It get weirder if you change it manually to English. At one point it put that he said "...nudist se grinder gamecube young world press freedom drive kart racing."
Irish sheep farmers all over again! _"...well then fine ass... and there wasn't the sheep discount out tonight... did you have a good dog a boo-boo dragon..."_
@Herra Tossavainen And exactly what kind of s**t do you think must be told about "blacks" or "jews" (the entire ethnic group)? I truly believe that there is nothing to say about any entire ethnic group, just to some ideologies (like US version of liberalism) o individuals.
There are only two options, it's massive racism because evil borns from intelligence, an animal can't be evil, only the closest to human animals show evil. Or it's because they considering they so backwards, ignorant and child like that all its another's one fault, my little child is very good, some one misled him. Child are not accountable. The second one it's more probable, it's also racist, but not so massively.
That being said colonialism fucked africa pretty bad and exacerbates some already existing problems. Which doesn't deny people's right to be potentially violent, crazy, evil... etc
@Kvothe Windrunner I'm sure you believe and like your Department of Defense approved media, but the only people Communists killed in mass were fascists and imperialists in liberatory movements. Nothing wrong that.
@Kvothe Windrunner Completely and utter wrong, you played directly right into the hands of capitalists. They laid out the bait and you took it. www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/09/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia/ The author of the gulag archipelago, as well as his wife, said the book was a work of fiction! He was also a fascist who praised Franco on spanish TV, and was disappointed when the Nazis surrendered. He deserted the red army instead of staying and fighting the nazis hahaha. There are anti-communist professors you know, they authored those studies. They come from the black book of communism, which lists Nazi soldiers as 'victims of communism' hahaha if those were the types of people that communists genocided, I wish they had killed 10x more. Mao killed a tremendous amount of imperialists, and their sympathizers, yes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with protecting your country from people who want to sell it's resources and people's labor off to the highest bidding foreign power. Globalist economy is the death nationalism and cultural & social relations. Mao did the right thing, it paid off, China is the most powerful country on earth now, and they're not even finished building the conditions for socialist transition while maintaining their social customs and nationalism. Yes they also lied about Hitler but I'm not a brain dead rightard so I don't care.
@Augustus Mars oh yes kill commies for trying to help society progress further in equality and societal well being, assuring basic necessities for everyone. they're so evil that they even kill violent racists and imperialists lol you're either a rich kid or extremely stupid
agree, i think this is what poisoned all conversations of this age, everyone is the vessel of morality, like "why hear what others are saying if im right since the begining?"
@Michael Cueva you're mostly right, just what Nietzsche meant in detail was that god is a creation of humans, used to keep people on track and not do evil. Throughout history this was a very important authority because people feared god and therefore did as they were told by him and maybe him only. But society has evolved and as you said a moral code has been established outside church and religious guidelines, laws are in place and work as well. So there is no more need for a god and many people abandoned the idea of his existence, hence he "died".
Easier for them to win all the arguments when they insist on doing all the framing, invent all the terminology, and definitions! Don't fall for it. Just because they have their framework doesn't mean I have to abandon mine even if they insist on judging me for it.
"moral high ground" is a void concept, since a _person_ has no "morality" property, only actions can _sometimes_ be characterized as moral or immoral. The only thing a person _is_ , is a _person_ . They are not virtuous or evil, good or bad, moral or immoral, intelligent or stupid. Only actions can _sometimes_ be classified as such.
To say nothing of his disgust habit of compulsively wiping (dozens of times), coughing etc. . his work full of "I'm so clever" wordplay, and obfuscation.
What fascinates me the most is his ability to argue complex ideas in the simplest way, rarely diverging to long from the main line. The lamest individual could comprehend his points, but when you read comments on his videos, you somewhat get the picture of the mainstream mentality. Zizek here literally argued what I have been thinking about for a long time and could never summarise it.
I can’t help it I just love Zisek. He simply always seems to find the essential subject and it’s always highly original. The real struggle is to find universality! Spot-on
You do understand touching your face is not a medically dangerous act in itself, right? He's under personal isolation right now, would you think that his house furniture is infested with the Coronavirus and he shouldn't touch his face after he moves a chair or what? lol
It's weird that liberalism and socialism/ communism is put in the same branch of politics in the US, and that liberalism is on the left in the US. In France Liberalism is more on the right with the Republicans.
