The idea that Marcuse came up with "Repressive Tolerance" and his "intolerance of intolerance" was so offensive it turned ordinary Germans into Nazis is completely backwards It's literally Nazi ideology, it's the lies Nazis tell themselves
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"Repressive Tolerance" was written in 1965 and it is ABOUT MARCUSE HAVING FLED NAZI GERMANY After seeing how ingrained and automatic antisemitism was in "normal, decent" German society and how once the ball started rolling it was impossible to stop through rational debate
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Imagine lecturing German Jews about "hating Western Civilization" as though Western Civilization didn't decide to hate them first Imagine agreeing with Hitler that the ball was in the Jews' court first and they were the ones who struck the first punch
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Imagine looking at German society in the 1930s and saying the Frankfurt School "hating Western Civilization", if you insist on calling it that, was UNJUSTIFIED Imagine seeing the Holocaust as a cautionary tale about getting too radical instead of completely proving their point
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"This isn't time for superficial thought-stopping garbage like "Jews do not cause anti-Semites." " No, i think it's exactly time for historically informed rational thought, C James. Saying "it's not time to think" is a hilariously foolish rhetorical strategy.
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"This person wasn't a Nazi until a Jewish person said something they didn't like and they decided to become one" is an absolutely ludicrous cause and effect that takes all the agency away from the literal Nazi
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Reversal of cause and effect is the basis of the entire "IDW" phenomena. Jordan Peterson claims in virtually every speech that it is "leftist identity politics" that caused right-wing white nationalism.
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Sam Harris does the similar reversal of cause and effect with the Israel-Palestinian situation.
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They were quite radical before exile.
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