Dennis Claxton wrote:
> I'm curious why Heidegger's nazism only comes up in
> connection with rejecting "pomos".
Heidegger-baiting is a sport for some "leftists". In Germany and Austria, the vicious anti-Muslim racists around Bahamas and Cafe Critique accuse anyone ever influenced by Althusser and Foucault of initiating a "Heideggerization of the left".
Aside from the fact that as far as I can tell, neither Althusser nor Foucault really have anything to do with Heidegger, it is actually these "Anti-Germans" themselves who are sycophants of the worse sort when it comes to Heidegger disciples:
Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Amery.
All solid Heidegger students.
I have not read Heidegger, and see no need to until someone can convince me that it will be of some political use, but Heidegger-baiting is just another curious form of sandbox politics, like carping about Judith Butler's "difficult" prose.