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

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

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

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

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

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @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

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @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.