HERBERT MARCUSE'S BODY COUNT.

Ideas have consequences.  Consider this passage from "Liberating Tolerance," explaining what the Frankfurt School types have in store for Normals.  "Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left."

Yes, we can have a Serious Conversation in the common room about the circumstances under which there is a moral justification of political violence.  That sort of conversation is out of order a year after Charlie Kirk was murdered at a campus appearance in Utah.

Herbert Marcuse's disciples are still at it.  "Marxist University Profs Spew Tone-Deaf Calls for Violence," notes Red State's Ben Sellers.  Perhaps his rogues gallery is edited, the video clips suggest that speaking pejoratively about faculty DEI hires is not off base.  The house organ for all wokeness, all the time, corroborates.  "After Kirk’s Death, a Third of Students Say Posting ‘MAGA’ Is a Fireable Offense."  That's reporting on a recent Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey of liberating tolerance in practice.  "Fifty percent of students reported that blocking other students from attending a speech event is OK at least in rare cases, down from 54 percent last year, and 69 percent said the same about shouting down a speaker, compared to 72 percent a year prior."

So much for being able to play with ideas on campus.

About three in 10 students said a professor should “definitely” or “probably” be fired for posting “it’s OK to punch a Nazi” on social media in the wake of Kirk’s death, while 71 percent said the professor should “definitely” or “probably” not be fired. The next statement—“these fascist Bible-thumpers want to drag us back to the Dark Ages”—left students more evenly split; 47 percent said the statement would warrant termination, while 52 percent said it would not.

A third of students said a professor should definitely or probably be fired for posting Trump’s famous slogan “we’re going to make America great again” after Kirk’s death, and 42 percent of students said a professor should be fired for posting, “Our colleges and universities are progressive indoctrination centers.”

Tougher to talk about than Kirk, however, is the Israel-Palestine conflict; it was the most taboo discussion topic for the third year in a row, according to the report. Fifty percent of students said it is “difficult to have an open and honest conversation about” the conflict. Abortion also remained controversial—43 percent of students said it is difficult to discuss—as did immigration and transgender rights, which 38 percent of students labeled as difficult.

There's professionalism, perhaps being too open about one's political or aesthetic preferences is not good professorial practice.  The way I learned it is that a professor ought teach the New Deal in such a way that no student can suss out whether Franklin D. Roosevelt was hero or That Man.  Then there's that detritus of liberating tolerance, with the jihad getting a pass because it is somehow a movement of the Left.  Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany on United States campuses inadvertently making it easier to tar Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany in Israel as oppressive setter colonialists.

There's more to that bad idea.  Tune in tomorrow, same blog time, same blog channel.