Slavoj Žižek: How Political Correctness Actually Elected Donald Trump | Big Think

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[@CoenM33]

Nah, thanks, i'll get smart at my own pace

[@SumriseHD]

2 likes. Yikes.

[@hieronymus..bosch8532]

@@SumriseHD 10,000 now .

[@MarkArandjus]

I'm a Slovenian watching a Slovenian talking about a man married to a Slovenian...

[@abdiganisugal825]

Mark Arandjus Slo-Ception XD

[@ChannelMath]

wonder if he has any insight into melania

[@MarkArandjus]

ChannelMath He was married to a model himself, so... maybe?

[@kevinsmith5360]

I bet that happens a lot in Slovenia.

[@Kazekoge101]

Slovenia has really good pastries right? Anybody who makes them in NYC?

[@nickvanamburg]

4:12 ultra rare combo: sniff -> beard scratch -> double sniff -> full face wipe

[@Sk-gg1vi]

Nick VanAmburg He is trying to activate a cheat

[@relentlessmadman]

you missed pick nose! wipe nose! where is my coke?

[@Baraa.K.Mohammad]

Oh my god! I'm dead... Please help XD.................

[@davidrausch7941]

godspeed sir

[@ZZFilm]

👍 Time to collect rare Žižeks like rare Pepes.

[@ahorrell]

4:01 LOOOLLLLL "Trump is a dirty disgusting human being. But do you really believe Rick Santorum is a human being?"

[@mladjo007]

This video is pure gold if for anything then because of that quote about Cruz, Santorum and a like.

[@VolkColopatrion]

How dehumanizing... still

[@kierkegaard240]

What you guys don't know is Zizek is a former professional baseball player, and he just hasn't gotten out of the habit of making signs to his teammates.

[@AdAstraCompany]

The Fuzz You know where to grab ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@papnlilly]

Kierkegaard Yeah... no.

[@Kai189300]

Kierkegaard xD lol

[@joeschmoe1193]

More like a manager or third base coach. Funny.

[@kierkegaard240]

Joe Schmoe Haha, right? I say all this out of huge affection for Zizek, even though I disagree with a lot of what he says. He's funny and witty as fuck.

[@kalashnikov1997]

George Carlin used to talk a lot about changing words to seem more politically correct, like torture being called enhanced interrogation technique.

[@danielr.7289]

..or "Shell Shocked" being called PTSD.

[@vascohenrique]

+William R. I think you mean the opposite

[@danielr.7289]

LHCBlackHole Correct. I'll have to back and edit that. Thanks for catching that!

[@TorquemadaTwist]

William R. You weren't wrong, that's just 'delayed correctness'.

[@danielr.7289]

True, it'll come full circle eventually and then back again.

[@alanovski.]

"My butt is this one" - Slavoj Žižek

[@strati5phere]

03:00 hahaha

[@OUTPOST209]

dibble LOL that was genius

[@alanovski.]

Thanks, mate! They are indeed. Shame they're inactive as of now.

[@drewbiewildstar6917]

hahahahaha

[@arcarsenal1380]

Is it me, or is Zizek's closing statement eerily prophetic

[@adamcarlone]

Did he just use enhanced seduction techniques on me?

[@awimachinegun]

no.

[@TorquemadaTwist]

+Adam Carlone Do you feel dirty?

[@spyguy6249]

no, he uses cocaine

[@yokab]

Slavoj as always breaks down the social and political map and does so in such an accurate way it's incredible.

[@FMEBAKERY100]

If you think this snot nose is incredible… I think… You may not even be human

[@TheLoneMaverick]

Zizek is what the left needs to hear right now.

[@arcarsenal1380]

@@wanderleireltihfloda5561 Irony? Or genuine psychosis?

[@cerebrustusbordungolski7183]

@@arcarsenal1380 Given the context, both.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

The right created political correctness. The left just uses it better.

[@televikkuntdaowuxing]

No Labels Exactly, and now the right has been smart enough to appropriate previously leftist terms concerning “freedom”: free speech, freedom to exploit others, etc,... While the Left has partially mixed together with liberals and the like of ex-maoists and lost its way, that is the problem, especially in the US where the majority of the left is like this. The point of solving injustices and inequality, especially concerning economy, has been labelled as totally useless.

[@televikkuntdaowuxing]

Wanderlei Reltihfloda You wouldn’t even be able to tell or explain to us what a leftist is, you disgusting excuse for an anthropomorphic being.

[@willchancellor6944]

"No! In politics we have authentic enemies. Everyone should not be respected in politics...politics is a real struggle of life and death."

[@DoomRulz]

Everytime I watch this man speak, I wonder if he's finally cured his never-ending stuffy nose problem.

[@StudioArrayMusic]

+Laura Indiana looks more like an undiagnosed cocaine habit

[@pitpao]

Naw, his hairsylist just forgot to put gel in his hair and beard. But yes he does say some pretty intelligent things.

[@jackhoff3910]

That's exactly how many cokeheads I know behave.

[@jackhoff3910]

***** That's also what many cokeheads I know would say to someone when asked if they use coke/drugs. You just don't ask a man if he does coke. That's the answer you'll get if you do.

