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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I literally wrote "I have a hard time understanding why we should fund philosophy studies with government money.".

If you do a bias interpretation on that in your search for an enemy is on you.

I don't write here trying to achieve any goal. I'm not a partisan not a propagandists.

My only goal, as suggested from the original comment was to know other people's opinion a debate a little on that.

And I'm not even American, so I don't really have much stakes on that the US government does or stop doing with their fundings.

As I have already said, it's not that I don't like humanities being funded. I don't like them being treated as sciences, when they are not. I would support a humanities funding that would consists in a more democratic and spread funding that would allow to any member of the society to work on their humanities if they want. For instance funding for anyone self publishing a book on any matter (philosophy or fiction), building national archives and forums for this humanities to coexist.

But funding a philosophy department with a few elite philosophers who are getting a lot of money to do some philoshophing is just wrong from my pov. I could be convinced otherwise if a good argument is presented, but as far as it goes it has not been presented such argument.