A Look at the Frankfurt School, the Cultural Left, Etc. in Terms of Jewish Cultural Projects

Very nice article.

This article takes the Frankfurt School and the Cultural Left to backstop a pro-Palestinian argument. A bit intellectual but I could handle it.

The Jewish Frankfurt School of Social Research

The Jewish Frankfurt School is despised by hardcore antisemites (I dislike them and call their view “obsessive and conspiratorial antisemitism” as opposed to “watercooler antisemitism,” which to me is simply normal Gentile behavior).

They see it as being the forefather of the Cultural Left. I doubt if that’s true but I haven’t read their stuff. They were a group of German Jewish scholars writing after the Holocaust. Theirs was a Jewish tribal project to attempt to understand the Holocaust.

They did this by pathologizing White Gentile European culture as inherently oppressive or authoritarian. Their project was to try to dismantle this authoritarianism.

I’m dubious about this notion as I don’t think there is anything authoritarian about Europeans, and in fact this is probably the m…