@@Rayhuntter Wrong. Sometimes liberalism denotes an economic structure and other times it refers to social liberalism. In the case above hes refering to the social liberal types. Not everything is a capitalist conspiracy
@@MrHamtits and people on the economic left are intentionally associated with the so called "social liberals" by the ruling capitalist class when they have nothing to do with each other. Capitalist propaganda 101, if ever there was one.
@@parishermianos5159 Do you think you will survive that? I really wonder why he does that, is he taking speed or coke or is his nose just itching from the mustache and nose hair? I absolutely understand some of this when people are nervous, I tend to correct my hair all the time, but this is too much, he is even pulling up like he tries to get all the rest stickig in the nose.
Strong accent, funky respiratory problems and an excellent and accurate analysis. The most powerful way of uniting different people is through their similar antagonisms.
I can give you a story that happend with me with Liberals. Few days back an actor was a judge on a LGBTQ show called Rupaul drag race and he called out the audacity of one non-muslim contestant who wore hijab in his drag costume and asked him if islam is anti gay! You cant imagine the backlash that liberals had upon this actor. So i tweeted back to one of the famous ones and told him that I’m living in a muslim country and applauded the gesture and he continued to teach what islam is really about keep in mind he’s white non muslim teaching me, the one raised muslim, after two day there was purge campaign against homosexuals during the “holy” month of ramadan so i sent him pictures and links about it and HE BLOCKED ME this is the NEW LEFT all political correctness and no true principles
I'm against PC-politics to some extent. I dont think hate speech should be allowed. We saw what happened to Jews after centuries of demonisation in Europe and we also see other forms of this ingroup-outgroup identity politics of the right wing (Mexicans & Muslims) and their consequence on hate crimes. Thats why I dont buy into this. Also: It's not the US' job to police the world or get involved in business that's not there's. Eventhough they dont admit it however this was and this still is the ultimate foreign policy of the DC establishment represented by folks Biden, Obama or Bush. They're all the same when it comes to exploiting the world.
Well I guess I am against hypocrisy right now. We can't tolerate hypocrisy right?? As like other Abrahamic religion, Islam is indeed anti-homosexual so what has he done to you is baffled me. Just do not understand why they support an ideology that is against their very basic value. Tobe honest, this is frustating. They should be in the front line to fight for their values regardless of any religions
Yeah but that's a pretty stupid idea to imply that Islam is uniquely anti-gay. I mean thanks to Christianity, half of Africa is vehemently anti-gay to the point where you can even get the death penalty for being gay. A lot of this kind of legislation was thanks to evangelicals from America lobbying in their governments. Christian Eastern Europe isn't particularly friendly to gay either. So no, the problem isn't Islam but rather the people using Islam to push their homophobic agenda. Its the same shit as some Christians in Europe and the states. As with everything, you can't just paint a black and white image. Liberals do this, and judging by your comment, you seem to also be doing this. Ironically, even in this video Slavoj talks positively of Muslims (Malcolm X)
I have a friend who loves to announce to others that he is 'a citizen of nowhere' , and I can always see the boast in this: '' nearly everyone is tied to their cultural and national identity and so handicapped by their biased and narrow minded outlook , only a handful of culturally advanced people like ME can see clearly the realities of our world''.
"citizen of nowhere" sounds very American to me. In his attempt to be universalist, he has revealed his parochialism. We can only be so objective, and we can only expect others to be so objective. And this is not a bad thing unless we let it be. This, to me, is what internationalism, intersubjectivity, and solidarity are all about: recognizing there is no true, objective, universal perspective, but that we have to come together in a dialogue, a dialectic of different, subjective perspectives to find as much peace and understanding as possible.
Zizek puts himself in a very difficult position: having to explain that 'liberal' ethos, narratives and perspective are somewhat correct and necessary to a certain point and at the same time explaining the ideological limitations of these same ethos, narratives and perspectives and the underlying problems these people impose on any serious project for revolutionary change.
a struggle they'd have to conduct essentially against themselves. Either in the sense that many of them are Bourgeois to begin with, or wish they were Bourgeois and hence have to fight against their pavlovianly conditioned desires.
I see a lot of posters here who should be reading the world socialist website www.wsws.org/ For a clear analysis of the right wing politcs of identity politcs this website hits the nail on the head.
@@laurier3348 LMAO... you're replying to a fascist and going off about rationality and "souls"... Good grief what a clutserfuck of stupid the comment sections is.
