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My response to 'Feminism's Roots in Terrorism'

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Michael Vigne
Jul 25, 2023
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So I read this:

The Fiamengo File
Feminism’s Roots in Terrorism
In my last Substack post, I traced the justification of “liberatory violence” to Frankfurt School icon Herbert Marcuse, who claimed that the violence of the oppressed, allegedly dedicated to ending intolerable injustice, was of a different order than state-authorized violence (that of government agencies, the police, the legal system, etc.) that maintained an unjust status quo. Radical feminism imbibed this convenient distinction from cultural Marxism, and trans radicalism took it from radical feminism…
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2 years ago · 35 likes · 27 comments · Janice Fiamengo

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Too much wrong with this and I will write something on this subject in the future. To suggest that the suffragette movement never considered men's votes is incorrect. Men with no property marched with suffragettes out of common cause because they were eligible to go…

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