I'm having proper tea tomorrow to celebrate this.
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Don’t microwave it for too long, you’ll burn your tongue.
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Why would you say such a thing? Why? What did I ever do to you to deserve such cruelty?
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As a Brit, I am almost as sad about the idea that you microwave tea as I am about the degradation of academia as it collapses into dangerously escalating virtue signallingpic.twitter.com/IFmeE0DkK0
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I DO NOT MICROWAVE TEA!!!
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A bit starstruck right now. Both
@HPluckrose and@ConceptualJames replying. All I need is@peterboghossian to weigh in & I’ve got a full house. When you’re in London hit me up & you can all come round for tea (earl grey) & we can talk about epistemology & social science. -
I am in London. Hence knowing better about tea!
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Yer I forgot. You were at the battle of ideas. Sadly couldn’t be there as I was studying all weekend.
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It is Marcuse’s ‘discriminating tolerance’ that explains the contemporary far-left’s deplatforming activism. Habermas’ discourse ethics stands in stark contrast and might offer a productive, rational way out of our present impasse.
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Show me. Show them citing Marcuse.
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I’ll try:) “The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself.” (Marcuse 1991, 172) But surely Marcuse was not suggestion that Reason as such is a tool of domination, but ‘totalitarian’ selective application of lies looking like reason...
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Can you show me Social Justice scholars or activists citing Marcuse? I've just been intensively studying them for a year. They tend to cite the gender, race & sexuality grievance scholars who tend to cite the postmodernists.
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I suspect bc Marcuse was associated with communism, they haven't been too eager to associate themselves with him for marketing reasons, but what they are doing is exactly what he prescribed. Maybe the link is Angela Davis, who was one of his students: http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/scholaractivists.htm …
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The idea is basically that if anything even carries a whiff of fascism, you shut it down before it can influence politics. Discriminating tolerance (also called "liberating tolerance") is illiberal double standards--even allowing oppressed/marginalized groups to break the law:pic.twitter.com/80O2I9lDNs
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Yes, I know. What I now need is some reason to think campus activists are really influenced by this rather than the things they say they're influenced by which also explain their behaviour.
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could someone clue me in on what are the differences between the grievance studies and the frankfurt critical theory?
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Not on Twitter really, no. Best I can do is say that the postmodernists were critical of Marxism and the Frankfurt school and they were critical back. Objectivism main conflict. Grievance studies is based on an evolved & politicised form of postmodernism.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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Ok look you guys are shooting above my head with this, but I’m curious if I’m kinda following a little bit: there are two different versions of critical theory here, but the newer, identitarian version is beyond the pale as opposed to Marxist Frankfurt school of thought?
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Finally someone cleared this up. Thank you. It was reminding me of my teen years when everyone would yell at everyone else that they were misunderstanding the "genre" of some particular band and smugly correct them.
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