2. Like dissenter and non-conformist, free thinker is now a catch all phrase but it has a specific history: its the tradition of politically active secularists that emerged in Enlightenment.
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3. As Susan Jacoby shows in her excellent 2004 book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularisml freethinkers included the Deist and skeptical Founding Fathers (Jefferson, Paine, etc) & later, abolitionists & radicals (Susan B. Anthony, WEB Du Bois)
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4. One crucial point is that "freethought" was not just a substantial body of ideas but also a political community with specific radical agenda: separation of church & state, abolitionism, feminism, birth control
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5. Kanye West's version of free thought is very different than this tradition, for reasons I explore here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148213/kanye-wests-bastardization-free-thinkers …
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Free from thinking?
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You know, in the same vein as Jim Jones
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Do we really care that Kanye now fancies himself an expert in existentialism?
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Just so I'm clear, is "free thinker" just someone who refuses to read books?
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The guy has mental issues. Seriously. Let's ignore...please?
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one who can sprout nonsense without being tethered to annoying things like facts and history.
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