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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
What you just did here:
It's the "greatest crimes of the 20th century" objection to humanism that made the rounds a decade ago from the Jerry Falwell brigade rearing its head. The implication is that humanism is prone to blinding itself to morality in favour of cold scientific analysis, and as a result, is susceptible to the absolute worst sort of evil. It represents revisionist history and an attempt to attribute the blame for these atrocities to a non-causal factor. I'm not going to re-litigate the whole argument that I had thought was dead and buried years ago, but that's what I was talking about.
Good use of the Truman meme, though.
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I try to keep my memes dank.
The fact is, whether you want to admit it or not, it's the same philosophy behind white nationalism. In a pure philosophical point of view, its oppressive and negative.
I just find humanism to be either a fairly easy gateway to some pretty heinous ideas, or so mundane, pointless, and presumptuous that it's laughable people would even label themselves that way. People who gather in groups or proclaim their humanism tend not to be gathering for nothing, though.
I was mostly laughing at how just being a proponent of human rights and the rejection of a lot of the "this is how the real left should act" diatribe that goes on makes me "far left."