8Ball

The concern of classical critical theory is never external behavior, the demesne of sociology, but why society reproduces inequality between races and classes; the etiology of why poor black men disproportionally end up in jail for violent crimes, and the fundamental epistemological stance that allows enclaves of white racists to perceive the Mexican “alien” as less than human.

These are all emotional appeals filled with blue pills that can be debunked if one rejects the cultural Marxist critical theory propagated by the Frankfurt school to subvert western society.

sweetholymosiah

You don't have to be Marxist to be against racism, or to be concerned about inequality. These old German writers were critical of orthodox marxism.

sweetholymosiah

"Contrary to popular perception, critical theory actually struggles to survive everywhere in the current climate of austerity and vocational training. Its fundamentally critical attitude to late capitalism, not as a set of values but as a mode of exchange, makes it antagonistic to the way neoliberalism has infiltrated and manages the university."

"The New Right’s lazy grasp of critical theory is mirrored in its cynical posturing against common decency and equally disingenuous promotion of half-truths. That the voice of the New Right in the US, Breibart News—proudly owned by Steve Bannon, a one-time close ally of and official on the Trump cabinet—carried a story that promoted the anti-Semitic conspiracy about the Frankfurt School is a very worrying sign indeed. Who would have believed even a decade ago that this inauspicious conjunction of a spurious doctrine contained in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with the difficult and subtle philosophy of the Frankfurt School would ever see the light of day?"