Yesterday I stumbled upon a video from the 1990s by the Free Congress Foundation, a right-wing think tank created by all-around terrible person Paul Weyrich.

Someone want to tell me how exactly this is any different from the "anti-Wokeism" we are getting today?
"[Insert currently fashionable name of social justice boogeyman here] is nothing less than a Marxist ideology: Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms, in an effort going back not to the 1960s, but to World War I. [Begin discussion of The Frankfurt school.]"
William Lind, the man taking us on this iQuest for Truth in the video, happens to be one of those responsible for the resurrection of antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding cultural Marxism around the turn of the century: splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
The video quickly introduces tenets of antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Cultural Marxism." The "radical sex education" they attribute to Lukacs was basic reproductive anatomy--but sure, let's call it "cultural terrorism" when we teach science instead of religious dogma.
It's as if this man has time-traveled into the future and channeled all three Grievance Hoaxers simultaneously.

"Critical theory is the basis for gay studies, black studies, women's studies, and various other "studies" departments [...] the home base of political correctness."
David Horowitz is another pioneer of neoconservatism who has championed the anti-PC cause. Here he says the Frankfurt school "no longer believed in the future. They only believed in destroying capitalism." This has caused the "nihilism" that pervades university campuses, he says.
This man plays the character of @ConceptualJames better than James himself. Here he twists Horkheimer's claim "logic is not independent of content" into "an argument is logical if it helps destroy Western cultural, illogical if it supports it."
See the full video for yourself here, if you have the misfortune of being as masochistic as I am:

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Contrast Rufo’s opening statement—using “countergenocide against white Christians” to refer to a specific solution—with his actual article’s analysis. “Countergenocide” is an ADJECTIVE (like “counterterrorist”) as in “countergenocide tactics.” This is PURE BAD FAITH.
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