[@omnisodium9869]

+Jack Hoff no, Zizek has never even tried marijuana he is completely cool with drug use, he's just never done drugs he grew up in Yugoslavia and was born with a deviated septum it was never repaired and just has gotten worse with age

[@YUInoRUIDO]

I might agree with his ideas, but I could never shake his hand

[@mlgquickscoper8122]

he has a mental disability

[@kierkegaard240]

Kikino Y?

[@markbtw7987]

That doesn't make his hand any more sanitary.

[@mlgquickscoper8122]

obviously

[@JediNiyte]

I'd do more with his hands than shake them. WOOF!!!

[@shkotayd9749]

Thank goodness for the transcript. *Rubs nose*

[@Ciciulins]

Shkotay D Hahahah

[@kurtt3914]

1. the U.S. now = Weimar Germany in the early 30s. 2. It is a critical moment as the risk of DIRECT FASCISM is now REAL than ever or both the Republics and the Democrats provide a new truthful answer to the people.

[@ValentinTzankov]

The Fascism in US is called Americanism !!!

[@tokyodriftingeverywhere]

and so on and so on

[@babavanga4363]

@@cheesecakeburgler The problem is that at least for MSM is manufactoring of racism where there is none and attacking anyone how critisize them and using various ism-s that desentisize people when actual thing occurs (sorry bad english :/ )

[@nastiaandrej]

I never thought Žižek might be my cup of tea, but he is. Thank you for sharing those videos with his opinion on a subject - it's very important to gather different points of view and not to live in a polar world. P.S. the more I listen to Žižek, the more I tend to touch my nose. I think it's contagious 😏

[@jjhjjff]

A phenomenon, such as Trump's victory, cannot be ascribed to one single factor; there were many. However, I agree with Zizek that political correctness was one of them.

[@Rockyzach88]

And that's why you'll remain a complete dumbass. The right was literally calling anyone acknowledging trans people as "PC". If you actually agree with this you are nothing even within the upward boundaries of trash. It's weird that these videos are being push to the top hard right now.

[@moormanjean5636]

His point on Hillary using Trump against Bernie was spot on

[@haebi-chan]

"Well although Noam Chomsky doesn't like me very much..."

[@deadhardy]

I agree with his point about Cruz and Santorum..they are much scarier in my opinion. They want to institute a theocracy.

[@checkmarkdatter1785]

I agree they are scarier options but "insitute a theocracy"? You do a disservice to the people currently living in a theocracy around the world

[@tchristian04]

Jebuiz y'har that, I think, is another reason trump beat Hillary. When someone says Cruz and Santorum are scarier than Trump, or scary at all, I can't take that seriously. People are tired of that kind of talk.

[@TheGreatCapra]

Nice profile pic :) I am scared of Miriam Godwinson as well.

[@mattbaker1453]

well said my friend. .......

[@indy_go_blue6048]

The republicans have been using that group (I hesitate to call them Christians) since the late '70s. They had some real power in the '80s but it's long since dissipated. You'll notice that the usual "that group" flame issues were barely touched on during this election cycle, especially after Cruz disappeared? The could care less about issues like homosexuality and abortion except as it gets them voters. (No more than the dems really care about minorities, women and gays.)

[@everburningblue]

To everyone making fun of his nose thing, it's a medical issue. You wouldn't make fun of someone for a hemorrhoid. Don't make fun of this guy. He's about as genuine as it gets.

[@everburningblue]

Although, to be fair, we can't let this guy see the movie Contagion. He'll have a heart attack.

[@alainischileno]

DID YOU NOT WATCH THE VIDEO

[@PockASqueeno]

Why wouldn't you make fun of someone for a hemorrhoid? I would.

[@RosszCsillag]

Daniel Smith why would you pick one of the most hilarious medical conditions for your analogy? regardless, zizek is a god and the people making fun of him are idiots.

[@LastDispensation]

I've never heard Zizek use the term hemorrhoid

[@Jawshuah]

"Do you really think Rick Sanatorium is a human being?" Bro I was dying on the floor laughing.

[@dec1ful]

This is great. I went in expecting Slavoj's at times heavy handed contrariwise, but what I found actually makes a lot of sense. in fact it's pretty much common sense. Political correctness is good as long as it is not a universal system of self-censorship that prevents people from criticising actually bad shit like corruption and greed. When it goes beyond protecting underprivileged people from hate speech it becomes reactionary.

[@矛盾AndsomeFun]

This is the only comment I've seen that captures the primary argument of this video-- as I also interpreted it, at least-- in a matter-of-fact way, and without any vitriol. I appreciate the slight bit of sanity that gave me =)

[@78TBGAMER]

@@矛盾AndsomeFun yes a lot of people in the comments are talking about political correctness as a whole being terrible, but his point is a really nuanced one.

[@moormanjean5636]

Finally a sensible thread 😅

[@moormanjean5636]

@@矛盾AndsomeFun people really hate to hear people like Zizek talk about things in terms that aren't black or white, not outright forgoing certain groups of people just because you don't agree with them politically

[@moormanjean5636]

What I love about Slavoj especially is his ability to make really hard-line yet nuanced statements, like political correctness is ok for LGBTQ but not for white power, in a way that isn't blown out of proportion. Another example that struck me from this video was how he takes the position that Trump was indeed a proto-fascist movement, but that it was the fault of the liberal centrist mainstream, which I agree with to some extent.

