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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 22:54:23 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   Seeing “philosophy” often lately used as code for far-right content, e.g. in social media profiles

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:06:12 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Tony Novak

     @Onlineadviser they’re using the word “philosophy” as code to other right-wingers to talk about their brainworms, not actual philosophy

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     Tony Novak (onlineadviser@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:06:13 JST Tony Novak

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     @thomasfuchs Interesting. I don’t see that but will now look out for it. In my rural community I’m more likely to get blowback from ‘city education’ as the reason I ‘ain’t got no common sense’. They are strongly opposed to philosophical approaches to real life issues.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:07:22 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Tim Gatewood

     @timgatewood it’s like they usurp other words, like “woke”, it’s one of the main right-wing playbook things

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     Tim Gatewood (timgatewood@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:07:23 JST Tim Gatewood

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     @thomasfuchs That's very disturbing to someone who actually has a degree in philosophy, such as I do. Philosophy can obviously be used by right, left, center, or extremes -- but if one group is trying to make it a tribal identifier to the exclusion of wider uses, that's evil, IMHO.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:12:57 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Tim Gatewood

     @timgatewood Think about how “we’re just discussing philosophy over here” sounds versus “we’re just discussing mass murder of people we don’t like over here”

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     Tim Gatewood (timgatewood@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 23:12:58 JST Tim Gatewood

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     @thomasfuchs They take positive words or words that describe positive things & redefine them. But philosophy? That's such a weird choice for that treatment.

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     abm0 (abm0@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:57:11 JST abm0

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     @thomasfuchs To be fair, when Marxism started spreading in hostile environments it was also presented as philosophy, and Marx stealth-quoted as "a German philosopher explains that xyz" etc. Philosophy isn't only the ideas about life and the universe that you happen to agree with.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:57:11 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • abm0

     @abm0 Marxism is an actual political philosophy.

     On the other hand "kill everyone you don't like" is not an actual political philosophy.