oh my fuck. that is actually woodrow wilson on that cover
closest thing the US has had to Klan member president, a leftist.
hey now, truman joined the klan back in missouri cuz it was the thing to do for democrats
closest thing the US has had to Klan member president
William McKinley Erasure.
like was he in it or just racist? i cant find any source claiming he was in it
It has been alleged that McKinley, Wilson, Harding, and Truman were all members.
But there is nothing definitely linking McKinley.
Mckinley specifically only turns up in articles about an article that google was grabbing and quick-answering that he was. and the man died before the second wave of the klan. highly unlikely he was
Jesus fucking christ. I mean, i know its still absolutely bullshit to call them out, but at least lenin and stalin had bodycounts; i can kind of understand hating them if you're an ahistoric lib. But my man Nietzsche didn't do shit, all he did was write a few books and then get taken advantage of by a literal nazi while he was disabled and/or dead.
Its a small thing i guess but i'm legit so salty about what history, his sister, and the nazis did to a guy that basically just amounts to a poetic emo :angery:
But my man Nietzsche didn’t do shit, all he did was write a few books
Coming from the folks that think Karl Marx murdered 100 Zillion people...
This is just the history nerd's equivalent of Fighting Your Dad. Pick a few top names in history. Be mad at them. Claim you don't like murder. Use this to justify a new generation of murders. Have kids. Raise them to hate Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, Howard Zinn, Fidel Castro, and Deng Xiaoping in equal measure.. Repeat.
Who is the guy between FDR and Nietzsche?
Also Hegel made it on the board but not Marx, lol.
Isn’t he like, a founding conservative ethics guy? Someone told me that Idk if that's legit.
The enlightenment era philosophers are ambiguous enough where you can mold them into whatever you'd like. There's stuff within Kant's writing that can't be read as anything except a criticism of what would later be coined as capitalism. Then you have his views on morality which can be seen as diametrically opposed to Marx's analysis of how morality is shaped by material realities
Oh yes, Kant kind of has generic 18th century white guy face, no swag, unlike my man Robespierre.
Imagine if they'd put both Stirner and Hegel on the cover but not Marx lmao
It's Immanuel Kant, I recognize it from one of my shitty books. Unclear on how exactly he's related to "the left", but I'm also unclear on what the fuck these clowns think the left is.
*EDIT I thought the person i was replying to said "center" and I didn't see the "-left" part, Kant is in the center and FDR is the guy on the center-left.
Hegel expounded on a lot of Kant's work, and Marx and Engels expounded on Hegel expounding on Kant and then Lenin had something to say about it too and suddenly Kant is a communist
Looks like he Kant escape guilt by association :stalin-garrison:
My favorite Kant story is where he's talking to a priest about how much women suck and are bad, and a black dude working on a nearby roof is like "See? You fucked up when you gave those broads any rights. If you guys hadn't fucked up and given them any rights, they wouldn't be able to do all this shit that pisses you guys off." Kant responded by pointing out that the black guy was black, and therefore everything he said had to be "quite stupid".
- EDIT I'm pretty sure Kant was the one who said asian people were incapable of morality as well, but i could be wrong, it's been years.
Yeah, I thought the person said center and didn't see the "-left" part.
They were all murderous leftists.
If you want me to explain, you need to buy my book.
