Repressive tolerance
What you hear
Tolerance: putting up with people you disagree with, and the same rules for everybody. The one virtue nearly every side still claims to share.
The common meaning. This is the cover the redefinition travels under.
What they mean by it
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left
Source: Repressive Tolerance (in A Critique of Pure Tolerance), Beacon Press, {"offset":43929}
Documented
In plain English
Tolerance redefined to run one way. The argument: treating every side the same protects whoever already holds the ground, so real tolerance means pulling it from one side. Marcuse extends the rule to what people do, not only to what they say.
The archive’s reading. The definition above is the citable one.
Assessed
Why it works
The word keeps its good name while the rule inside it runs backwards. You still believe in tolerance, so you do not object when someone invokes it. But the version they invoke licenses shutting one side down. Marcuse states the pattern without embarrassment, and the whole codebook records it: keep the virtue, swap the content, and your agreement travels with the word rather than the meaning.
Assessed
The claims ledger
The citable statements behind this term, each tied to the movement source filed in the Vault.
In “Repressive Tolerance” Marcuse argues that liberating tolerance means intolerance toward movements of the Right and toleration of movements of the Left, extending to action as well as speech.
- Repressive Tolerance (in A Critique of Pure Tolerance)Beacon Press, Boston
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Plain English for “Repressive tolerance”: Tolerance redefined so that it only runs one way. On this argument even-handedness protect...
- Repressive Tolerance (in A Critique of Pure Tolerance)Beacon Press, Boston
{"offset":43929}