The Democrat plan to censor America – UnHerd

A snobbish mistrust of the masses lies at the heart of the opposition to the First Amendment, a feature that we can trace to the Frankfurt School and the French postmodernists of the Sixties, two groups that have substantially influenced the philosophy behind Critical Social Justice. According to this view, popular culture has created a society of unthinking clones. What Herbert Marcuse described as the one-dimensional man is irredeemably blind to his own subjugation and reacts mechanically according to decrees from above. According to this perspective, hate speech has the power to rile up one group against another, even though the evidence for this claim is scant.

Those of us familiar with the concept of the long march through the institutions will be aware that these theories take time to percolate and to infect the mainstream. John Kerry s recent remarks would suggest that First Amendment scepticism has finally made the leap from academic activism into the political sphere. Whether it gains traction in its new home should trouble us all.

via unherd.com

Andrew Doyle.

A reprise.

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