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The_Vegan_Chef t1_jayaiu0 wrote

I just find it amusing that the author of the piece claims to have read The Parallax View at 13, as if it was an intro into philosophy book.

The polemic aspect of Žižek cannot be taken for granted. Being offended by something he writes is irrelevant because it is the wrong reaction.
It's a thought experiment not an attack. The main point of the article, keep in mind an opinion piece for a magazine, seems to be perspective narrowing and it's social consequences. Defacto statements which are more focused on the emotional state of being rather than established findings. He creates his own fixed explanation of Woke , deals with the superego injunction, peoples responses and uses of it, and finds that the reactionary Woke that he describes is a blanket for right wing and non progressive left wing acceptance.

I only watched half of the de Medeiros video because he got caught up in his own ouroboros seems to have missed the fact his explanation and problems with the article are similar in form to the article itself without the polemic attributes.

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chiefmors t1_jayh25d wrote

I think it's pretty obvious that this just happened to be a subject that the author wasn't willing to read in the same mood and spirit they read other Žižek pieces. Or possibly that it's all fun and games reading Žižek playfully and in good faith when he agrees with you, but fuck that when doesn't.

I don't agree with the Žižek's article in question, but I also don't agree with much that Žižek writes, so it's amusing to read from a sycophant that \ Žižek lost the plot because in a single essay he disagrees with them.

Yet another reminder that everyone is willing to be intellectual and openminded until you disagree with them about something they've made integral to their self-worth, and in our era that's increasingly the political tribe you belong to. Žižek can be more progressive than 95% of the population, but if he disavows one of the progressive doctrines then he's still reprobate in that group's view.

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