Slavoj Zizek challenged on Palestine: You're a puppet of the Jews!

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[@iwouldprefernotto49]

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[@skyofforest]

If don’t change your racist thumbnail of the angry arab i will report your video and make KZbin remove it

[@llamapartyy]

i love zizek but you are doing a major disservice by including that racist thumbnail and caption pushing for antisemitism. c'mon bro

[@xanjelx]

@@skyofforest talk about not understanding Žižek's point in the slightest.

[@Banjo2030]

Please change your thumbnail. It's not helpful, and plays into racist, dehumanising tropes about Palestinians / Arabs. Your title is also playing with an antisemitic trope, which is again not helpful. Please change these things as soon as you can, to avoid sowing discord in this difficult period for so many people, especially Palestinians and Israelis.

[@Banjo2030]

Fine, you won't change your racist thumbnail, so I'm unsubscribing

[@haraldisdead]

Zizek always sounds like he's mocking Zizek.

[@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg]

(his beauty).🥸🎓

[@PakistanIcecream000]

Video Summary: * The speaker questions why the interviewee supports framing politics as a left vs right narrative, arguing that Jewish capital is behind both sides in the US. * The interviewee acknowledges this framing as a problem but still thinks it's relevant. The speaker says this will result in a "dirty J" as punishment. * The speaker argues that looking at world capital structures shows other groups surpass Jews in average wealth, using Cuban immigrants in the US as an example. * The speaker says criticizing Israel is fine but blaming Jews obscures the real antagonism of the political system, where the problem is rich vs poor rather than Jews having money. * They ask who really corrupted the Democratic party and invented political correctness to prevent popular mobilization.

[@jerry_moo]

This comment should be pinned

[@00st307-m]

Thank you!!! The audio isn’t the best so this helps a lot

[@dadiarfs8261]

Yeah, but put that way someone could call Zizek "class reductionist"; it´s not that the "real" problem is the opposition rich vs. poor, it´s just that there are power structures -encouraged by capitalism, that go beyond the wealth and interests of particular groups of people. Therefore, blaming one ethnicity is obscuring the forest for one tree. It´s a great answer really.

[@EarlofSedgewick]

​@@dadiarfs8261not sure who you're responding to, but yes it was a good answer, considering the time limitations of a Q&A

[@Ce0ammer]

You will get a dirty joke. Not dirty J.

[@cheerinyew]

The day someone works out how to get a high quality audio recording of zizek without significant noise, they should win the Pulitzer Prize

[@Simjorfeo]

I know you're joking, but the Swiss national broadcasting company SRF has several high-quality, quite recent interviews with him on youtube in German and English.

[@rig4365]

The close caption works really well.

[@move2003ny]

haha I find all the noise endearing. But yeah, if you show some random person a clip of him and say that he is a famous public speaker, they will think that you must be a lunatic.

[@circles79]

or simply use a lav mic, because brilliant as he is, he has terrible microphone technique. He doesn't move the mic when he turns his head to speak, making it impossible to hear.

[@zagyex]

oh hshshut up

[@rederickfroders1978]

Guy asks a question and then doesnt want his answer

[@benzur3503]

Antisemites rarely do

[@Santino369]

​@@benzur3503Antisemite my ass.. Everytime antisemite this antisemite that.. What's the problem with be being antisemite?

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

​@@benzur3503but do you reject the genocide of the Palestinian people?

[@chashmal10]

Yea he just wants to hate Jews lol

[@otoyoto7153]

He already decided what he wanted out of the exchange, he was purely there for a shallow, shitty "gotcha" and Zizek saw that immediately, didn't feed into it and that's why the guy objected before Zizek even finished his first point. These people are some smarmy bastards to try that on a well equipped and witty intellectual.

[@rubentorregrosa9722]

People who are uncomfortable with the positions Zizek is questioning with the Palestine/Israel conflict saying he is just a puppet, he doesn't commit to the cause, he just corrupt and so on, are the type of people who need to hear him. Don't you see what he is doing? He knows he has an international audience that will push back on being critical about the conflict, he is not just giving another annoying joke here. Now more than ever people like him are needed at their best.

[@Padraigp]

I can barely understand what eithe r of them are sayi g.

[@Padraigp]

I can barely understand what eithe r of them are sayi g.

[@opinion3742]

What is he saying that we must listen to? This was not a very enlightening snippet. What is his position?