[@NakasDougen]

He goes on a really roundabout way to make relatively simple points

[@poohoff]

Isn't that what philosophy is all about?..

[@ShiddyTimelineClubMember]

I think when people who are fluent in non-English languages(predominantly European) try to explain their points in English they try to directly translate. Whenever I read essays or articles from European folks that have been translated they tend to be like that. It flows better and more coherently in their own language than in another.

[@oBCHANo]

You need to if you want to explain something to morons, you need to explain everything leading up to your point even if your point is simple.

[@omnisodium9869]

his roundabout way is brilliant if you follow his body of work as a whole he seems like he wanders aimlessly sometimes but he has these overarching themes and points that you really won't notice until you dive into his work

[@godlessnation9778]

Unfortunately that's part of what Philosophy is all about. They can't just make a simple point for the sake of it being simple... they have to explain what is simple about it. If scientific laws are elegant Renaissance portraits, philosophical concepts are very messy macaroni paintings.

[@zolniu]

How is that people who say they can't understand Žižek are almost always native English speakers. I can understand him perfectly and English is my second language, so it should be harder for me.

[@thisxgreatxdecay]

"Well, all though Noam Chomsky doesn't like me very much, I admire him sincerely..." Aw man, this makes me feel bad. Especially as an admirer of Chomsky's work who's never been a big fan of Zizek or other postmodernists and had a good laugh when Chomsky tore into Zizek. Zizek just wants to be friends with him. :'(

[@FreakyStyleytobby]

Chomsky is a typical narcissist. And not as big a philosopher as his image is

[@jameshicks7125]

I think Chomsky labors a bit under the delusion that just the right combination of knowledge and ideology can change the world. Zizek has gotten clear that this is bullshit.

[@boskee]

6 years later Chomsky ended up in the trash bin of history with his idiotic political takes.

[@Swediepinoy]

"Why can't we be friends?" 🎶

[@t.c.6920]

That laugh at 3:21 is so wholesome

[@Frank-oz8be]

Almost 7 years later and he's still right

[@xxGLhrMxx]

wow, a bunch of 16 year olds in the comments section, how surprising

[@mrnarason]

1.6m subs, do you actually think all of them are learnt, civil youtube watchers?

[@xxGLhrMxx]

***** apparently not ~90℅ of them

[@HewManatee]

Guilherme C. generalization is the mark of an educated mind 👍🏽

[@xxGLhrMxx]

David Dalessandro emojis are the mark of a highly intellectual mind as well

[@bytefu]

Guilherme C. There are no visual cues in a text conversation, so emojis are perfectly fine, unless one uses too many of them. Gosh, people nowadays are triggered by almost anything, even emojis.

[@ZetaMoolah]

The establishment got a taste of that "enhanced seduction." Lol.

[@colachan4668]

For some reasons I couldn't focus...... Did he talk about machinery or something?

[@HewManatee]

YiChuan Chen only as a means to allude to behind the scenes happenings in democracy-- machinery (as he mentioned) is the Marxist rhetoric though

[@Escape2SKB]

YiChuan Chen I heard just audio ... I like his talks but this one will encourage KKK.

[@colachan4668]

Thanks! I'll watch it one more time

[@Escape2SKB]

You mean listen :-)👍

[@colachan4668]

***** I guess it's the same XD

[@TheHydraccana]

American culture has always had a strong penchant for euphemisms, so PC and things like "enhanced interrogation" aren't surprising

[@pergamonrecordings]

Power is a double edged sword: there is the gesture of power and there is the deeds of power. What characterizes the current US debate is talk about the gestures of power (in other words, how not to implicitly gesture from a position of superiority: PC language). With it's hysterical focus on the "gestures of power", the US debate tends to simultaneously obscure the "deeds of power": housing policies, jail-policies, police-policies, voter-suppression, rampant income-inequality etc. I say "hysterical" because the focus on the gesture seems rather systematic and related to a broadly felt fear for looking at political-economy as a social phenomenon (oh my god, socialism). In the current US view the material world is framed as a mechanical system, the market, quite outside the social world. Whereas the social world is the world of individuals, gesturing to individuals. The first is seen as a given (naturally bringing the necessity of current housing policies, jail-policies, police-policies, voter-suppression, rampant income-inequality etc.), while the second is teachable and transformative. Seeing the world like that makes people blind for the deeds of power, the "system" as it materially and selectively oppresses. "Deregulation" is the keyword in this narrative. However, the truth is that every capitalist economy needs regulation (or it will develop slavery, literally, as is again the case in corrupted area's of Italy and Spain -- with illegal refuges). The narrative of "Deregulation" believes in a non-existing equilibrium of a mechanical market outside the social world -- it has been fooling Americans since Reagan and the ominous words of Margret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families". What she meant is: there is a market (the economic jungle of life) on the one hand, a given unchangeable thing, and on the other hand there are individual men and women, the social world, (and of course she mentions families because she was a conservative -- paradoxically not taking society as an extended family). This view was been fed to Americans for decades, and the result is, they tend to only speak in terms of individuals and so about the gestures of power, not the deeds -- the latter, after all, is just the holy market, the holy judge of status.

