Wednesday, November 29, 2017

College Campuses And The Origins Of The New Totalitarianism | Daily Wire

College Campuses And The Origins Of The New Totalitarianism | Daily Wire:
"...For the precious few who will attempt to wade through Arendt’s subtle and difficult concepts, not to mention sentences that seem to go on forever, it will become obvious that ground zero of totalitarianism’s resurgence...the college campus.
Image result for no different from those who mobilized Hitler’s BrownshirtsWhereas the essence of democracy, as Tocqueville so brilliantly notes, is compromise and conciliation, the essence of totalitarianism is that truth is whatever the movement says it is. 
Different ideas are to be quashed.
The individual who believes that politics is a series of negotiations or deal making is hardly a totalitarian.
By contrast, the diversity administrator who organizes a bunch of pubescent thugs who have been inculcated in the belief that truth is that which advances the interests of their identity and those who share it, is a totalitarian.
He or she is no different from those who mobilized Hitler’s Brownshirts to shut down intellectuals whose ideas were not sanctioned by the Nazi movement..."
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