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Except it isn’t about quoting. Many on the right claim that Orwell, Camus, etc were in-fact right wing and hated the left because they disagreed with extremist
by fjdjsmsm 6y ago
Except it isn’t about quoting. Many on the right claim that Orwell, Camus, etc were in-fact right wing and hated the left because they disagreed with extremist Stalinists and such.
It is much like religious people claiming Einstein was religious.
It seems to be a common tactic to rebrand people as believing in the opposite of what they did.
- amadeuspagel 6y agoIt is very much about quoting. Gingrich did not say that Camus was right wing. Nor have I ever heard that claim.
- cambalache 6y agoCamus was a leftist who was against Stalinism, I am pretty sure he would have abhorred the Cultural Revolution in China and the woke brigade now.
- fjdjsmsm 6y agoSo, Maoism and ‘the woke brigade’ are the same thing? This is exactly my point. Thanks.
- cambalache 6y agoIf you dont like vanilla and you dont like chocolate are both those the same thing? This your standard of debate. Camus, a free-thinker, womanizer, pied-noir,who reached across the aisle during the war writing to a German friend, it is the antithesis of the current woke, liberal,sex-repressed,pro-foreign-intervention, cancel-everybody-who-dares-to-think-different-to-me woke crowd so common in Twitter and here.