(03-28-2020, 02:41 AM)PaulP date Wrote:There's nothing alt-right or racist in his philosophy. His sister Elizabeth, who certainly was racist and outlived Nietzsche, re-presented his ideas in dubious and incorrect ways that facilitated a link to racist / hard right groups. Much the same way that Reagan co-opted, or tried to co-opt, Born In The USA, as propaganda.First, I'll concede that Nietzsche's intent was probably different from the outcome, I too do not believe he was racist, but his language was dangerous.
Often it's how something is written not what their intent might be, the unintended consequences of loose language, the language of systematic and endemic slavery and oppression as a natural outcome or phenomenon of society. It infers an inequality, a lesser class.
A complication is that language changes with generations, something quite moderate in the 1900s might be consider radical in the 2000s.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

