• @ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    102 years ago

    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.

    • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      42 years ago

      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.

    • QueerCommie
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      12 years ago

      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.

      • @ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • QueerCommie
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          12 years ago

          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.