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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance"

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The Paradox of Pseudo-Realities

If you gain a critical consciousness, then you become aware of that pseudo reality. And then you will be believed to have pseudo real thinking because you are perceiving reality correctly with your critical consciousness. That's kind of exactly the argument that I made is that people inside and outside of pseudo realities won't be able to tell which one is which. It repression invades the academic enterprise itself, even prior to all restrictions on academic freedom. The preempting of the mind mediates impartiality and objectivity. Unless the student learns to think in the opposite direction, he will be inclined to place the facts into the predominant framework of values. This is just a railing call for the need for critical education

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