>Post-Modernism

>The fundamental insight of the Frankfurt School and its recent postmodernist offshoots, as well the Boasian School of anthropology and much of the criticism of biological and evolutionary perspectives in the social sciences reviewed in Chapter 2, is that a thoroughgoing skepticism and its consequent fragmentation of intellectual discourse within the society as a whole is an excellent prescription for the continuity of collectivist minority group strategies. Within the intellectual world, the greatest potential danger for a collectivist minority group strategy is that science itself as an individualist enterprise conducted in an atomistic universe of discourse could in fact coalesce around a set of universalist propositions about human behavior, propositions that would call into question the moral basis of collectivist minority group strategies such as Judaism. One way to prevent this is for science itself to be problematized and replaced by a pervasive skepticism about the structure of all reality.
The intended effect of such movements (and to a considerable extent their actual effect) has been to impose a medieval anti-scientific orthodoxy on much of the contemporary intellectual world.

What did he mean by this?

Jews

Great sourcing, OP.

It's quite clear what he meant but why would people like Heidegger and Gadamer go along with something like that? It all started way before with Neitzsche and Schopenhauer who are not of Jewish extraction either.

Heidegger was a phenomenologist and existentialist who practiced hermeneutics, Nietszche was a Romantic+Existentialist, Schopenhauer was a Romantic+Idealist. None of these guys wanted to fragment and break up discourse. Nietzsche wanted to create new values, Heidegger was an archaeist (similar in attitude to Confucius) who sympathized with National Socialism, Schopenhauer was a liberal.

Lemme correct myself: Schopenhauer was a conservative and monarchist. Confused him with someone else

"He" in this case is Kevin MacDonald, who has a reputation for being anti-Semitic. I don't know what his specific intentions were in writing this passage, but I suspect the vague and "scary" language is intended to make the Frankfurt School look bad. But considering that the passage doesn't appear to reference any credible sources inside or outside the Frankfurt School, I suspect it's mostly just propaganda and hot opinions.

>who sympathized with National Socialism
was a literal member of the nazi party for 13 years, and participated in the 1st steps of the holocaust, you mean

>was a literal member of the nazi party for 13 years, and participated in the 1st steps of the holocaust, you mean
Based.

>participated in the first steps of the Holocaust
can you elucidate this point? as someone who's dabbled into his phenomenology but found it a bit too opaque to apply to any of my work, I've had some engagement with the big arguments about his anti-Semitism and Nazism, but the narrative i've always received has been that he was more a complicit Nazi Party member who enjoyed academic promotion and job security under the Third Reich rather than an active intellectual contributor, but people also pretend that the only intellectual to blame for the Nazis is Nietzsche or Kossina, so i'm ready for this to be proven wrong

I heard he was so enthusiastic about Nazi ideology that the Nazis themselves were afraid of him.

Yes thats exactly what I meant. I love how poststructuralists go through such mental gymnastics to reconcile Heidegger with their leftist/nihilistic worldviews.

>has a reputation for being anti-Semitic

you got to admit, this would be the counterargument no matter how sound claims

*how sound his claims

not on Veeky Forums, but yes

the dude was a hardcore antiliberal. that antiliberalism comes from his philosophy. he became a nazi because of that antiliberalism.
after the war he converted to the newleft for the same reason.

when he was lector of the university he kicked out all the jewish professors. denying employment and property to people was the first step of the holocaust.

and yes you are wise to be careful about what you read about him, postmodernists sucked his dick for 30 years before they found out he was a nazi, and then they started lying about it for political damage control

>Nietzsche
>Romantic
wrong

If science becomes a (one of several) basis for universalist morals, the non-universalist moral of jews could come into question, be undermined, repressed, or destroyed. One example would be jewish political groups, in the current state of affairs, they are allowed to thrive despite jews being the second richest, the group with the most billionaires, owning the most of media institutions and haveing the most political power. This goes against the universalist standard set by priviliege theory, they like whites should not be allowed to have such political groups.

Post-modernist tactics are used by jewish and leftists to remove the focus and obscure these facts, this allows jewish ethnocentrism to trive. This is one of the way jews have for example at the Ivy Leagues managed to become the most voerrepresented group with respect to merrit (more than blacks and latinos). Other groups that perform well become underrepresented with respect to merrit (asians).

We can also go into other areas where jews are allowed to break and have the law interpret favourably in a way that is exclusive to them. From copyright trolling, illegal rent hiking in New York, to maintaining traditions of animal cruelty (chicken sacrefise)

Fucking Heiddiger
>lmao Dasein dude

>It all started way before with Neitzsche and Schopenhauer

This meme needs to stop.

Nietzsche would've called the SJW types, the postmodern philosophers and everyone who echoed similar sentiments for herd-like slave moralists who were full of ressentiment.

Nietzsche was a perspectivalist, true, but that doesn't imply that he was a Derridean deconstructionist.

This. These people don't understand that the reason Nietzche hates nationalism(a emancipatory force in his time) is because he prefers imperialism with a tyrant at the top.

>Nietzsche would've called the SJW types, the postmodern philosophers and everyone who echoed similar sentiments for herd-like slave moralists who were full of ressentiment

He also linked Christianity with "progressive" movements.

He actively volunteered and led the purging of people from his campus and bringing it along ideological lines.