It was implied in the "rogue's gallery" of racists and fascists you inserted Kant in, that the main benefit of studying these figures was to strengthen one's mind and arguments against their political and racist ideas. The idea that that is why we should study Kant is ludicrous.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
It is *a* possible reason to study Kant, but to think Kant's most important ideas are inextricably tied to his biological racism or to think of him first and foremost as a biological racist is just silly, no matter how many people can get professional traction by claiming it.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
Again, you're arguing with claims I never made (that Kant is "first and foremost....a biological racist.") Can you focus on what I wrote and not what you think I wrote?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Every other figure on the list except Kant is known primarily by the layperson for having heinous political or racial views. A list of racist and/or fascist thinkers would include those figures; a list of philosophers with certain heinous views would include Kant, Mill, Rousseau.pic.twitter.com/nre8Q3f6YA
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
Every person on that list is known and taught for their intellectual and/or literary accomplishments. And they should in fact be taught, as I repeatedly said.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
This you making the case that Kant is a representative of “white nationalist thought”?pic.twitter.com/cPXcrlzxQn
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
For reference you were talking about this same listpic.twitter.com/7IdCCeDPVo
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Replying to @InfiniteTask @HeerJeet
I am not supporting Hanania’s point at all but you were including Kant on a list of serious and canonical (as opposed to trashy) big names of the intellectual Mt. Rushmore of white nationalism.
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Replying to @InfiniteTask
White nationalism owes something to biological racism. I don't see why that's a shocking or upsetting claim.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You were making a stronger claim than that. You're not saying white nationalism owes something to the broader phenomenon of white racism (an obviously true claim). You're saying if you wanna read a good fascist/white nationalist author (if only to critique), here are some guys.pic.twitter.com/pdl79nF0kM
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I was responding to Hanania's claim that fascist & white nationalist authors taught & no one is calling for them to be taught. I'm not saying that the only reason to read these writers is for genealogy fascism & white nationalism but that is one use they have.
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