By A Colleague
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 8:53 a.m.
Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors
The last 15 minutes or so of the James Lindsay interview with the Epoch Times' Jan Kekielek has a very good discussion of Herbert Marcuse's concept of "repressive tolerance" --- which seems to me very useful in understanding not only current realities but, in academia at least, the last 50 years or so.
Here's Lindsay applying the concept to an observation by a conservative school teacher (they do exist):
JAMES LINDSAY, NEW YEAR, NEW ME @ConceptualJames "This is the influence of Herbert Marcuse's Repressive Tolerance. He argued that fascism is always hiding around the corner, and only left wing thought and speech should be tolerated. Right-wing should be repressed. The entire 'inclusion' program at your job is based on this." Jan 3, 2021
Quote Tweet CONSERVATIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER @RightyTeacher Replying to @ConceptualJames "They don't understand fascism. They think free speech is fascism because it can be 'hateful', and in the process of trying to stop it, they become the actual fascists."
[N.S.: Actually, they consider anything opposed to their own communism, "fascism," aka Nazism. They live in a zero-sum world, and always have. Thus, they don't "become" fascists through trying to stop fascists. All this confusion is due to the pernicious influence of Jonah Goldberg.]
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A New Leninism Is Gripping America—James Lindsay on Repressive Tolerance & Free Speech
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