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Your list of people you admire is going to be pretty damn short if the criteria is “never espoused something horrible”. And I wonder if people who have a recor

• EdwardDiego 3y ago
  There's a spectrum of horror when it comes to beliefs. And how much suffering they are related to is important. And I can discern "considered horrible now, but culturally normal for the time". Something like Hemingway's misogyny is gross, but culturally common at the time, and no-one who read his books tried to murder all the women. Not that he's a personal hero. Ford buying a newspaper just to warn people about the International Jewry that started WW1 wasn't culturally normal outside of certain far-right groups. And most likely the future will judge my beliefs a bit, I support the rights of women to access abortion. I'm sure in a few hundred years, abortion will be viewed as a crude intervention only practiced because our medicine was so primitive. Or my belief that human rights are more important than animal rights.
  • refurb 3y ago
    > WW1 wasn't culturally normal outside of certain far-right groups. That's absolutely not true. Anti-semitism was prevalent in the mainstream in the early 20th century. Not all that different than racism against blacks. Hell, look at surveys in part of Europe. Anti-semitism is a sizeable minority now. Imagine what it was like a century ago.