“The true struggle is the struggle for universality”. If liberals admitted to this they’d have to drop their Id.Pol. BE and actually have solidarity with the poor and working class. The one thing liberals are loathe to do is help the poor, or cede that their own wealth may be immoral.
What is 'immoral' is but a matter of perspective, your perpsective of immoral defines who you are, so as soon as you get to define what is immoral or not, you gain identity, I cant see how its possible to close the circle, unless Mother Nature rocks up with Covid-19 and asks you to choose your true moraility.
@@acidsunrise Indeed it does, by trying to be the smallest giant, you have to demand that the smallest dwarves be taller than you. How dare they have the temerity to position themselves so that you tower over them even when you are hunched over full of self loathing in uber victim mode.
@Jay Milla Liberals aren't pro-idpol. They're anti-white. White women and white LGBT people get shat on and are viewed with suspicion as potential traitors. Who is the main driving force behind anti-whiteness? The Culture of Critique: www.bitchute.com/video/KUkk9xisGinI/
6:31 typing this to remember this really interesting point: Asserted universality of identity still presumes particular authority on the measure and structure of the space on which identity is placed. If you say you think everybody is equal, you force everyone to be equal in your definition of equal, which is a word that is often deeply loaded with subjectivity
@MrGuvnah I mean I don't know if she is really anti-white, I mean she did stan Sanders, despite being criticized for endorsing an "old white man" by the mainstream liberal media. What did she do to make you think this?
The rabbi jokes really makes sense if youve come from a low income background and gone into academia. Arriving at a prestigious school on an academic scholarship it really hits home that you're an outsider, especially considering that everyone else is there because their parents can afford the six figure tuition fees. I always particular enjoyed hearing the working class be discussed at parties and social events. Like with all due respect, I could take you to my hometown, to the shittiest bar in the area, and show you just how wrong you actually are. Consider the following, Donald Trump swept union territories (i.e. Pennsylvania) because while he was promising them a future, the democratic party was more concerned with transgenderism, immigration and environmentalism. Maybe these issues are important, maybe they aren't, frankly I don care, nor have a solid opinion on the matter. But the average blue collar Joe simply doesn't concern himself with such matters (at least o in any meaningful way), rather he concerns himself with his work and income. There's a significant drift in what the party elites of the modern left believe, and what their voting constituents believe. I'm not hugely into politics, I mostly use this as a pleasant background noise whilst I conduct my research, but I feel I had to share what I had found, comming from such a unique perspective.
@Andrew Friend Hahaha. I chose to do my masters. I am strongly considering a PhD. Perhaps I am a psychopath, but I can say with the utmost certainty, that I am a masochist.
the same is happening in Malaysia, but a little different where the right supporters which usually comes from rural areas do not concern their leaders involved in corruption like pandora papers as long their future is guaranteed, even though it involves racism. For context, in Malaysia's constitution, there is a specific term used which directly translates to human rights exists as long as "the special status of Malays and bumiputeras( a race of indigenous but ironically it does not include all indigenous people and cultures) is preserved, on paper, it is a racist and discriminating law or idk what to call it. So with this so-called thing, we called "ketuanan Melayu" which directly translates to Malay supremacy. So their kids will have education, special privileges like a uni only accepting Malays, a hedge fund only for Malays, a school that only accept Malays and so on and so forth. As a Malay myself I understand this perspective and experience it first hand. where the left concerns are political correctness. Where they fight for equality, human rights, women rights, anti-corruption things and all other politically correct issues. A concept that is generally very insignificant towards the people in rural areas. This comes to a really weird situation where the highly privileged people trying to politically correct people in rural areas what they should do what should concern them, that idea is alien from them.
Its funny to me that one of the wealthiest homes in my suburb has written Black Lives Matter written in colored chalk in front of their very nice stone walkway. These are the same people who are too snobby to even wave to their neighbors. Obviously too good for the rest of us but very worried about black people. Its really weird.
it was pointed out to me by my Yugoslavian ethics teacher that he had some doorknocker come around to ask if he would donate for some far off place where children were hungry. he said to the person "well, what about the homeless guy that is three blocks from here every day? what will you do for him?" and the doorknocker got mightily offended and left. it's easier to love the poor afar off, when you think they are the victim of circumstance and hate the poor up close because they, by our system of virtues, brought it upon themselves.
@@anonymousee716 The difference is, the poor person in the far off country will worship the foreigner that helps him and narcissists flock to such opportunities.