[@NacrunoCreations]

He gave a 25 minute speech on the conflict last week bro lmao@@opinion3742

[@tallgnome3229]

@@Padraigp turn on the captions theyre not perfect but theyre good enough

[@saifalwawi7967]

I'm a Palestinian and i find that guy's comment us so disrespectful to Zizek and his philosophy, complete misunderstanding of what he was trying to say during the whole thing.

[@nickmullen9510]

A rare unradicalized Palestinian appeared

[@thesuperiorman8342]

@@nickmullen9510 a common bigot appeared

[@bernhardgroeneveld7318]

@@nickmullen9510LOL most palestinians would simply like to live in peace with their families, just like most israelis. It’s always a minority of dumbasses that destroy the life of the peaceful majority.

[@user-vv9lr2rw5d]

He’s right though,pretty much all pali Arabs are foaming at the mouth ideologues. It’s gross

[@dummlp]

​@@thesuperiorman8342have fun in Palestine

[@renkuro1221]

Zizeks patience and poise is unbreakable i swear

[@dorfmanjones]

Zizek just got tongue tied. That's because it wasn't so much a question as an accusation.

[@move2003ny]

an insult even

[@mikiafu]

It was an antisemitic nonsense.

[@wrathofgrothendieck]

he was visibly shaken

[@CapPanaka]

My thoughts exactly. Not much of an answer for not much of a question either.

[@NathanielHellerstein]

@@mikiafu Also *anti-semantic.* It's against words having meanings.

[@TheDonteventalktome]

That dude was being incredibly antisemitic I’m sorry. Zizek should have called him out even more than he did honestly

[@schizophrenicenthusiast]

He was being a stereotyping idiot, not antisemitic.

[@yeah5874]

He said that "Jews are behind both left and right politics" how is that not antisemitic

[@TheDonteventalktome]

@@schizophrenicenthusiast how is saying Jewish stereotypes not antisemitic? That’s ridiculous

[@MrRrusiii]

Yeah I don't think anyone is gonna change that guy's mind, but I like the question of "what is your alternative narrative" This guy's alternative narrative, if he had to ask himself, would reflect an embarrassingly stupid worldview

[@Cradleling]

@@schizophrenicenthusiast Please explain to me what antisemitism is.

[@MxLee192]

For those who say Zizek should have just raged at this guy and cancelled him as an anti-semite. If he did that, he would firstly be going against his own arguments against political correctness and his criticisms of the hypocrisy behind calls for Equality, Diverty and Inclusion. Secondly, by handling it this way instead of getting triggered, Zizek demolished the guys argument and made him look dumb to all who are capable of reason. He was never going to convince the guy asking the question, but he made that guy a minority by demonstrating it was incorrect. Thus dealing with the problem.

[@gerardotejada2531]

If the left would do what Zizek does instead of following the Cult of Political Correctness we wouldnt have a right wing uprising. As Zizek said, Trump's best allies were the leftist liberals that hated him. Sadly Trump didnt achieved his historical role, no one learned nothing. Its still Zizek vs the whole world.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Exactly why I love Zizek here.

[@cipaisone]

Perfect behaviour from Zizek

[@younoskahn1]

gotta love Zizek , always respectful and on point with the piercing Truth

[@Branahtd]

i like the guy's critical thinking and his takes generally too, but I fail to see the point he wanted to make; may you please elaborate on this "piercing truth" you gathered from his insights? (besides the objection saying that we shouldn't blame the jews rather the social/political system, which I agree about btw)

[@meepins]

What? His answer to the question was complete sophistry.

[@samiserhan6296]

​@@Branahtdit's hopeless. these people worship Zizek and think that whatever incoherent words he spits are gospel. We live in the age of personality cults and even our rising critical and free thinkers need a daddy. It's funny that Zizek himself beautifully talks about the Master dialectic. But i doubt they've read anything for him. They just want someone who supports their spineless take on a brutal occupation because it safeguards their interests.

[@Branahtd]

@@samiserhan6296 just as I thought too. Thanks for the comment bro. Greetings from Tunisia.

[@samiserhan6296]

@@Branahtd greetings from lebanon 🇵🇸

[@biaispravda]

lol Zizek has got a truly compassionate heart to not outright spurn that bigoted question - an attitude which makes total sense philosophically.

