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James Lindsay, anti-Communist 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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James Lindsay, anti-Communist Profile picture
Sep 18
I mostly disagree because I'm every bit or more worried about corrupted religious doctrine as I am about the nonreligious void.

Communism is a cult religion that will capture souls any way it can. The souls it can't capture, it will attempt to corrupt otherwise.
Corrupted Christian doctrine together with a deracinated, subverted liberalism, both calling themselves "progressive" at times, worked together to this end. A reactionary church will be summoned as its negation so that the resistance will not find genuine faith in God or country.
Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum have been quite clear for over a decade, as have other organizations working in this manner for roughly a century, that they seek a values shift that's to be accomplished through faith. The future they plan isn't secular at all.
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Sep 17
Be cautious with people denigrating "the Enlightenment" to advance some political project (which is invariably Woke, Left or Right). It refers to several things, not all of which agree.

America is based on Scottish Common Sense Realism, not French or German Idealism. 🇺🇸
The post-liberty Right ("Woke Right") tend to talk trash on the Englightenment in a sloppy way so they can attack American Classical Liberalism instead of conserving it. This error is only forgiveable at first. By now, the big players MUST know better because it's been clarified.
It's certainly the case that Communism arises out of the Neoplatonist/Idealist German and French Enlightenment, but American Classical Liberalism, which opposes these and always has, comes from somewhere else, despite some overlaps at the beginning, namely Common Sense Realism.
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Sep 15
You may have noticed that people who are wrong, especially when doing wrong, not just factually wrong, often attack people telling the truth. That's Error hating Truth.

Why does Error hate Truth? A borrowed lesson from my friend the Honorable Bob McEwan. 🧵
Imagine we're in an auditorium, and I say the auditorium is 50 feet wide, and you say it's 60 feet, and someone else says it's 80 feet. Obviously, we cannot all be correct (although we could all be wrong).
Now suppose we don't have any way to measure the room but decide it's important to figure out. I sit there and give my best arguments for 50 feet, and you argue for 60, and the other guy argues for 80, and we appeal to this and that and talk and talk and talk.
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Sep 14
"I'm going to take James [Lindsay] so badly! Watch this! I'll be like, 'BREAKING NEWS: James Lindsay admits that Hitler was fighting Marxists!"

This disgusting behavior is to elicit my attention and make Nick Fuentes and his Groypers dance for her, which they did.
If you wonder why I don't interact with her, it's because she's dangerously obsessed with me and does this dishonest cluster-B thing all the time. Most of her posts are about me. Most of her streams are about me. It's all unhinged cluster-B provocation. See it?
I spare absolutely zero sympathy for the Groypers, but I think it's kind of funny how she's ingratiating herself with them and doing a borderline elevation of Nick Fuentes to do it, getting them to take her orders and do her bidding. That much is actually kind of hilarious.
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Sep 14
This passage from Hitler about the Jews is really telling. Image
Very nasty Hitler views about Jews in Germany. Image
He even says it plainly: "The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism." Image
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist Profile picture
Sep 8
I feel like this makes me need to talk about Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, although I don't claim to know what motivates Tucker Carlson on his strange turn lately (no accusation, judging by fruits).

"Let 100 flowers bloom. Let 100 schools contend." 🧵
In 1956, Mao Zedong, believing he had brainwashed the population of China into deep socialist belief, and to make a liberalizing show in the wake of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, launched the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which encouraged free speech and criticism of the CCP.
It was one of Mao's greatest political miscalculations, as it turns out. Following a disastrous collectivization program called the Socialist High Tide. Over the course of several months, criticism grew and increased to where a real threat to CCP control arose.
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