In our language there is a term for it - "кокетство". What these people do is called - "кокетничать". It means saying things about themselves just to provoke compliments towards themselves, or saying bad things about themselves implying that these are obviously not true.
In English, the concept you describe we call "fishing for compliments". However, this phenomenon also assumes a paradigm of sin and absolution which can only be conferred through religion (socjus, in this case).
I’m white. I’m a social Democrat. I don’t like identity politics because I firmly believe what you do defines you not who you are. Don’t play their game by pigeon holing and generalizing.
how can so many people not recognize this? i can not get my head around it. i see literally half of my left friends sink deeeeeep into identity politics. And they never come out again - they are insulted if you point it out.
I think we have a tendency to break down larger problems into smaller frameworks that we can easily assign solutions or fix. Classism and the consumerism that molds us into rigid predictable paths is often ignored by over exaggerated problems or caricatures of issues in society. There are people who are ostracized excessively for having certain conditions or identifying in one group or another. However it seems those that are hurting the most are rarely given attention. The solutions provided offer surface level acceptance usually that doesn't normalize whatever group they are seeking to help.
To say that one side of the divide embraces identity politics more than the other is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I have heard today. And I hear a lot of ridiculous things.
This is perfect and exactly what I've been trying to do online. There are so many people who fell into the idea of Qanon. Those are the exact people we should reach out to and try to talk to. They are a very large base of people expressing that they are suffering under the establishment, and showing them that the "Deep State" they fear is just capitalism would be a great way getting a lot of people on board with our messaging. The problem I have with identity politics is while it is true we need to push for equality, we cant just ignore the issues of those who's social conditioning has lead them into a trap. We feed the narrative of conservatives when we attack all white people, because some people just don't understand what we are talking about. I also really like Zizek's take on the idea that all of the evil can be because of one group bc it also feeds into the same white supremist narrative of attributing some quality only to white people, and while we talk about all of this "whos to blame" shit we still arnt addressing the material concerns of the people who need help.
Exactly. Based and nuanced and actually focused on problem solving. In America (I'm assuming from what you said that we're both Americans here) politics has really shifted much more to "fixing" cultural and social issues rather than material/political/economic ones and this has made us a bunch of petty, squabbling birds fighting over crumbs of ideology instead of real projects. Most of us feel the real projects, the concrete, tangible stuff, is out of our hands now, and in many ways this is true, since we are in many ways living under a kind of oligarchy where state and corporate power have been merged. At least that's my understanding. We need to address the root problems again and stop focusing on "holding whites accountable" like the progressives say or "holding J*ws accountable" (censored so that hopefully my comment won't disappear) like the traditionalist right say.
this is not capitalism who created deep state. it's left-liberal oligarchy who did that. there are countries with capitalism and without deep state. and all socialist countries consisted of deep state for 100%. woke liberalism is a new colonialism
I think the challenging part tho is it seems that a large chunk of these people we need to change the minds of, will not listen. Then consider that really we need to convince those that vote far-right, and those people are likely even more entrenched. I agree with all this, and have felt this was for a while, but I think that this can only be a piece of the solution. We also need some cunning alongside.
He speaking about human nature. We will never change .we are out of the garden ,pride always goes befor the fall ,gravity is ,u want beat Trump? Be more open ,more frank ,more honest.
I was in high school when I read handmaids tale and I never liked it. I thought there was something wrong with me because my teacher pointed it out that I was the only one with that response from the rest of the girls in class. of course It was not for the same reasons as Zizek (Was just a kid from a charter school in a low income community) I might have to read it again to remember why I didn’t like it
If you didn't like it, we should probably put you in a re-education camp and give you therapy so we can "fix" you and then you'll like it, just like you are supposed to. At least that is what some other people in this thread would like to do.
This is why I’m skeptical of heritage months. You can dish out months to certain groups, but that only implies that the year itself is white. It reinforces white defaultism. Also, I’m so happy he talked a little about Malcolm X.
I don't think "the white society" is even the default at play here, really. We just don't have an easier way to talk about clinging to a troubled sense of universality than with racially loaded terms like "white liberals".
I'm a civic nationalist and I like Slavoj Zizek. His ability to cut to the heart of the matter puts me in utter awe. He may be the best cultural commentator since Nietzsche.
