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I found this article, The Creep of Critical Theory, most enlightening.
It certainly helps — at least it helped me — understand what is going on with the young horrors, the Social Justice Warriors at American universities. Their de-platforming, their shouting down different views, their "punch a Nazi" rhetoric.
The author sums it up as the battle between Mill and Marcuse. With the latter winning.
The battle between critical thinking and Critical Theory; with the latter winning.
The battle between bottom-up debate and top-down diktat; with the latter winning.
The battle between Free speech and “fighting oppression"; with the latter winning.
The battle between Free speech and “fighting oppression"; with the latter winning.
Marcuse's influential essay was called Repressive Tolerance. Sounds creepy to me. But it's what Marcuse was after and it's what he's getting. Repression by the Left of any but their opinions, all with the goal, apparently, of fighting oppression.
Now read on....