[@jikkh2x]

These leftists got another thing coming if they think the oppressed give two shiits about their “bigotry” and “antisemitism”

[@hussaindrees5781]

Are you trans

[@MrMilkymilk12]

You can tell Zizek is utterly perplexed at the bigotry nature of the question, which borders on (19th century) antisemitism. I mean, how do you even begin to explain that there is in fact no international Jewish conspiracy pulling the world's purse strings. It seems like Zizek doesn't know if to answer the question itself, which explicitly questions why he is supporting "the Jews", or to answer a question regarding his--not really support--but mere acknowledgement of the pain and injustice that was and has been inflicted upon ISRAEL.

[@TheDonteventalktome]

Yeah it’s an utterly ridiculous and antisemitic (age-old, as you said) question

[@luke9947]

Yeah, how did someone with these ideas even get there?

[@PakistanIcecream000]

No.

[@PakistanIcecream000]

If there is not international conspiracy pulling the world's strings, why is Israel so strong military?

[@jikkh2x]

@@luke9947 He must have watched the videos of congress applauding Netenyahu like he was Stalin and they were clapping for their lives

[@K55365]

Nice deflection by Zizek. The Cubans in America don't have a lobby like AIPAC that dictates the political discourse of the American Congress and Senate.

[@amadeusakreveusmusic3356]

Someone who gets it! I don't think anyone has a lobby as influential and with legacy like AIPAC.

[@filipmujic]

Christoph Waltz will play the best Slavoj Zizek some day

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Lmao! Yeah

[@roderbergis4038]

i was there, the worst part was, that the antisemit left directly after his second question leaving poor zizek here speaking to the void for half the time lol

[@tomvasseur2256]

The antisemite is obviously an idiot but out of curiosity, do you know what was he saying at 0:57?

[@_sayan_roy_]

Where did this conference happen, if I may ask ? I heard he was in Frankfurt, Germany recently. Is it the same conference ? If so, then, oh boy.

[@roderbergis4038]

@@_sayan_roy_ it is the 'reading' one day later, after his speech in israel/palestine in Frankfurt, yes. Sadly there was not much reading, but only discussion about his comment one day earlier.

[@tonycairns6728]

I just gained more respect for Slavoj. Very weighted answer.

[@boneybone8123]

01:31 "Cuban immigrants surpassed the Jews on average wealth" is that a Scarface reference? 🤔

[@Vlain-hc5sb]

Now we know who truly is behind wokeness and is disturbingly rich

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

Yep... NYT, MSNBC, CNN, Warner, ADL, Disney, NewsCorp, AT&T, Bank of America, FED, Blackrock, PayPal, Neftlix... all run by Cubans... hahaha

[@gigatremor9756]

Was this the questioner's first time meeting Zizek? He should know to wait at least 30 minutes before saying, "see you have no answer".

[@cueva_mc]

Not everyone has the ability to not take criticism personally.

[@move2003ny]

it wasn't criticism, it was an insult. And a totally unjustified one, at that. But yeah, it was admirable. I certainly wouldn't be able to

[@masquecenamarada945]

@@move2003ny why

[@move2003ny]

​@@masquecenamarada945 happy to try and answer your question, but can you please be more specific. I mean, why what?

[@markhasleton6403]

The usual anti Semitic trope.

[@ShishiSonson]

The usual rich joos

[@opinion3742]

The usual weaponizing of antisemitism to shield an imperial power intent on genocide.

[@jasperchance3382]

@@meepins no, just prejudice

[@kyliekulinski3856]

@@meepinsyes, capitalists.

[@lilhyena7534]

​@@meepinsthey can just look up publicly available information which is overwhelmingly in favor of what this guy was saying, but then they say "well that doesn't mean/prove anything". the stockholm syndrome is too strong with them 😂

[@cezar211091]

What a silly provocateur trying to trap Zizek.

[@opinion3742]

What is Zizek's position on the conflict?

[@benzur3503]

⁠@@opinion3742at the beginning of the convention he made himself pretty clear. Hamas and Israel are condemnable and the Palestinians deserve better than this dichotomy

[@Josche-hc9lu]

Totally incomprehendable

[@Josche-hc9lu]

and so on and so on

[@wrathofgrothendieck]

blah blah @@Josche-hc9lu

[@p.trrr1]

"Jewish capitalist are behind both left and right in the USA.", I find this preoccupation dangerous

[@hansfrankfurter2903]

Zizek looked terrified by the question! poor man he had to lighten the mood with a joke!

