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Nietzche was definitely not about helping people lol. More like, "wouldn't it be rad if we killed all weak people and races? Also socialists and women too."
Tell me you've never read Nietzsche without saying you've never read Nietzsche
People will get on this site and say literally anything that happens to be rattling around in their head
As someone who has actually never read Nietzsche, but some years ago did a course in college that had him, I have to ask: What is so wrong about Dessalines description of Nietzsche?
My takeaway from the course was that he was sort of a proto-fascist saying that society was divided between the weak and the strong, and if wasn't for certain institutions that "glorify" the weak like the Judeo-Christian religions, the strong would rightfully subjugate the weak.
If that is a wrong view of his work I'm open for other interpretations.
Nietzsche's political views are unclear at best. He often writes hyperbolically and ironically (sarcastically?) so quoting scattered sentences from his works proves nothing.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/nietzsche.html
All direct quotes from Nietzche:
Obviously Nietzsche had reactionary politics. But that's not what you said, now is it? Are you going to quote any of his writings that indicate "it be rad if we killed all weak people and races? Also socialists and women too."“
This is just the same (lazy) warmed-over guilt by association from the Nazis' vulgar interpretations of his works
Not really that vulgar when you look at what Nietszche thought about Jews:
This is such a bizarre, absurd argument. What do those sentences, taken out of context and misrepresented, demonstrate about Nietzsche's view of Jews?
The New Testament isn't exactly considered the Jewish part of the Bible. Just on the face of it, the quotes seem to be more anti-christian than anti-jewish.
Also idk about the implication that stanning Pilate is antisemitic. He does have an absolute banger of a line.
This take on Nietzsche is particularly ironic considering that actual German nationalism was being born at the time, and Nietzsche opposed it. He broke with Wagner over all the batshit antisemitic stuff (again, Nietzsche was anti-christian, not antisemitic...).
Nietzsche famously loathed Christianity, and the slavish mentality he perceived to be at the core of the faith.