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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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