Formal equality in the right to communicate masks actual communicative injustice

Evidence

According to Adorno, Kraus’s critique of language is essentially true of ‘liberal speech’, or in other words, of the malediction that everyone having the same right to communicate became injustice in fact and in expression. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 992

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Habermasian exchange idealized as domination-free speech — Adorno is attacking exactly the communicative-rationality premise; connects to the Habermas-Adorno debate in critical theory. — connects to: Formal legal equality obscures real inequality because equivalence as a legal norm ignores difference — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 786; Formal legal equality leaves substantive social inequality untouched — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 959; Formal legal equality cannot deliver justice without social equality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 958 (+1 more)
• SEED: Potential essay: ‘When Free Speech Became Injustice’ — the liberal speech right as a structural cover for domination via the like-for-like coercive principle.

Broader Connections

• Formal legal equality obscures real inequality because equivalence as a legal norm ignores difference #corroborates (0.92) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 786