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GedankenTravelExperiment, sadly, in a post on how much brighter the English are than those foreign French people, gets things backwards:

In contrast take analytic Anglo-American philosophy. The hero for us is Frege. Frege started philosophy of language, modern logic, philosophy of mathematics, then philosophy of mind. Frege was also a proto-Nazi. He was a virulent anti-Semite, and anti-Catholic. That is all clear. We know this because he left over a diary where he wrote some real bizarre things (only recently translated to English by someone I know). Is what he said defensible? I am sure with the right twists of logic (which would be real ironic) you can construe him as not evil. But for analytic philosophers, that is hardly the point. Maybe he was a bad guy, maybe he wasn't. Who cares? A philosopher is supposed to really be above that.

That sounds very noble of those Anglo-Americans: it's the philosophy, not the man. Sadly though, most criticism of Heidegger's way of thinking from the analytical rank-and-file is: he's a Nazi, nothing to think, move along please.  ¶ 6:40 AM