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Great Article about Marcuse and Rise of the Intolerant Left


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2019 Oct 30, 9:52pm   261 views  7 comments

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As this suggests, Marcuse was a genius at "granting positive connotations to negative practices." This trick reached the height of doublespeak when Marcuse preached that tolerance is actually intolerance, and visa verse.

Guided by Marcuse's sophistry, the notion of tolerance came to mean the complete opposite of what it had formerly signified. No longer was tolerance the act of allowing or forbearing with another person's viewpoint or values despite one's disapproval of them. This was the notion espoused by liberals of the Enlightenment and embodied in the quotation (falsely attributed to Voltaire), "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Though this notion of tolerance, like any other type of liberty, has obvious legal limits, it was based on the Christian idea (not always perfectly followed) that we should refrain from deporting, imprisoning, executing, or humiliating those whose beliefs, practices, and behaviors we dislike or disapprove of.

Marcuse considered traditional tolerance to be "repressive tolerance," which needed to be replaced with "liberating tolerance." Significantly, liberating tolerance involved "intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left." Movements from the Left included the activism of various groups that Marcuse encouraged to self-identify as oppressed, including homosexuals, women, blacks, and immigrants. Only minority groups such as these could be considered legitimate objects of tolerance.

https://salvomag.com/article/salvo20/the-illusionist

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1   Shaman   2019 Oct 31, 6:04am  

Well that was enlightening. This philosophy of nihilism and anti-western civilization neatly explains the positions of modern Leftists. It is now obvious that their goals are the destruction of morality, capitalism, and civilization itself, and that they’re using culture to spread their poisonous tautology. I’m more convinced than ever that Leftism is a cancer on society and that right thinking people everywhere should utterly and completely reject any ideas that come from those people. Every single one is an arrow to the heart of all that is good and decent about our world and should be vehemently, perhaps even violently opposed by good people of the world.
2   georgeliberte   2019 Oct 31, 3:58pm  

"Marcuse served stints at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brandeis, and the University of California at San Diego." Why did these institutions hire him? For the enjoyment of being irrational to demonstrate intellectual powers like Gorgias ? What a load of shite.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Oct 31, 7:31pm  

This piece sums up so much about the Left:

* Their emphasis on sexual stimulation - Marcuse enshrines the Eros above the Logos (Wisdom of the Ages, Reason, the Word) replacing Traditional Liberalism with Pomo
* Their snooty attitude about the unenlightened masses - abandoning Labor as a Left interest, replacing it with Cultural Control by a small group of Intellectuals.
* Fake Tolerance, or Marcusian Tolerance, where accepting the existence of those who hold stupid ideas is not enough, if they are a minority, you must give it validity, and subject your values to it if they are in conflict.
4   steverbeaver   2019 Oct 31, 8:16pm  

Sounds like a great read. Thanks for the intellectual caviar.
5   Ceffer   2019 Nov 1, 12:27am  

"My clever successful subversion is better and smarter than your clever successful subversion!"
7   Hircus   2019 Nov 3, 3:50pm  

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