• Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 hours ago

    This is a bit of a misconception.

    Nietzche opposed a specific political group in Germany at the time called “The Anti-Semites”. So he has a lot of quotes where he complains about The Anti-Semites, but he isn’t really critiquing what we would consider antisemitism, but just this specific group and their ideology.

    And this was probably not because he opposed them, but because they were problematic allies. His sister would marry an Anti-Semite, become one herself, and his books would be published by The Anti-Semites after his death.

    I don’t have any of them handy at the moment, but Nietzche had many things to say about the Jews that would get him branded an antisemite by modern standards.