Spinning Intolerance

"We must pray that when your head's finished turning, your face is to the front again."
--Sir Thomas More (A Man for All Seasons)

A core principle of cultural Marxism is 'liberating tolerance.' The term was coined by Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse. As with most Marxist ideas, the concept turns reality upside down.

Classically defined, tolerance means being able to live with things you don't like. Marcuse posited that a classically 'tolerant' society would therefore validate or institutionalize things that are harmful and inhibit progress. 

To counter this 'repressive tolerance,' Marcuse espoused liberating tolerance. Liberating tolerance means tolerating ideas coming from sources deemed as 'correct,' while not tolerating ideas coming from sources deemed 'incorrect.' 

Guess who gets to deem correctness?

To cultural Marxists, then, censorship is quite welcome when applied to groups with 'incorrect' ideas. And can there be any doubt that we are witnessing precisely this? Hello Facebook, Twitter, et al...

Quite clearly, liberating tolerance is the definition of intolerance. Stated differently, liberating tolerance to counter repressive tolerance is... repressive intolerance.

Let's join Sir Thomas in a prayer for the spinning minds of the left.