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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Replying to @indynoggin @Philosophy_Net
Show me. Show them citing Marcuse.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @indynoggin
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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Replying to @Philosophy_Net @indynoggin
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @Philosophy_Net
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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Replying to @indynoggin @Philosophy_Net
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @Philosophy_Net
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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& critical theory (via Marcuse via Davis via Crenshaw, et al) reconstructs a reverse hierarchy of oppression in any sphere in which adherents of social justice orthodoxy/intersectional black feminism hold power.
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Foucault allows dismissal of claims on the basis of power (i.e., the identity of claimant, historical injustice associated w similar claims, or potential injustice/reproduction of past structures of oppression enabled by claim) w/out even addressing its epistemic warrants.
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It's much better to write it longform with citations than tweet it at me.
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