• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    “The soul is a spook”

    I’m sorry I understand those words not in those orders though, are you saying the soul is an olde timey anti-black racial slur or that it’s inherently scary?

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      6 months ago

      A spook is a pretty niche concept from philosophy, I believe coined by Max Stirner

      It basically means a social construct that is being taken as if it is a real factual thing instead of something made up?

      I am bad at explaining stuff but I hope you get the gist of it.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      spook

      could also indicate ghost or intelligence operative. I don’t assume they were going racist with it.