[@bobbycutts2111]

Yep, same old horseshit, only difference is these guys are living it now.

[@Boomersfdtheworld]

I AGREE 100% ABOUT CRUZ AND SANTORUM

[@EamonBurke]

I fucking love this man's viewpoints, even where I disagree.

[@deyshizzletv7175]

I don't know why but the humor of Zizek, the lisp and the nose rubbing is something infectious that gets me to be persuaded easily. The humor of his character is a really good persuasive tool that he utilizes well. I used to think that Jordan Peterson was great and he is in his own respective domain, but people like Zizek bring charisma and in depth knowledge to the table, which people like Peterson SEEM to deliver but only on a surface level

[@Angelo-uo2gj]

Once you get past his quirks and put on subtitles he actually brings up good points

[@dalanium98]

I think the summary on bigthink's website does a good job of summarizing his points if you don't have 8 minutes or so! link as the transcript in description

[@mpiercy89]

I absolutely love this guy! Although at the same time, as a member of the LGBT community, I feel as though making us an exception to this rule makes us out to seem weak.

[@mPrigipas13]

I suspect he'd be happy to discuss with you about this.

[@Erwin93200]

He just said that to not get harassed by your agressive community

[@eroldemiral9513]

LGBT community😂

[@avigindratt7608]

Christian fundamentalists are not horrified of Trump, they're the ones who voted him in.

[@ichbinein123]

I can assure you the Christian voters would much rather vote for someone else. The reason Trump appointed Mike Pence as his Vice President, was to 1: Gain the Christian votes, and 2: A backup so he wont get assassinated and Pence would rule the country 10x harder than Trump would, which no one would want.

[@AdobadoFantastico]

They're not, "the ones". There are no, "the ones who voted him in". Unless you're talking about "voters". He ate up unexpectedly large segments of every conceivable demographic. He even outperformed Romney in black/latino voters. It's not as simple as any one small segment of people. The vote was neck and neck. That doesn't happen just because of X or Y "group". The fundamentalists and closet racists would have just as soon voted for *any* of the other GOPs over Hillary.

[@avigindratt7608]

Paul Judkins It's simplistic by nature. Trump is a simple guy. There's not much to the way he and his supporters think, but we also do not live in a vacuum. It's not that people like me have been using 'racist' for too long, but that racism is as American as apple pie. It's taken for granted. I don't care if you're bored of it. I'm sick of it. People are bored of gravity, too; doesn't mean it's not real. Doesn't mean it don't affect me. I get bored, rather, when insipid adults blame the media as if they weren't complacent in the rise of AMerican fascism (ooh, sorry, don't mean to hurt your feelings with my 'labels'). But Trump is good for ratings, and therefore good for profit, and therefore good for corporate media, and therefore media supported him. Their critique of him was paper-thin, which is why every time he beat them. Any decent mind could see they are quite happy to have him.

[@avigindratt7608]

Paul Judkins I mean, it is clear that 'non-racists' who voted trump, or people who have no sympathy for BLM or for political correctness, or who just wanna speak their minds are sick of accusations. Now is their time. Their guy won. The same was true for Brexit. But it's not convincing that the accusations were false. By and large they were true. Deep down, however, I do know that white progressives co opted anti-racism and made it somewhat meaningless. But black people, brown people, Muslims, etc. - we know whats up. Racism never went anywhere; it's just more obvious now. I did leave years ago, actually. I came back because I believe in taking 'personal responsibility', as conservatives always emptily say. America is my utopia. I was born here. I love it here. I wish to help make it better. If part of that means I gotta call you out on your racism, then so be it. Your feelings of 'boredom' are secondary to the well being of my people. This election was, as you say, a rejection of left wing politics. Hard to argue the opposite. But that was true of Hitler and Mussolini, too, or more recently, Netanyahu in Israel, in S. Korea, Turkey and even the UK with Brexit. It doesn't mean the rejection is a good thing. It means we are caught up in a frenzy of hatred for bad reasons. I predict Trump will crash the economy with his tax policies, and further escalate wars in the Mid East. Massive civil unrest is already upon us, and harsh repression from federal authorities seems inevitable. I'm excited.

[@avigindratt7608]

Paul Judkins No, it's not all white folks' fault. But a lot of our problems with race are in fact white people's fault. History shows this to us. It's made even worse because many whites cannot bring themselves to take responsibility for what they've done and are doing, because they think that justice involves us doing to them what they have done to us. And though our feelings become inflamed at times, that's not the case. Yes, America offers black people personal freedoms, and it is also a racist shithole where I can be murdered with impunity by racists with badges. People with working brains can hold these two ideas in their heads at once. I imagine you can too. Overt racism is so not against whites. It's against traditional 'minorities' like blacks, hispanics, women, etc. White identity has so much power (as usual) it's ridiculous. But we love you anyway. Brexit was an extremely conservative thing, don't know what you were watching. Yes, like Trump, leftists like protectionism, anti-free trade, etc., but for very different reasons. That said, the far right and left ought to come together at this point, bcause most of us find the middle insufferable.