[@move2003ny]

Zizek is one of the few people talking sense these days. That’s probably why he is getting so much flak from both sides.

[@mizanursakib2076]

But what is he actually professing.. Can you brief me on his point pls?

[@etsequentia6765]

@@mizanursakib2076 Yea didn't get it either. Sounded like muddled mess. But at least Slavoj made it clear he's not aligning with the Jews in any way. Phewww, I swear I was beginning to suspect he's a Jew sympathizer there for a minute.

[@Bigpoopa32]

Zizek's point is that the social problems attributed to Jews by anti-semites are really problems already present in that society. attributing it to Jews is their way of saying "it's not an issue with the social order itself, but these outside antagonizers are causing these problems and if we get rid of them then things will sort themselves out."@@mizanursakib2076

[@pointofthisbeing]

Within the immense complexities of life there are directly intractable problems: simultaneously, contradictions can be true. A response of a person, of a people, is the result of the surroundings which forms them, which in turn can be influenced by a second group with varying levels of culpability and responsibility. _There is no guarantee that this response, necessitated by power differences, may be able to discriminate and still have an effect._ There is no morality at this point; it is simply unavoidable fact. Zizek is attempting to show that, in the face of such a paradox, a less direct approach which combats the most significant enabling element--in this case, the myriad, myriad problems of hierarchical economics--may, at this point, offer the only possibility of hope, unless we wish to bury our heads and morality in perpetuity. Guess which the rich and powerful of the 'left' and 'right' prefers. @@mizanursakib2076

[@pingukutepro]

Being a centrist is a hard position this day. Liz Cheney, Romney had already gone.

[@Armouropoulos]

People speaking aloud about Jewish conspiracies in a very prestigious event in Frankfurt... It's amazing and scary how many steps behinds the world has trodden in the last few days.

[@taylormanning2709]

Could anyone provide a source on his claim that Cuban Immigrants have surpassed Jewish Americans in average wealth?

[@soulsmouls]

He made it up

[@taylormanning2709]

@@soulsmouls ok then can you provide evidence to the contrary? I’m open to either being true but “average wealth by demographic” isn’t easy search to sift through

[@soulsmouls]

@@taylormanning2709 I cannot provide evidence for something that does not exist

[@taylormanning2709]

@@soulsmouls you’re right that no single source contains both income-by-religion and income-by-ethnicity. pewresearch identifies 44% of Jewish Americans as 6-figure earners, likely placing their median around $80k-90k. In a separate article, they state that the median income of Cuban-americans is $38k. I understand the difference of median and average, and that Zizek spoke of averages. Unless there are some insane outliers, I do not see how the averages can disagree with the medians considering the difference

[@adrianaslund8605]

​@@taylormanning2709I take it you are a much better person than soulsmouls.

[@EuropeanEmpireEU]

Did the questioner read too much Mein Kampf? lol

[@scepticartivist7922]

Wonderful response, specifically the very last point!👍🏼

[@MystifulHD]

Full video?

[@piotrszostakowski416]

Anyone knows the joke which Zizek wanted to make?

[@zingoid2710]

I dont think he was trying to make a joke. I think he was trying to point out that there is growing antisemitism in America, with a rhetoric targeted at their wealth etc. and he tries to make a point that actually the most well off immigrants are Cuban, which basically points to the fact that Jews are just the scape goat, the enemy, the target, of a growing social discontent created by Capitalism.

[@etsequentia6765]

If you find out, let me know.

[@TeaRiker]

wow. He rips the argument apart on its on terms

[@otoyoto7153]

It think this is the route the left needs to go. Frictionlessly accept the premise that Jews control a lot of the money and such because it's undeniable and denying it only makes you look disingenuous, but bring it to an even more fundamental conclusion about capitalism rather than some ridiculous ethnic cleansing fantasy.

[@amalayum]

How? He didn't answer it at all, he danced around for 3 minutes and then ultimately answered something else entirely. He complained about the system, which was built by the people the questioner is asking about. He didn't answer it at all.

