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James Lindsay, full varsity Profile picture
@ConceptualJames
Jan 10, 2021 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
We need to get something straight.

This is propaganda. It's also popular. It misrepresents Popper (reasonable) and sneakily forwards Marcuse (radical totalitarian), specifically his Repressive Tolerance. Image
Popper has a much more careful argument where he outlines the Paradox of Tolerance. In that more careful argument, he points out that one should not seek to suppress intolerant ideologies until they can't be reasoned with. (Uh oh, Wokies!) Image
The context of the graphic, though it's not made specific, can pretty easily be determined to be what Herbert Marcuse is talking about in "Repressive Tolerance" (1965) as "liberating tolerance."
Link: marcuse.org/herbert/public…
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Neither do "gays" or especially the execrable "LGBTQ+."

"Christians" don't really exist either, but at least here it's closer.

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