[@chrissysb88]

I had to read his book Pandemic and I can’t stop watching his videos 😍

[@rale5026]

You should read "A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name" if you haven't already.

[@tenajyebba]

Thanks for posting this. I love Zizek and want always to know what he says about anything at all.

[@WorshipDaKing]

There is so much spit on my screen.

[@flowers3438]

Worship Da King Now this is the way to make fun of someone. It’s hilarious. I love zizek though.

[@SlashBolt]

Did Big Think remove Alex Jones' comment?

[@cimmik]

It can also be youtubes weird censorship. Not necessarily BigThink. I think you risk to get your comment removed if it gets too many down votes, or if someone report it, and BigThink doesn't have to have anything to do with it.

[@akainminee3855]

Nope. Still there. Just read it.

[@TCDBane]

I don't suppose you could link it? I am curious what he says.

[@mirsad96]

Alex Jones? That con artist foil hat? Sorry i don't care about any comment he ever made. He is garbage.

[@HeyBOssguy]

Political Correcness is destroying the fabric of time and space

[@i.k.2485]

It also makes frog gay! ... oh, wait! Wrong comment section!

[@mirsadhamzic859]

Time and space? I think you need to lay down the bong.

[@thechewielj]

I just wanted to say, "Thank you Mr is Zizik for giving me some perspective, and making me chuckle."

[@dracumelenios]

touches his nose 63 times in 8 minutes that must be the new world record.

[@josecolon7267]

It's crazy how close Slavoj's opinion resembles George Carlin's view on Political Correctness so many years ago.

[@MichaelMarko]

I like Slavoj. You can hear the humaneness in him and I like his unglued twitchiness. He's a real person. Funny, caring and relevant and he seems like a really good guy. He always says something sharp and interesting. Why the "F" can't we get a president like this? Oh well, he couldn't get elected in Slovenia either. But he really put Slovenia on the map! If you're reading this Mr. Ž, here's a warm and admiring embrace from an unknown friend.

[@LeoTheComm]

Personally I think his quirks make him more accessable to the average person, he doesn't come off like a typical academic elitist. Seems more like a guy you could meet at a bar having a beer and cracking jokes instead of wanting to prove a false sense of superiority based on the fact he can use words with more than two sylabils.

[@alejandrobetancourt4902]

The Giant of Ljubljana nails it right in the center of the head.

[@UltimateSN1PA]

Fun game: take a shot every time he touches his face, make it a double shot if he touches his nose bonus points if you don't die

[@Nishmaelle]

Me and some friends used to take a shot every time he said "so on" in the documentary about him. It simply destroys kidneys.

[@reneedwood8703]

Is this a himym thing?

[@thehouseoflight]

Posturing. Nothing he says you wont think yourself or hear said in a bar in Europe

[@sonikhiphop]

... Can someone get this dude a tissue?

[@niamatkhan2068]

He is a jerk

[@ExOskeletal1988]

I don't get tired of listening to Slavoj Zizek. He reminds me of Silvester the cat speaking with his tongue out. I respect Slavoj Zizek as a Philosopher, he's got a bon fire of motivation.

[@HelgeStrichen]

3:05 my butt is.... eh... is this one

[@PennyDreadful1]

He is probably not a neurotypical. You normative little shithead.

[@crosscables]

Slavoj should be voicing cartoon characters with that beautiful voice.

[@LordSpacey]

At 6:40 Zizek says: “in ten years from now, rape will be called ‘enhanced seduction technique’ ”. While I agree with his point on political correctness, the example he gave is pretty bad. To be closer to where we’re headed, he could have said something like: “in ten years from now, looking at a woman without her consent will be called ‘ocular rape’.”

[@MM-vg9nw]

The example was actually spot on. Torture is a bad thing and enhanced interrogation is the torturers attempt to make it seem correct. Rape is also a bad thing and enhanced seduction technique is for the rapist to make it seem correct. For example a rapists lawyer could use this phrasing. This has nothing to do with "SJW" so I don't see why it had to be taken in that direction...

[@SamBassComedy]

Love this guy.

[@captainobscurity491]

Political correctness of the establishment, this is what Carlin talked about with soft language

[@invidious07]

Thank god for CC.

[@VaelBraga]

I lose it every time he says "and so on" 😂

[@moltimor4370]

I agree with his idea of what should politics be and so on and so on

[@memoryhero]

It's important to consume many different reactions now to what happened during and surrounding the election. Even if you glean only one new angle or element from a speaker, it is worth watching. Be intrepid and adventurous in your viewing.

[@vakoaglyc]

Tremendous, Slavoj! Spot on!

[@AntonioJelaca]

coked out of his mind as always i love him!!

[@liveinlove1001]

Antonio Jelaca hahahahahhaah

[@TorquemadaTwist]

Antonio Jelaca Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[@greenaum]

...and so on, and so on...

[@JackFou]

Antonio Jelaca sorry to disappoint you but he's most certainly not on coke

[@torsion2]

finally. Every fucking Zizek video people say 'ohh cokehead lolz111'. Thus removing themselves from the debate.

