Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" is now accepted policy throughout the country

Marcuse, a member of the Frankfurt School of Marxists, fled the Nazis and came to the United States in order to save his life. He repaid that debt our country by setting about destroying it.

You can find a summary of his screed on “Repressive Tolerance”, a term he coined, here. (Or, if you care to plow all 100+ pages, you can go here — I don’t recommend it)

Except from the summary:

Marcuse argued that, because of the radical repressiveness of Western society, a tolerance for all viewpoints actually contributed to social oppression. A pervasive network of assumptions and biases implicitly privileges the viewpoint of the powerful, so that seemingly “equal” presentations of opposite opinions actually end up benefiting the viewpoint of the powerful. He offered the example of a magazine running a piece criticizing the FBI along with one praising the FBI. Fair and balanced? Not so fast, Marcuse said: “the chances are that the positive [story] wins because the image of [the FBI] is deeply engraved in the mind of the people.” Because of social programming, the inhabitants of a given society automatically favor certain values. The ideological playing field’s lack of levelness means that seemingly equal presentations of ideas are not really equal.

[His “remedy”] includes the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc. Moreover, the restoration of freedom of thought may necessitate new and rigid restrictions on teachings and practices in the educational institutions which, by their very methods and concepts, serve to enclose the mind within the established universe of discourse and behavior — thereby precluding a priori a rational evaluation of the alternatives. And to the degree to which freedom of thought involves the struggle against inhumanity, restoration of such freedom would also imply intolerance toward scientific research in the interest of deadly “deterrents,” of abnormal human endurance under inhuman conditions, etc.

I read (some of) Marcuse’s writings back in 1974 or so, when I was in college, and dismissed him as a lightweight, but that was a misjudgment; in fact, his teachings had already infected institutions of higher learning, and in the coming decades, filtered down through the grades and eventually reached kindergarten (and, today, even pre-school). Hence fellow-traveller Howard Zinn’s hate America textbook being used in the standard high school curriculum, and, these days, the NYT 1619 Project. And the graduates of those institutions now run then, as well as our media. That’s bad news.

Marcuse and the Frankfurt School had a goal to destroy capitalism back in the 30s, and 90-years later, they’re almost there.