The Political Hat

     When some on the purported Right say they will “fight like the Left”, this is why they mean, as James Lindsay notes, quoted in full full below due to the limitations of Twitter/X embeds.

Neomarxist Herbert Marcuse, from “Repressive Tolerance,” 1965:

“Withdrawal of tolerance from regressive movements before they can become active; intolerance even toward thought, opinion, and word, and finally, intolerance in the opposite direction, that is, toward the self-styled conservatives, to the political Right—these anti-democratic notions respond to the actual development of the democratic society which has destroyed the basis for universal tolerance. The conditions under which tolerance can again become a liberating and humanizing force have still to be created. When tolerance mainly serves the protection and preservation of a repressive society, when it serves to neutralize opposition and to render men immune against other and better forms of life, then tolerance has been perverted. And when this perversion starts in the mind of the individual, in his consciousness, his needs, when heteronomous interests occupy him before he can experience his servitude, then the efforts to counteract his dehumanization must begin at the place of entrance, there where the false consciousness takes form (or rather: is systematically formed)—it must begin with stopping the words and images which feed this consciousness. To be sure, this is censorship, even precensorship, but openly directed against the more or less hidden censorship that permeates the free media. Where the false consciousness has become prevalent in national and popular behavior, it translates itself almost immediately into practice: the safe distance between ideology and reality, repressive thought and repressive action, between the word of destruction and the deed of destruction is dangerously shortened. Thus, the break through the false consciousness may provide the Archimedean point for a larger emancipation—at an infinitesimally small spot, to be sure, but it is on the enlargement of such small spots that the chance of change depends.”

To see what the Woke Right is doing against Daily Wire, just reverse the directions Right and Left there, realize they consider DW as producing liberal false consciousness in a conservative garb that they ultimately want to censor so the average conservative won’t be fed those words and images, and that Matt represents a point at which they believe they can break through the false consciousness peddled by DW.

Matt Walsh is the Archimedean point upon which they believe they can leverage Daily Wire off the table.

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