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Just read the Gay Science, section 377. He explicitly names conservatism and people wanting to "go back" so to speak and rejects that. He specifically names German nationalism and racism and rejects it too. Then he proclaims himself and others like him to have too much mixed racial backgrounds to want to identify with nationalism, and calls them "good Europeans" trying to transcend these national identities and races. Yes he also opposes egalitarianism and liberalism (he says so in the same section). But why do so many people think he's trying to go back to the past, or support Nazi shit, if he very clearly and explicitly rejected it? In his letters to his sister he even says he's an anti-anti-Semite.