Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 19 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 3 of 4 In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn. Having set up the framing of the essay in the first part and explaining the condition of the "administered society" in the second, Marcuse now turns to answering the question of what a Repressive Tolerance should look like, including what it must suppress and what it must tolerate, including the sorts of violence and extralegal behaviors it must tolerate. The statement, which we arrive at near the end of this part, is simple, in Marcuse's own words: "Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left." In this part of the lecture series, Lindsay walks the listener through the darker part of Marcuse's argument to show how he arrives at this blatantly biased and ridiculous conclusion that has set the stage for the totalitarianism we see today in Wokeness and from Big Tech. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses pinterest.com/newdiscourses/ linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast, I'm James Lenzey,
0:25.6	and you have stumbled into part three of a series that I hope will be in four parts, but maybe
0:32.6	five parts is coming along. We'll see. Where I'm reading through Herbert Marcus is 1965
0:38.9	essay Repressive Tolerance, which I've advocated for people to read repeatedly, and I finally
0:44.6	got sick of people not reading it and saying they can't understand it when they try to
0:48.5	read it. So I decided to read it to you and explain it. So this is part three. There have
0:53.2	been two previous parts that have come out before this. So you want to go back to the
0:58.7	beginning, if you want to know what's going on, we're just going to pick up what we left off,
1:02.4	which were just shy of halfway through, including the post script at this point. So
1:09.5	parts one and parts two outline the first half of the essay in part one to kind of very, very
1:15.8	briefly summarize. I start by explaining that Frankfurt School Critical Theory, what critical
1:21.1	theory is who Herbert Marcuso was comparing the idea of Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance,
1:27.9	which I think that Marcuso was trying to resolve with his suggestion of this repressive tolerance,
1:34.6	which he calls the discriminating or a liberating tolerance in this essay. I also laid out that he
1:45.2	says essentially, I mean, the thesis of the essay is very clear. It's not ambiguous. We will hear
1:50.4	explicitly that that which is a movement from the left should be given tolerance all the way,
1:59.5	even when it's violent, that which is a movement from the right should be treated with intolerance,
2:04.4	even including by violence and censorship. And as we will see, pre-censorship. And so it's a very
2:11.6	clear essay calling for the asymmetry of how things operate in society. So part one, if you go
2:20.2	back and listen to that, you hear the introduction of the essay, the beginning, where he lays out that
2:24.7	this really is the thesis to the essay. It explains the functions of tolerance. And he basically outlines
2:32.4	that there are these people. He doesn't name them, but he's talking about critical theorists.
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