[@parsataheri2223]

The political correctness part is absolutley fantastic, absolutley fantastic!

[@ThePromisedWLAN]

*Touches Nose*

[@lbburgett]

Great talk! I love Zizek.

[@bornforburning777]

"Ted Crews"

[@dmx952]

Spot on Slavoj!

[@emanellaithy4339]

I agree with everything he says. Acting like a hurt lamb in a battle is rediculous.

[@7vanave]

The wrong description for this video is posted.

[@desislavvelchev8728]

Sir, I assure you, your nose is still there, you don't need to check every 3 seconds. :D

[@7vanave]

@bigthink the wrong description is posted for this video.

[@michaelgeinopolos6911]

Essentially Zizek is saying that political propaganda has failed to convince the public of not electing Donald Trump, and who is supposed to be the fascist?

[@anklebar1]

I love this guy, he always has something to say I never really thought of...

[@cimmik]

That's nice :) Don't forget to be critical. No matter how much you agree. I don't say he is wrong, just don't let anyone tell you what to think.

[@paradigmarson9586]

Seconded. And critical in the sense of critical thinking, not critical theory.

[@tonymines01]

Zizek is confusing ideas here that don't need confusing. Most people over the age of 25 still seem to have a real problem conflating 'Political Correctness' 'Identity Politics' 'liberalism' and even Libertarianism together based - from what I can tell - on nothing besides word association. These are not nebulous ideas, they each have clear definitions. I don't know if it's actually Zizek here or the Big Think editors, but the use of 'political correctness' in that title is really irresponsible. It suggests that those who voted for Trump to 'stick it to the fags' etc are deserving of a vindication which they are not - and is a clickbait summation on an idea already poorly presented. What he's clawing at, is how the centre condescends to the working classes with a 'correctness' language which rings as hollow to them and winds them up. This is because 'liberalism' abandoned dealing with the causes of problems when it got into bed with capitalism. That has nothing to do with 'identity politics' and 'social justice' etc. which are all about a resurgence of examining things causally and with context. And the euphamistic politeness of Politics and Broadcast News, that's nothing unique to the American center or the modern world. That's just the adult world since all time. Part of putting a tie on. Totally different idea again. But the media didn't fail to call Trump a fascist out of politeness they failed out of collusion. If there's a good idea to be squeezed from this it's that you have to be in the position to make your case if you want to make change. But power is not a vindication that you don't have to listen. Or if it is, that's something which ends badly for everyone. The Right are not suddenly entitled to not listen to objecting voices. They can try, but it will blow up in their faces. The center however, may have lost their entitlement to preach. The left, socialism and progressive politics remains vindicated *because* it is critical and self policing and fractious. And it still has the answers because it is the only of the three to examine the questions.

[@albirtarsha5370]

Big Think is horrendous at titling their videos.

[@ianxltd]

Spite Your Face Productions unfortunately political correctness has alllowed some on the left to dismiss the concerns of the doubters by saying 'you used the term..... , clearly you are a stupid, hurtful degenerate and I don't have to listen to you' but dialogue can only occur when both sides listen. Also then dividing and falling, as people like Stephen Fry get criticised for saying something which is actually far less corrosive than Trump, and from an intelligent and informed position, but. gets decried because he framed it in a way that upset some. people.

[@SOADslipsURknot]

+Spite Your Face Productions Entitled to not listen? We're forced to listen every time you throw a tantrum instead of discussing ideas. This is because every time we start to discuss the probable downsides of socialism, you get triggered and start yelling "propaganda". I wish I could support the American left, but the progressive cancer has ousted any sense of liberalism.

[@yarbles]

Spite Your Face Productions 👍

[@noegojimmy]

George Carlin was warning us about political correctness agenda and use of newly formed "mellowed" language two decades ago. Though many times Zizek claims something, other times he just in a way asks semi rhetorical questions which make you think and wonder. What a genius this guy is.

[@_A_D_]

Chronic nose touching leads to excessive saliva excretion.

[@Illlium]

I'm pretty sure it's a nervous tic, he's not doing that on purpose.

[@fburton8]

It's szecreszion, not excreszion.

[@daedra40]

+Illlium He could have Tourette's, but his mind is completely lucid and his points clear. That's what o personally think is important.

[@Illlium]

daedra40 Of course the point is the most important, it's just that I recall him saying somewhere that it's a nervous thing is all.

[@eleganz]

The guy in charge of uploading this video was like, "yup theres going to be a lot of comments about this guy"

[@aprice666]

I wonder what people mean when they complain of "Political Correctness"? What is it you want to say that the so called PC brigade/atmosphere is preventing you to say? Discuss......

[@Miranox2]

Political correctness can sound like a good thing, but in the US what is happening is that PC culture is abusing labels like 'racist' and 'sexist' in situations where it's not appropriate. For example, criticizing Islam will get you labeled a racist even though Islam is obviously not a race, nor do all Muslims belong to the same race. This is just one example of how PC culture is harming public discourse.