[@otoyoto7153]

@@amalayum Pointing out that the answer is systemic rather than a question of ethnicity might not have been the answer you want, but that doesn't change that that is the answer. His point is clearly that if it wasn't Jews largely occupying this role in society, it might have been Koreans or Cubans or whatever. Again you might want the answer to be some sort of Jewish question bullshit, but that doesn't mean it is.

[@TeaRiker]

@@amalayum The problem is that anyone who believes that the jews control global capital has completly severed himself from reality, which makes it hard to give him any definitive argument. The only thing you can do is to remind him of the actual reality we live in.

[@OsirusHandle]

​@@amalayumExcept it wasnt? you actually look historically and no "group" built it, its a dynamic social, economic and ideological "creature" that spurns itself forward. saying that jews built capitalism implies everybody else was somehow a zombie or robot that "could" be programmed. like seriously, two of the biggest monopolists in US history were Ford and Disney and both were raging antisemites, disney even flirting with hitlerists directly. ask how they got rich and the story is as you see everywhere, a mixture of opportunism, exploitation, luck and technological/structural innovation, no evil cabal necessary.

[@FagnerAro]

I love Zizek because he triggers both tankies and nazis

[@wrathofgrothendieck]

lol

[@sasatodorovic3210]

I didnt understand anything he was saying

[@TounInTheHole]

The Juice

[@techboy2002]

The strategy of polarisation from the west is in full clarity here. Its only a matter of time before Palestine is lost and we start condemning each other rather than the subjects of this castastrophe

[@Cradleling]

There is no strategy, the polarization you are seeing is happening by default. Sorry.

[@opinion3742]

May none of us be puppets of any imperial power.

[@loscilla]

there is no global-scale polarisation caused by one party. you are not much better than blaming the jews like the man in this video.

[@chashmal10]

It’s already lost. When Hamas did that terrorist attacked, they completely destroyed and remaining possibility (what ever there was) that there would ever be an Arab state there. There won’t ever be, anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant of the ground reality, too caught up in ideology, or both. It is as clear as day that the Arabs aren’t getting another state there. It’s over. Has been.

[@jmmh1313]

​@@loscilla i mean. There is global polarization happening due to the very geopolitics of the world in this days. This is not a conspiratorial thinking. It's an acknowledgement of the fact that china and the US are not friends.

[@MrPink1750]

A Lot in the comments seem to misunderstand Zizek. First of all, I think it's silly to deny that many extremely wealthy Jews who support Zionism, have or had major influence on both political parties of the US and historically also held influence in the political parties of the UK. Sheldon Adelson is a perfect example, We can all see why it's so very problematic to make this argument and must be carefully observed and highlighted, it will still be extremely difficult of an argument to make. What Zizek understands is that in a capitalist system, this can happen, capital will always dominate over the political ethics of a society. Hence why he believes to stop said influence, which is natural in a capitalist system, we should look to reform the system itself and not seek to limit the powers of certain individuals or god forbid groups.

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

Cuban immigrant average wealth statement seems incorrect from all I've personally found thus far.

[@cooofffeee]

the definition of incoherence

[@NIL0S]

The speaker asking that question is one step away from answering himself. It's not about Israel vs Palestine, it's about the polarized extremists behind it on both sides. Hence you have to criticize both.

[@immortalnightbody]

How is it both sides when Israel is the occupier? You can criticize both, but both sides didn't get here together at the same time for the same historical reasoning. That's just a straight-up lie.

[@kronikhaze8674]

​@@immortalnightbody,Israel being the occupier doesnt tell the whole story, that is just spinning a narrative. Yes they have hatred in their hearts as well, but please go read up on some history friend. Im not a Zizek fan or a particular fan of Israel, but dont act like you havent heard of 'us vs them'.

[@NIL0S]

Incredible, KZbin is not letting me answer this one. I think that both sides have blood on their hands, it doesn't matter how you spin it. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@immortalnightbody]

@@NIL0S The occupation of Palestine by Israel is the original sin from which all of this stems. History doesn't have winners and losers, it isn't some closed loop.

[@let_me_explain8572]

This guy's been giving public speeches in English since the 90s and still manages to speak like an average uber driver from Eastern Europe

[@vidselih]

Now tell me why would that be relevant to his philosophy and thinking? Were you not able to understand his narratives and ideas? Going "ad-personam" or what?

[@grrr.9998]

Yet, you don't sound stupid at all, do you?

