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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 17 Aug 2017

    Nietzsche isn't pietzsche: Though not a racist or nationalist, he inspired Nazis, fascists, now the alt-right.https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/nietzsche-richard-spencer-alt-right-nazism?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

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      1. Badger Mash‏ @BadgerMash 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not least because he was so appallingly edited and misrepresented by his sister.

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      2. (((Colin Wight)))‏ @colwight 17 Aug 2017
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        This easy reminds me of all those attempts to get at the "real" bible or the "real" Qur'an. It's impossible.

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      3. Jayson Leek‏ @JaysonLeek 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @colwight @sapinker

        Exactly. If someone wants to take the Bible or the Quran or Nietzsche and bend it to their own nefarious agenda, this is easily achieved

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      1. ThePrussian‏ @ThePrussian1 17 Aug 2017
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        Except that Nietzsche despised anti-Semitism, and warned about both the world wars and the Holocaust, well in advance

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      1. Jan Haugland‏ @JanHaugland 17 Aug 2017
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        Nietzsche had a big falling out with Wagner over antisemitism. His ideas were grossly distorted by his sister.

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      2. ♕Deborah G. Mayo♕‏ @learnfromerror 18 Aug 2017
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        You can thank his sister for the gross distortions, motivated by a desire for fame and encouraged by her anti-semitic husband

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      3. Ignazio Ziano‏ @ignaziano 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @learnfromerror @sapinker

        Same as Cosima Wagner with her husband Richard wagner, the composer

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      4. ♕Deborah G. Mayo♕‏ @learnfromerror Feb 24
        Replying to @ignaziano @sapinker

        As you know, N famously turned against Wagner. Of course, in my remark from long ago, I don't mean that bad rdings of N aren't also responsible for completely turning his views upside down. N knew he would therefore be dangerous (for many who would not understand him).

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      1. Little bit less‏ @whoisDanScott 17 Aug 2017
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        People misreading Nietzsche is one of those things that tells you all you need to know about that person/group.pic.twitter.com/laZPRRoXzn

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      1.  🦉 Wisdomination  🦉‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW 17 Aug 2017
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        Problems started with Hegel, Fichte, Rousseau. Subsequent totalitarianisms are heirs of German idealism and romanticism.

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      2. Humean Being‏ @MetaHumean 17 Aug 2017
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        Nietzsche was a complicated guy.

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      3. Pauel Hansen‏ @stratonician 17 Aug 2017
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        "[O]ne has neither heard nor even seen me ... Hear me! I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else" EH P. §1

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      4. Pauel Hansen‏ @stratonician 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @stratonician @MetaHumean @sapinker

        As an aside, this is quite a companionable volume, conveying vividly that place/locale strongly influenced Nietzsche https://www.amazon.com/Good-European-Nietzsches-Sites-Image/dp/0226452794 …

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      1. Discerning Person™‏ @M_Discerning 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        His work was misinterpreted by Nazism. They did the same to Beethoven and Frederick The Great. It was cultural - historical manipulation.

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      2. Probably Trolling‏ @Q_State_Fun 17 Aug 2017
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        How many Nietzsche fans I've met who've only read the front and back cover...

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      1. Joseph E Funderburk‏ @jfthrips 17 Aug 2017
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        Nietzsche wrote in 1880's that PanGermanism was passion overriding reason and would lead to no good. So he predicted rise and fall of Nazis.

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      1. Micky Solo‏ @solomicky2 17 Aug 2017
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        And influenced (inspired?) just about every single philosopher and public intellectual in the last 150 or so years

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