Twitter reacts to a white woman expressing pride in her facial features

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[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Schopenhauer sounding like a modern leftist bugman. That whole argument would make sense if the world was truly equal but we do not live in such a world. We can see the results in the modern Western world when a people no longer take pride in their nation, history, and ancestors.

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Schopenhauer sounding like a modern leftist bugman.

s/NeoRail says that it could have been misquoted or taken out of context, which wouldn’t surprise me coming from leftists

[–]NeoRail 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The "liberal" reading of that quote requires a faulty reading of history. Look at the full quote. It's quite clear that Schopenhauer is referring to the civic nationalism that was prevalent in his time, not to ethnic and blood ties. This type of critique may be applied to boomer-style conservatives who ardently believe in American exceptionalism, worship the increasingly ineffectual liberal Constitution and promote petty jingoism abroad for unclear reasons. The argument is absolutely inapplicable to this girl though. If I have my facts correctly, d'Escufon was a member of Generation Identity, which was literally banned in France. This type of ethnonationalism is completely antithetical to the system currently in place in the West and an obvious distinction must be drawn between this ethnonationalism on the one hand and the object of Schopenhauer's criticism, which is essentially just jingoistic bootlicking.