[@let_me_explain8572]

@@vidselih oh I almost forgot they sucked the concept of humour out of the left

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

@@let_me_explain8572I mean ur idea of humor is a black guy laughing despite being white

[@emanuelpetre5491]

Surely a true leftist wouldn't consider being called "an average uber driver" an insult?!?@@vidselih

[@toncicoric6327]

Zizek is expressing his opinion, others don’t have the bolls to say it. Bravoo Mr. Zizek!

[@grixlipanda287]

He couldn't even repeat the statement "Jews control the narrative of the Left and the Right in the US" all he could say was "blah, blah. Yes I agree with blah, blah." He also agreed that he is a puppet of the Jews in this recording. Quite the interview.

[@2ClutchGamers]

It is about CLASS

[@sammorrison8042]

i find that guy's comment so fascinating man

[@patrickstammer3049]

You can disagree, but public should be respectfull!

[@renatogaucho7810]

he said that in the end , but still he will support liberal imperialism in every key moment. Agent of the west from 80s, we in ex Yugoslavia know this very well.

[@mattiayt7923]

As a punishment you will get a dirty joke

[@AlexMiddleton111]

Sounds like a puppet

[@Magneticvortex-kk4gb]

can't believe people still think this way

[@etsequentia6765]

Hoards of people were chanting "gas the Jews" and celebrating the slaughter of Jews just a few days ago. I can't say I'm surprised, sadly.

[@dummlp]

The majority in Muslim countries thinks this way (about Jews). That's why they profess their hatred of Jews and Israel without helping Palestinians.

[@K55365]

The guy spoke the truth. Zizek deflected his question like a coward.

[@Magneticvortex-kk4gb]

@@K55365 you wouldn't know truth if your mother introduced it as your biological father.

[@toomanytamales1323]

Having no context this is incomprehensible.

[@marcvanderbilt9324]

😂😂😂 in this world the arabs have the money and the oil, not the jews.

[@MacShnibbles]

Oh thats why 17 out of the 20 richest men in the world of "juice". And thats why 1/3 of nba team are owned by them. Thats why 5 of 5 biggest Hollywood companies is run by own and invented by them. Explains a lot... You are a puppet of them. Now scream Antisemite without even knowing what a semite is.

[@AkkarisFox]

I saw a biologist lose his job because he reposted an article from the onion: "Palestinians criticized for not denouncing Hamas with their last words".

[@AkkarisFox]

Every political party has a political correctness angle

[@_sayan_roy_]

You are never safe in being Onioned. His company wasn't smart enough.

[@isaiahbasaldua924]

a very good response too a very antisemitic question

[@leonhardheiliger2605]

It sounds from his mouth as if he had just read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[@Ndo01]

I wanted to hear that dirty joke

[@akbar-nr4kc]

what is zizzek views on john dewey educational philosphy? can anyone know plz tell me my friend ask from me

[@Jake-bh1hm]

Embarrassing

[@notthere83]

Are people missing that Zizek said "Yeah bla bla - do you have a solution?"? Among decent people, that's close to maximum acceptable rudeness.

[@_sayan_roy_]

I just realized that the conference seems to be in Germany. Yikes.

[@postpostpost]

Amazing

[@gulher.m]

What challenge?

[@pillowstone]

Babbling posturing nonsense as usual from ZIzek 👏

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

Literally me in the thumbnail

[@thejackgoldenbergsho]

😢 i patiently listened to a number of his lectures: The man may be intelegent but he presents himself as a confused, babbling professor with a basic difficulty in presenting his own case. Not appealing the general Western audience.

[@apollochimp]

Completely incoherent.

[@Oneorangejuice]

It's not incoherent, anti semitism means nazism and anti-freedom.

[@pyxel]

any has some data pn the average cuban vs jew whealth in us please?

[@boenagever]

He can't recognize antisemitism?

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

It's only mind games, as philosopher John Lennon once said.

[@boyfoe]

Immediate ceasefire.

