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«Everyone agrees that (((Marcuse)))’s secret cabal and those (their “downstream effluent”) they have compromised who control academia, tech, finance, and government are godless totalitarian nihilists» (slightly paraphrased) is not really the kind of response most people were hoping for....


While I am glad to have provoked discussion, especially in the context of the original "Parable of Lightning / Kolmolgorov Complicity" essays which I highly recommend reading, and that this thread was one of its traps appears to be confirmed, but I defer to the moderators in regard to whether we're adding value with this kind of personal slander.


Kolmogorov was, however, not complicit with the very scary idea that one shouldn't spout anti-semitic nonsense, he was complicit in an actual totalitarian system. The systems in which Kolmogorov complicity happens are those in which you can't freely give your opinion. However, anti-semitism isn't an opinion, but an insanity, and besides, you are not Kolmogorov. Stop overselling your harmful nonsense.

Plus you are, as you notice, absolutely allowed to spout anti-semitic rhetoric, and will not be literally burned at the stake or shot for it. This does not free you from professional consequences, even in the academic sphere, because it is hard to take seriously the ideas of someone who seriously believes that the Jews invented Marxism as a weapon to do what-exactly?




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