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How does this person square the inclusion of Yukio Mishima on their reading list with their supposed personal "lefty, hippy-dippy, queer, equality-loving, anti-
by pram 5y ago
How does this person square the inclusion of Yukio Mishima on their reading list with their supposed personal "lefty, hippy-dippy, queer, equality-loving, anti-racist, anti-ablist, anti-lookist, anti-anti-semitism, gender-equal, anti-colonialist, anti-all-the-bad-things, pro-all-the-good-and-kind-things" philosophy?
A man who was a Japanese ultra-nationalist, and functionally a fascist, who tried to start a military coup. It's just because he isn't white? Much diversity, very intersectional!
- coldtea 5y ago>How does this person square the inclusion of Yukio Mishima on their reading list Perhaps based on his literary achievement. Maybe he doesn't use personal and political flaws as the basis for his inclusion in a reading list, but actual writing quality. Who would have thought? Or perhaps he has this idea that the value of literature is to introduce us to different view points and aspects and ways of thinking (provided the writing is good), and nothing is off limits. In other words, he doesn't have Disney criteria.
- smt88 5y agoIn college, I had to read excerpts from Mein Kampf as part of a unit on the Holocaust, which was one part of a course on Abrahamic religions. Good college professors will teach both sides of historical arguments and/or include authors with complicated legacies.