[@LemonSte]

saying islam is evil, as a lot of americans do, isn't the same as criticising it. To criticise Islam in an educated way, you must criticise religion as a whole. Because they all have the same rules and regulations, pushed in different levels in different areas of the religion. there are extremist muslims and extremist christians. The 'racist' argument comes into the islamophobia problem because people have associated a certain image with islam - middle-eastern, wearing a turban etc - which could actually be attributed to a whole other load of religions or cultures. On the whole, Muslims are people of colour in some capacity. Most white muslims are converts. Using the term 'racism' in this way is relevant because part of the hatred against islam and bias when talking about what a terrorist is has to do with the colour of their skin. A white christian shoots up a black church, he gets labelled a lone crazy even though it happens a lot and they almost always cite clear religious motives. A muslim poc does something similar, he is called a terrorist. Black person does the same, he's called a thug. Do you see where i'm coming from? when we refer to islamophobes as racist, we're not going on the idea that all muslims are people of colour. We're going on the connection people make between the two when they are condemning islam. I wish they'd just criticise religion as a whole and leave race out of it. it's not about being "politically correct", whatever that even means anymore. Seems to have lost it's meaning through misunderstanding. What this is about is making connections where they're due and trying to make people feel their rights are being respected in the process. Hope you understand what I mean.

[@aoflex]

aprice Milo Yiannopoulos would like to have a word with you.

[@Erikjust]

It also serves to water down the impact of the word. The term racist once referred to such things as the events shown in Mississippi burning or the chase where a white man bound a black man behind his truck and started to drive down a road until the man was decapitated. Sexist might have referred to those who literally thought less of women, those who said that because she was a woman her intellect where lesser and so shouldn´t be heard or allowed to vote or take an education. Or maybe because she was a woman her testimony was only worth half that of a man, so she testimony vs that of a man wasn´t to be taken serious. Those things where perhaps evidence of real racism and sexism, however today they are slung around like nobody's business as Anita herself said "everything is racist everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out." Well such things result in people putting less and less stock in those words meaning that they eventually lose all their meaning. You can call Trump a racist, bigot, sexist and so on and so forth all you want and for all intense and purpose he might be all those things, but since those words have been diluted so much nobody takes them serious anymore or even encourage the use of them as a mark of pride.

[@aprice666]

AlfaPegasii No. It means let's have a healthy adult debate. Something you won't understand. Now retreat back into your cave, and leave us reasonable human beings to have a progressive discussion.

[@spyguy6249]

I have yet to see anyone prove how trump is racist. Not liking people who break the law is not racist, defending your country and it's people is not racist, disliking a savage ideology is not racism. Racism is treating people differently based on race

[@joejk3]

he's racist because he disagrees with them

[@joejk3]

tcooke2 muslims are not a race and illegal immigrants are not a race he is at most a xenophobe, not a racist.

[@Asatru55]

You have just shown with your comment that you perceive only people of south american descent as threatening and not the concept of illegal immigration itself. So you are, in fact, a racist. Combine that with the 'mass rape' hysteria that you're also perpetuating and you have full blown ignorant, fear-ridden racism which is propagated also by trump and is the reason why he is seen as a racist.

[@joejk3]

Asatru55 >south american descent as threatening and not the concept of illegal immigration itself No, I also include mass immigration from any poor country, a country with low literacy rates, a country with high crime rates and a country which breeds a culture that is at odds with western culture. I provided sources. You didn't even look at them - you just called them hysteria and called me a racist despite the fact that I said nothing bad about any race, at most I denounced a subsection of the mexican nation which is willing to break American law. I did not say that illegal immigration from Canada was not a bad thing. Illegal immigration is worse than immigration. The fact is that Canadian illegal immigration is both less than 0.9% as common as mexican illegal immigration, and that there have been few if any reports of illegal Canadian immigrants being raped whilst trying to cross the border. Illegal canadian immigrants need to go back too. Your "you are a racist!" tactic is dead. It is not an argument. It does not refute anything I say. It is nothing more than virtue signalling and you simply want people in your ingroup to praise you for highlighting a member of the bigoted outgroup. It's frankly pathetic. People like you who reduce every concern of the right-wing to racism or sexism are the people who got helped get Trump elected. Only by addressing the real concerns of those on the right can you get their votes. Continue with this dishonest rhetoric and republicans will win in 2020, 2024 and 2028. Your tactic has failed. Learn from reality. Start to make arguments.

[@reyginaldaas5968]

It's racist to think that he is not racist...kiddin LOL But for real he is not racist but insited racist behaviour because there is people taking words literally not the message

[@eatcarpet]

But how did Political correctness made him win?

[@Nimue333]

eatcarpet Because Hillary tried to use political correctness to win.

[@herbertgayer8877]

it didn't and it's not even said in the video. just a stupid bait title.

[@TomekSamcik69]

People realised that this "thick network of unwritten rules" is a lie and voted no to political correctness. People chosed authenticity over pretense. Ugly Truth over comforting lie.

[@mmclxxii]

Mr. Žižek, you are my spirit animal i hope we cross paths

[@unlikeportraits4099]

There´s something wrong, he´s not sweating.

