant then.
He was very bad. He considered himself an “unprincipled Maoist”, then claimed he was always an anarchist, he opposed the Soviet Union, and that’s all before you get to the very VERY long list of issues with his political beliefs and philosophies.
That’s before getting into the bizarre justifications and desires of pedophilia.
I don’t think he opposed the USSR, he just wasn’t a tankie. He’s a bit all over the place, but I still have some respect for him. I still gotta read a lot of his stuff.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Feels a bit iffy to use a Sartre quote, especially as he was a vitriolic defender and supporter of Israel. Not to mention a general piece of shit human who supported pedophila.
Sartre was a tool, a creep, a pedophile, but in this instance his quote makes sense. But as I type this, I agree it feels really disgusting to use a quote from him.
Reported to the admins, we don’t allow pedophile opinions here apparently.
Sartre’s not too bad. He’s an undialectical comrade, and he defended not promoting the notion that gulags were evil. He had some interesting philosophy. Obviously Israel shouldn’t have been supported, but the USSR supported them at the time and it wasn’t as blatant then.
He was very bad. He considered himself an “unprincipled Maoist”, then claimed he was always an anarchist, he opposed the Soviet Union, and that’s all before you get to the very VERY long list of issues with his political beliefs and philosophies.
That’s before getting into the bizarre justifications and desires of pedophilia.
I don’t think he opposed the USSR, he just wasn’t a tankie. He’s a bit all over the place, but I still have some respect for him. I still gotta read a lot of his stuff.