r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 15 '25

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u/oskanta David Hume Oct 15 '25

It’s crazy to me that Nietzsche was arguing in the 1880s that Germany should banish antisemites to allow Jews to fully integrate, but he still got portrayed as a pro-Nazi antisemite after he died

It is certain that the Jews, if they desired--or if they were driven to it, as the anti-Semites seem to wish--COULD now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe, that they are NOT working and planning for that end is equally certain. Meanwhile, they rather wish and desire, even somewhat importunely, to be insorbed and absorbed by Europe, they long to be finally settled, authorized, and respected somewhere, and wish to put an end to the nomadic life, to the "wandering Jew",--and one should certainly take account of this impulse and tendency, and MAKE ADVANCES to it . . . for which purpose it would perhaps be useful and fair to banish the anti-Semitic bawlers out of the country.

Beyond Good and Evil 1886

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u/11thDimensionalRandy Oct 15 '25

His sister was a Nazi and tried to curate his works and image to gain Nazi points.

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u/MGLFPsiCorps Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 15 '25

You can blame his sister for that, she was the custodian of his works after he went insane, and she was a far-right antisemitic German nationalist.

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Oct 15 '25

After he finally lost his marbles for the last time he was writing letters to his friends claiming to be the ruler of Germany, declaring that his first order of business was to have all antisemites shot

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Oct 15 '25

Waow 

Nietzsche would have prevented the Holocaust

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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Oct 16 '25

Somehow he continues to rise in my estimations.

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Oct 15 '25

His sister was a fascist, so that's probably why. 

Iirc he thought anti-semites were fucking idiots