I think it’s pretty funny that you’ve just become openly anti-intellectual, though. There’s now multiple subthreads where you’ve disgracefully taken on the most stereotypical image of an anarchist telling the adults that bed time (good epistemology) is fascist. If you can’t be arsed to read through an argument, what (if not arrogance) makes you feel the need to refute it?
What’s a good argument, then? Citing Orwell and Arendt? Fangirling over slave-owning Greek lesbians on Tumblr? What’s the rhetorical magnum opus of the online-anarchist cultural milieu?
It’s not just her racism, which was really horrible even for the time, it’s the way that she was a zealously driven anticommunist to the point that she had to use her racism to justify why the “totalitarianism” she observed in the commonalities between the USSR and Nazi Germany didn’t also describe Western liberal countries. Spoiler alert: every crime you can accuse the USSR of committing was done an order of magnitude more by the British Empire.
I trace back the infantile anti-authoritarian arguments of today to Arendt. The fantasy of the Orientals being subhumans that just have to submit themselves to an authoritarian government, as opposed to our free and democratic Western governments, is incredibly pervasive even in the left.
If you want my undivided attention, tankie, you should have a word with your fellow tankies about the brigade you launched on this post.
I think it’s pretty funny that you’ve just become openly anti-intellectual, though. There’s now multiple subthreads where you’ve disgracefully taken on the most stereotypical image of an anarchist telling the adults that bed time (good epistemology) is fascist. If you can’t be arsed to read through an argument, what (if not arrogance) makes you feel the need to refute it?
You call the shit you tankies spout “arguments?”
What’s a good argument, then? Citing Orwell and Arendt? Fangirling over slave-owning Greek lesbians on Tumblr? What’s the rhetorical magnum opus of the online-anarchist cultural milieu?
I know you tankies are sore at Orwell for calling out your realpoliticking horseshit… but what is your problem with Arendt now?
Racism, you complete blockhead. She was a horrendous racist.
(also true of Orwell)
It’s not just her racism, which was really horrible even for the time, it’s the way that she was a zealously driven anticommunist to the point that she had to use her racism to justify why the “totalitarianism” she observed in the commonalities between the USSR and Nazi Germany didn’t also describe Western liberal countries. Spoiler alert: every crime you can accuse the USSR of committing was done an order of magnitude more by the British Empire.
I trace back the infantile anti-authoritarian arguments of today to Arendt. The fantasy of the Orientals being subhumans that just have to submit themselves to an authoritarian government, as opposed to our free and democratic Western governments, is incredibly pervasive even in the left.
It was a serious question, tankie - I’ve never read much of Arendt’s work.
Maybe read the essay I cited!