[@ZGGuesswho]

A good chunk of my friends are leftists, in order to fit into them, and to benefit from their social capital and their accepting warmth, I did not tell them about their outdated methods for dealing with civics, and social protection of minorities. I only told my close friends about my suspicions. I grew up brown in an overtly racist southern culture, but I was still friends with the individuals in it (even though they behaved like racists, they didn't understand the offense of their actions) and would easily call them friend to this day. They all have about 2 or 3 dangerous supremacists in their families, but most of them are just trying to live their own damn lives in this amorphous society that gets less familiar by the day. They keep their heads down to it, and a little systemic discrimination happens because of it, but obviously they can't isolate the problem, how could they? My smarter lgbtq++++++++etc and brown friends are fucking terrified, not really cause of trump but because of the old ass gop who we all hate trying to do everything they wanted to in the past that got blocked by obama and the federal courts, they're looking for any kind of show of solidarity from any of yall proud deplorables or real nervous southern republicans. We all just want some smart assertions that we are still together as American citizens, and frankly a lot of it is up to my leftier friends to get smart and figure out why they're relevant. I think people are sick of fucking democratic established candidates who aren't Bernie Sanders or maybe Elizabeth Warren (Corey Booker, Julian Castro, and all these other well groomed political athletes should stay right where they are if not be removed from office by voters) and that, regardless of the daemon we choose to execute it, we can build a platform that organizes our system to adapt to economic and sociopolitical reality with a focus on the individual and the citizen using our mass dialogue to lay into those machines we wish to change.

[@Mangina9000]

It is important as leftists that we try to acknowledge the part of Trump's platform that is actually helpful, which is the stimulus that would build infrastructure. We can't get too full of ourselves when we point out that this very stimulus was proposed by Obama as the American Jobs Act. This is how Trump won many rust belters. He made promises to coal country that were outright lies, and there's really nothing you can do to convince conservatives of this. There are industrial jobs that cannot come back. No amount of deportation will bring back the old economy. I think we just have to experience this hatred and let capitalism fuck itself before we can all agree that we need to build stuff and help each other again. Or maybe we really do just need to fall apart.

[@ZGGuesswho]

I absolutely agree; my worry is actually not Trump himself (i mean it is since he's all about a kleptocracy) but really about his influences. The last man in the room is the one that moves the Trump.

[@IONindustries627]

*GRABS NOSE*

[@albertoardilaful]

what a wonderful service of transcription, thanks a lot

[@quidnick]

Your spitting on me, Slavoj.

[@ale58301]

4:57 DUDE. COME ON.

[@Lluchelukacs]

"enhanced seduction technique" lmao

[@ii4m601]

Finally Zizek is back! Thanks BigThink!

[@josepenuelas4987]

enhanced seduction ,talk about grape culture

[@Gooberpatrol66]

"manufacturing consent" Have you and Chomsky made up?

[@AsIfInteractive]

It's a book (co-written) by Noam Chomsky. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Dar Eis opinion discarded.

[@dis4980]

Chumpsky and Slobber Zizek are idiots

[@mike3894]

Shouldn't someone help him with the seizure he seems to be having?

[@Nimue333]

Mike Clyne Hahaha

[@SundownTE]

You mean his cocaine habit

[@Nimue333]

SundownTE Where do you get that from?

[@marinmarinhola]

D Belle His Rudolf nose and the constant touching. Also, his twitchy gestures. He probably isn't on cacaine, but the resemblance is uncanny.

[@Nimue333]

marinmarinhola I think he has some type of anxiety that is why he twitches.

[@JBrooksNYS]

why does he keep wiping his nose?

[@oaxacachaka]

neurotic.

[@napornik]

Drugs brah... drugs...

[@JBrooksNYS]

i tthought he was on coke

[@epictetus9221]

He has never done drugs, he just has nervous tics. Which is so monumentally unimportant it's incredible how many people take time to write about it on youtube (myself included).

[@nightking2999]

Because you are a stupid normal person.

[@FirstRisingSouI]

You couldn't get someone who was easier to understand and more pleasant to listen to?

[@daruszero]

He's somebody that the Hillaries are supposed to listen to. ;)

[@eatcarpet]

Fuck this, I'm just reading the transcripts.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Shoutout to noam

[@kadymalloyvoice]

i fucking love this man

[@ryanbenson4610]

Good video but the title was misleading to me.

[@BaronNomis]

Manufacturing of consent is not Chomsky concept, but was coined by Edward Bernays in an essay in 1947 (The Engineering of Consent) ...or am I wrong ?

[@paradigmarson9586]

Sounds familiar from the documentary The Century of the Self. Anyway Zizek just wanted to appeal to Chomsky's fans and look like the better person while making a coded insult by saying he 'admires' Chomsky, just as he later professes to 'admire' Donald 'scum, trash and so on' Trump.

[@BaronNomis]

Paradigm Arson or maybe Slavoj is not aware of Bernays work. Anyhow, I strongly recommend reading Bernays, he basically is father of modern western propaganda.

[@JulianVidal001]

In 1000 years I will be glad to have learned this from you... Continue sharing your knowledge so others may reach enlightenment as well...

[@jellevm]

I've never heard Zizek be so wrong.