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It’s hard to believe this article is from 2012 – we’ve seen the warning signs and have read the warnings for far too long… This insanity needs to end – but this is alarming from the article:

Marcuse came from a generation of intellectuals who had experienced the devastation of World War I. This pointless war, together with the Spanish influenza, which followed on its heels and wiped out as many as the war had destroyed, produced a generation of exhausted and cynical intellectuals ready to embrace the false optimism of either fascism or Marxism.
We cannot let this repeat with the current generation experiencing what they see as ‘pointless wars’ and the current pandemic. We don’t need another ‘ generation of exhausted and cynical intellectuals ready to embrace the false optimism of either fascism or Marxism.
1 posted on 09/09/2020 8:12:08 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Georgias was discredited by a farmer who objected to Georgias helping himself to fruit from one of the farmer’s trees. Georgias continue to eat and finally understood the essence of reality and truth when the farmer picked up a rock and was about to bash the overworked, confused brain of the gorging Georgias.


2 posted on 09/09/2020 8:18:46 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Heartlander

May 10, 2009 | Hate Crime Legislation - Back Door to Censorship | By James Simpson.
 

An extension of the Hate Crimes law recently passed the House of Representatives which will essentially codify into national law the "speech codes" that are smothering academic freedom on college campuses today. This law is the back door method Obama and his fellow socialists will use to stifle free speech in this country, as explained in an informative article by Jerry Kane at American Daughter.

To heck with the "Fairness Doctrine." Who needs to limit censorship to the airwaves? This legislation will silence anyone who disagrees with them.

Hate crimes legislation has its roots in the communist-inspired, so-called Frankfurt School founded in Frankfurt, Germany by Bolsheviks in the 1920s. Its goal was to implement communism in the West quietly by gradually subverting popular culture -- a movement known as Cultural Marxism. One of its leading lights, Herbert Marcuse, opined that the prevailing Western social order is repressive by definition and discriminates against minorities simply by existing.

This creates a phenomenon he called "repressive tolerance" because even though other views are allowed within Western culture -- you know, by that insignificant little old thing called the First Amendment -- the Capitalist view is still permitted. It goes without saying that Marcuse considered that to be unacceptable.

Instead, he proposed what he called "partisan tolerance," i.e. tolerating the views of those "repressed minorities" only -- who Marcuse assumes share his partisan hatred for everything noncommunist -- while actively muzzling the views of the majority.

So now we have a word for Democrats' eye-popping hypocrisy when they wrap themselves in the mantle of free speech while simultaneously attempting to suppress non-Leftist ideas. We have a word for the Left's double standard in championing "repressed minorities" only when those minorities share their politics, while savaging principled, accomplished minorities like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell or Janice Rogers Brown. We have an explanation for why so many college campuses, supposedly the society's heart of open-minded intellectual inquiry, actively, even violently intimidate conservative speakers -- when they let them onto campus at all.

They have been practicing "partisan tolerance." That is, tolerance of the extreme Left and virulent intolerance of anything else.

Marcuse, among other Frankfurt School advocates, was brought to the U.S. in the 1930s by
Edward R. Murrow who at the time headed a program to resettle intellectuals facing Nazi repression. According to Wikipedia, Marcuse worked at the OSS, the State Department and taught at Columbia, Harvard and Brandeis. Now doesn't that tell you something? He has been called the "Father of the New Left" and inspired many of the 1960s' young radicals, who now have tenured teaching positions at colleges throughout the U.S. It is easy to see his Frankfurt School influence in university speech codes - indeed it is largely the reason they exist.

In fact the New School, currently run by former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, counts the Frankfurt School as one of its main influences. Barack Obama has an indirect connection to the school, in that his father was offered a scholarship there. According to Wikipedia:

In the early 1960s, the New School offered the father of the US President, Barack Obama, a generous scholarship package that would have paid for his immediate family (including wife Ann Dunham and son, the future President; then residents of Hawaii) to join him in New York City, where he would complete his PhD. He declined and instead abandoned his family and departed for Harvard University, where he had a less-generous scholarship with no family allowance.

The Frankfurt School was dedicated to the destruction of the West. One of its founders, Willi Munzenberg, stated explicitly that its goal was to:

...organise the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilisation stink [sic]. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.

According to an article by Timothy Matthews in Catholic Insight, key strategies to achieve this goal were:

1.  The creation of racism offences.
2.  Continual change to create confusion.
3.  The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4.  The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority.
5.  Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6.  The promotion of excessive drinking.
7.  Emptying of churches.
8.  An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9.  Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10. Control and dumbing down of media.
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family.

Munzenberg stated flatly, "We will make the West so corrupt it stinks."

Today, his mission appears to have been largely accomplished. Assisted by American public education advocates, Frankfurt School proponents aggressively worked their way into our public education system to the point that today their priorities virtually define it. Their influence explains most of today's sick popular culture.

So this is the last piece in the
Manufactured Crisis puzzle. It seems apparent that "Hate Crimes" legislation is the vehicle by which free speech will be permanently silenced in America. And after that, the thugs will be firmly in charge.

You need look no further for proof that Marcuse's "cultural Marxists" are in charge in Washington now. Since it is their intention to destroy this country, intellectual appeals to them will fall on deaf ears. The only recourse is to lobby Senate Republicans and those few remaining Democrats with a shred of integrity, if indeed there are any.

We are witnessing the death of our country.

3 posted on 09/09/2020 8:19:24 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Heartlander

Exceptional post. Thank you.


4 posted on 09/09/2020 8:24:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Heartlander
There are strong parallels between what is going on with the current protests/riots and protests that have occurred on college campuses in the past.

A typical college protest involved students marching and then engaging in illegal activities such as graffiti, vandalizing, and even kidnapping in the form of confining college deans to their offices.

The protest would not stop until all of the demands of the protesters were met, one of which was always that none of them would be held accountable for any of their illegal actions.

Sound familiar?

I think we owe a lot to those few deans who didn't cave to the childish criminals. Responsibility for much of the current violence can properly be laid at the feet of those cowardly deans who caved, and the local law enforcement that failed to treat them as the criminals they were.

5 posted on 09/09/2020 8:36:54 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Heartlander
The Spanish Flu actually occurred during the final months of WW1 in 1918.
7 posted on 09/09/2020 11:13:34 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Heartlander
Thanks for posting this information.

Our institutions of culture have my interest. A short list of the advances related to the Frankfurt school and the progression of their results follows.

The insanity has to end but first we have to find and recognize where insanity's starting point is.

https://www.ntl.org/organizational-development/

Lewin was credited with OD until a 1945 Tavistock connection was uncovered.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076791.2013.790368

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/09/social-science-in-action-reports-from-tavistock-institute-archive/

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2011.0262?rss=1&cited-by=yes&legid=royptb%3B367%2F1589%2F754&

https://www.med.unc.edu/neuroscience/curriculum/ is just one school pressing forward.

https://vaziri.rockefeller.edu/

This link may be difficult to accept if the reader hasn't made an effort to at least browse through the previous information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-iXZWxZQKg&feature=youtu.be

8 posted on 09/09/2020 11:35:33 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Keep in mind, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against you.)
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