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.
Showing posts with label Husserl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Husserl. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Monday, August 20, 2018
Sometimes it just seems right
Guilt by association, I mean.
Odds are, if you speak at a conference of this sort, you aren't there as an undercover FBI guy gathering info on people potentially linked to domestic terrorism.
Or a sane journo looking for an exclusive exposé.
This guy, of course, was neither.
Who is Darren Beattie? Donald Trump speechwriter fired over white nationalist conference ties.
MSNBC reported he was a close associate of Stephen Miller, who was himself a KA of Steve Bannon.
No surprise to find someone of this sort working for Steve Miller in Donald Trump's White House.
A Donald Trump speechwriter has been fired following the discovery that he appeared at a conference frequently attended by white nationalists.
The White House confirmed that Darren Beattie’s contract had been terminated after he was found to have spoken at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference alongside anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow.
“Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House,” spokesman Hogan Gidley told The Washington Post.
“We don’t comment on personnel matters.”
The H.L Mencken Club describes itself as an “organization for independent-minded intellectuals and academics of the Right.”
It started in 2008 and was named after the American journalist who once described Jews as “plausibly…the most unpleasant race ever heard of,” and an educated black person as being a “low-caste man” who will “remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.”
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Beattie confirmed his dismissal when approached by The Washington Post.
“In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely,” he said in a statement.
“It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.”
Beattie, who worked as a professor of political science at Duke University, openly supported Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Speaking to the Chronicle, a Duke newspaper, Beattie said that Trump’s hard-line immigration policies were the main reason he backed him.
His Ph.D. thesis was based on the teachings of Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who was also a member of the Nazi party, reported Forward.
Heidegger's work is regularly taught in courses on Phenomenological Existentialism, and grad students in philosophy not uncommonly write about Sein und Zeit and others of his major works.
But a political scientist would be focused precisely on his association with the Nazi Party and his relationship with his Jewish teacher, Edmund Husserl.
Odds are, if you speak at a conference of this sort, you aren't there as an undercover FBI guy gathering info on people potentially linked to domestic terrorism.
Or a sane journo looking for an exclusive exposé.
This guy, of course, was neither.
Who is Darren Beattie? Donald Trump speechwriter fired over white nationalist conference ties.
MSNBC reported he was a close associate of Stephen Miller, who was himself a KA of Steve Bannon.
No surprise to find someone of this sort working for Steve Miller in Donald Trump's White House.
The White House confirmed that Darren Beattie’s contract had been terminated after he was found to have spoken at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference alongside anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow.
“Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House,” spokesman Hogan Gidley told The Washington Post.
“We don’t comment on personnel matters.”
The H.L Mencken Club describes itself as an “organization for independent-minded intellectuals and academics of the Right.”
It started in 2008 and was named after the American journalist who once described Jews as “plausibly…the most unpleasant race ever heard of,” and an educated black person as being a “low-caste man” who will “remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.”
. . . .
Beattie confirmed his dismissal when approached by The Washington Post.
“In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely,” he said in a statement.
“It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.”
Beattie, who worked as a professor of political science at Duke University, openly supported Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Speaking to the Chronicle, a Duke newspaper, Beattie said that Trump’s hard-line immigration policies were the main reason he backed him.
His Ph.D. thesis was based on the teachings of Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who was also a member of the Nazi party, reported Forward.
Heidegger's work is regularly taught in courses on Phenomenological Existentialism, and grad students in philosophy not uncommonly write about Sein und Zeit and others of his major works.
But a political scientist would be focused precisely on his association with the Nazi Party and his relationship with his Jewish teacher, Edmund Husserl.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
"The Transcendental Ego Can never die."
A professor said that in a graduate seminar on Husserl, in an offhand criticism of Heidegger, at Duquesne University, some time around 1976, or so.
Though I suppose it might as well have been a Kant seminar.
But it wasn't.
A few years later, I had a graduate seminar on Kant at Pitt with Wilfie Sellars.
Of course, his was rather a different view.
I never had the least idea he was an alcoholic.
Apparently, he died of the effects, somehow.
Everybody dies of something.
I knew his disciple, Hoagland, drank a hell of a lot.
But not him.
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