I wasted probably thousands of hours in total arguing fruitlessly with creationists. I'm not going to make the same mistake with people who insist postmodern identity/grievance studies critical theory is Marxist Frankfurt School critical theory. Believe what you want.
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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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I don't doubt they are influenced by Foucault (and other poststructuralists), as well. I believe Foucault & Marcuse each provide a pincer to the social justice radical activism that has been marching through the major institutions in America since the 60s. PoMo deconstructs...
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I suspect that indirectly SJW, intersectional feminism and grievance studies may also be influenced by selective reading of Raoul Vaneigem (Situationism). “A community which is not built on individual demands ... can only reinforce the oppressive violence of power.”
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It should be easy enough to find them doing that if they have.
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How does this relate to what is actually happening? They're just not citing the Frankfurt School.
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