Re:Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
by dang on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:55PM
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Perhaps we're running into a usage mismatch about how we understand the same word. That often gets affected by cultural differences too.
Just please avoid flamebait and flamewars on HN and especially ideological battle. Those things are not what HN is for, and they destroy what it is for, so we have to be proactive about them.
Re:Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis
by CryptoPunk on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:29PM
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Just please avoid flamebait and flamewars on HN and especially ideological battle
Yes understood.
As for the positive/negative connotations of the term intellectual, I would respectfully disagree. No one describes recognized mass murderers as intellectuals, at least not that I'm aware of, and certainly would never limit their description of such a person to merely an intellectual. It would be intellectually irresponsible to not also mention their crimes. It's this lack of recognition that I took issue with. I hope me mentioning that in the future without mentioning ideology wouldn't be deemed as violating HackerNews guidelines.