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> Can you separate the cultural relevance those techniques have for us from the work they have done in a fascist context? I think you must be aware of them and
by throwaway316943 6y ago
> Can you separate the cultural relevance those techniques have for us from the work they have done in a fascist context?
I think you must be aware of them and learn from history but we shouldn’t abandon everything that was misused for evil purposes or we’d have nothing left. Worse than that we’d inevitably forget it and reinvent it and make the same mistakes being ignorant of the past. The wisest thing to do is to take those things and correct their flaws and turn them into something that can benefits everyone.
- whakim 6y agoThe author's claim isn't simply that they were "used for evil". The claim was that they are much more effectively employed in the service of evil than otherwise. I'm not positing a solution here, simply pointing out the extra degree of nuance.