The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

"Cancel culture"

What unites young people against Obama and Trump

Maybe they just didn't dare write "What unites Trump and Obama against young people".

US President Donald Trump appears to be making it a central part of his re-election campaign. 

He has deemed cancel culture "far-left fascism", saying it is "driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees...is the very definition of totalitarianism".

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Last October, former President Barack Obama challenged cancel culture and the idea of being "woke" - a term describing being alert to injustices and what's going on in the community - saying change was complex.

"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people," Mr Obama said.

"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."

What would they make of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger's masterpiece from the 20's?

Would they insist it no longer be taught at those schools that actually teach anything about continental philosophy at all?

He later became a Nazi to take Husserl's chair, but the book already had a kind of fascist/futurist feel to it.

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