The Frankfurt School's growing radicalism was a direct response to their members being persecuted and exiled from Germany for being Jewish leftist intellectuals

Conceptual James has a knack for exactly reversing cause and effect and therefore perpetrator and victim

The idea that Marcuse came up with "Repressive Tolerance" and his "intolerance of intolerance" was so offensive it turned ordinary Germans into Nazis is completely backwards

It's literally Nazi ideology, it's the lies Nazis tell themselves

"Repressive Tolerance" was written in 1965 and it is ABOUT MARCUSE HAVING FLED NAZI GERMANY

After seeing how ingrained and automatic antisemitism was in "normal, decent" German society and how once the ball started rolling it was impossible to stop through rational debate

Imagine lecturing German Jews about "hating Western Civilization" as though Western Civilization didn't decide to hate them first

Imagine agreeing with Hitler that the ball was in the Jews' court first and they were the ones who struck the first punch

Imagine looking at German society in the 1930s and saying the Frankfurt School "hating Western Civilization", if you insist on calling it that, was UNJUSTIFIED

Imagine seeing the Holocaust as a cautionary tale about getting too radical instead of completely proving their point