He understands that identity politics is the problem he is a genius exactly moving more to the left rainbow coalition Fred Hampton they both think alike Fred is more pragmatic less philosofical
is this the voice actor from Command & Conquer: Red Alert? Subtitles would be good though, I literally didn't get any other part than when he was talking about the missile silos in Murmansk and submarine pens in Black Sea.
de chenmo I see a lot of posters here who should be reading the world socialist website www.wsws.org/ For a clear analysis of the right wing politcs of identity politcs this website hits the nail on the head.
Zizek really understands the importance of Bernie encouraging white working class and poor Republican voters to hear his message. This is the point: identity politics is Marx's false consciousness. True consciousness is understanding that social class is "universal," not identity.
@Vasilijan Nikolovski Because the 2 party duopoly have divided the country along the lines of identity and culture, not social class and economics. The "white - working class" have gradually joined the GOP since the late 60's. From the 1930's up to the early 70's, the Democrats represented productivity over financial ownership, but now both parties represent financial ownership. Neither party represents productivity. For the record, Trump's rhetoric was similar to Bernie's in this context. Trump said he wanted to bring jobs back, etc., - economic nationalism. This economic nationalism should amount to productivity, but I'm not sure Trump really wants that, or if he understands that in order for real flow of income and spending to occur, monopolies need to be broken up. America is extremely "top heavy" and believes that its empire needs monopoly. This is the paradox of empire - like the dinosaurs. Empire and dinosaurs both suffer and die from giantism. The working class, if they are to be capitalist, needs an economy comprised of mostly small and medium sized privately owned companies, not corporations. Otherwise, the only other solution would be socialism, which would put ownership in the hands of the entire population, not shareholders. To get back to why the emphasis on "white" working class, I'll add that those whites who defected to the GOP did so with the blessings of the current Democratic Party. They are known as the New Democrats, as opposed to FDR's New Dealers. New Democrats are Ivy League, professional, and snobs. This is no place for working people. The New Democrats are the modern version of the old Rockefeller Republicans of half a century ago. The political spectrum in America has been measured by identity and culture for too long. It can't survive like this much longer. The measurement must revert back to economics and productivity. The only other choice is war.
Identity politics is the result of people taking their instruction from advertising. In consumer culture, the splintering of society into "focus groups" is a natural outcome. That progressives were tricked into thinking "identity" had anything to do with Marxism or revolution proves only that they are the result of TV propaganda just like their domestic political enemies who vote for Trump and shop at Walmart. The status quo always wins if that's the only voice you listen to
Simon Barfield The working class want Med4all, free university, affordable housing, etc. In short, they want to lower the cost of living and doing business. The ruling class have monopoly control over the cost of living and ding business. They want us to be in debt till we die. Both parties are in agreement on this. Bernie seemed real in 2016, but less so in 2020. We still need solutions to our problems, regardless.
I just finished his book The sublime object of ideology. I've been watching his videos, documentaries and interviews alot lately. And it's just very mindblowing. This is what the left need. We all need to return to hegel
Why would you want to "return" to a hyper-reactionary idealist who thought that the Prussian State was the End of History is anyone's guess. The 2nd Reich committed horrible colonial atrocities which were the antechamber of the Holocaust. Marx and Engels already have taken all the progressivism Hegel had to offer and adapted his dialectical method for their own means. Hegel, being an Idealist, couldn't even comprehend that Matter dominates all, and that ideology comes from the Economy; whereas human Labour having constructed everything is a tautology, and basically Physics. Etc. Obfuscators are tools of the ruling class, and Hegelianism loves obfuscating. 😂
I think this is human nature. People will use any pretext to be at the top of the pile/centre of attention - even if it requires them to humiliate themselves.
when you find out, could you tell me? from context, i think he is saying "the only truly objective perspective". meaning a perspective that is *not* culturally derived, it sits outside of all culture judging like the Eye of God. but this is impossible, because nearly every knowledge system rests within some kind of culture, and science as it is practiced rests within Western Judeo Christian culture, so it has some of that same culture's inherent biases. and nearly ALL cultures have within them the bias that their own culture is correct, and other cultures are incorrect depending upon how they vary by certain beliefs, practices, etc from one's own. don't know if that is correct, but farther than that i cannot go.
It's the "Down With Us" phenomenon. There is no greater joy derived than asserting that one's own country, race, citizens etc are the worst. The reproach is the entire point and is absent any concession of the positive or effort to suggest a functional alternative.
