[fjdjsmsm]

Except it isn’t about quoting. Many on the right claim that Orwell, Camus, etc were in-fact right wing and hated the left because they disagreed with extremist Stalinists and such.

It is much like religious people claiming Einstein was religious.

It seems to be a common tactic to rebrand people as believing in the opposite of what they did.

[amadeuspagel]

It is very much about quoting. Gingrich did not say that Camus was right wing. Nor have I ever heard that claim.

[cambalache]

Camus was a leftist who was against Stalinism, I am pretty sure he would have abhorred the Cultural Revolution in China and the woke brigade now.

[fjdjsmsm]

So, Maoism and ‘the woke brigade’ are the same thing? This is exactly my point. Thanks.

[cambalache]

If you dont like vanilla and you dont like chocolate are both those the same thing? This your standard of debate.

Camus, a free-thinker, womanizer, pied-noir,who reached across the aisle during the war writing to a German friend, it is the antithesis of the current woke, liberal,sex-repressed,pro-foreign-intervention, cancel-everybody-who-dares-to-think-different-to-me woke crowd so common in Twitter and here.