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• @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-02 17:38

  I think Sartre said that in the 40s, possibly after WW2 had ended, and of course, almost certainly said the original phrase in French, but basically yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew Ah, wrote it in '44, after the liberation of Paris, but not widely published till '46. Maybe this is a ... more digestible but also more thorough breakdown of many key concepts: https://snugfam.com/12-timeless-sartre-quotes-on-antisemitism-profound-insights-from-jean-paul-sartres-anti-semite-and-jew/#quote2 But uh yeah, he's very clearly talking about **_the literal Nazis_**. You wanna understand Nazi brain? The psychology of fascists, bigots? Set aside some time to read Sartre. Fascists wield language as a weapon, not as a means of communication. Read some Hitler or Goebbels if you wanna see how that works, in their own words. Reminder that Trump quite literally kept a collection of Hitler's writings/speeches **_in his bedside table_**, for years, according to his ex-wife. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8 .. Yes, this was in a Vanity Fair interview in 1990, resurfaced and got a lot of press ... before Trump got elected, the first time. Not too long after this, people started calling him a fascist or way too familiar with facsists... and then basically everyone acted like that was a hyperbolic overreaction, that discredited you as a _serious_ political commentator. ... **_Oops._**

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