[@americafirst834]

This man made me lose 20 IQ points listening to him

[@captainjacksparrow698]

''juice'' 😭

[@manfrombritain6816]

this is a guy in an audience to hear a philosopher - presumably someone quite far above average intelligence - yet he is still irrationally tribal and preferential of his in-group. as are the people on the other side. they'll pull us into a huge war over a patch of desert. can we not all just acknowledge that cultures should not mix? it clearly doesn't work. we've gotten away with it for a while in the west because of the excess money still lying around from imperialism but we can see huge cracks forming now as things get worse. how can we in the UK possibly live with several million people who care far more about a country thousands of miles away? who are furious about a war against the people who we are funding!? when our cultures have completely different values and languages? It's so obvious it will end in more and more violence but nobody wants to admit it

[@1nfiniteSeek3r]

The prize for such a question is five years re-education.

[@brettbecomesautistic]

I would have liked Zizek to have called out the revolting anti-semitism of the questioner explicitly, instead of offering the truth as a counter argument (in my opinion). "The Jews are BEHIND..". I mean seriously?! He should have been expelled from the room for stating such poison.

[@amadeusakreveusmusic3356]

AIPAC Has supported both left and right candidates. And 97% of their candidates win. However these are zionists not just jews. Many of them are evangelicals.

[@tkhoueiry]

The cover image of the antisemitic Arab says a lot about you. Especially that the accent of the person asking is more Eastern European or Russian.

[@MacShnibbles]

How can an arab anti semite if they are semites themselves... You just a bot with no brain and not capable to speak for yourself..

[@internetdjon]

Is the complete interview with Zizek and Roesler from the Frankfurt Book Fair available online?

[@hussaindrees5781]

The question did have antisemitic connotations, but does that mean we should just dismiss it? Why is fear of antisemitism is so hyperfixated on? Even in the comments here, everyone just screams "antisemitism!" and insults, shouldn't you atleast consider it and if it really is just antisemitism it can be easily disproved because it's just built on blind hate or propaganda.

[@utility00]

Try saying "you are the puppet of the Arabs" or "you are the puppet of the blacks" or "you are the puppet of Muslims" and see what happens.

[@hussaindrees5781]

@@utility00 What's your point here?

[@Curtis006]

Zizek did consider it and answer it. The audience member clearly wasn’t interested in actually asking a question or hearing an answer, he just wanted to briefly stand on his soapbox and say “fuck all jews”. That’s why he rightfully ought to be dismissed; he’s not a serious person.

[@hussaindrees5781]

@Curtis006 I know and I agree with you, I'm just talking about the comments generally

[@MacShnibbles]

​@@utility00then how is that themselves can say they control hollywood but if other person say its "anti semitism". You just a brain dead zombie. When a group so tiny like is highly overrepresented in any influential field you should be allowed to ask some questions..

[@tazmanian787]

Lol he almost shat himself

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

How do you know this? Do you smell his ass?

[@mrbmbastic6655]

that thumbnail lmao

[@His-Soldier]

If you know who 'rich American left' is in the context he intimates, you know he answers the guy's question directly.

[@Dastompinata]

His implication is that there is no rich american left because there is barely an american left to begin with

[@His-Soldier]

@@Dastompinata so the left invented political correctness to stop the mobilisation of its own aims?! You are missing something here

[@victorhugoeh974]

If there's anyone else to blame for the conflict between arabs and israelí, that'd be the european potencies, particularly Great Britain.

[@dadiarfs8261]

Great answer

[@BlankRami]

What's funny is that both Arabs and Jews yelled at him. If you've triggered both sides, you are on the right side.

[@tmagic4781]

or you are flip flopping

[@Michedelic9]

Fence sitting and middle ground argument doesn't make you right. It is defined as the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites

[@Zoltan1251]

@@Michedelic9 but in this case it really is in the middle. I dont know how can you defend insane bombing campaign or insane Hamas massacre.

[@davidcherub4954]

What i watched now ?😂

[@drunkenbuddhalaughingmonke8550]

Okay guy's, call me stupid or whatever, i don't care. But every time I listen to Zizek talk, he brambles on about different points without really making a proper point. Can someone please simplify his answer so us 'uneducated folk' can understand his message.

[@voltydequa845]

Bluff as a pseudo-cognitive food for the conformists of the pseudo-left.

[@jmmh1313]

I am deep into zizek but he has done this time one thing he does often when extremely shocked. Instead of remaining speechless, he says whatever that passes through his mind as fast as possible while refusing to acknowledge reality around. The thing you can extract from here is not anything from his response really but the fact that he probably went to bed at night tortured by the realization that he had met a literal nazi.

[@LeafSouls]

no he makes no sense lol

[@roderbergis4038]

The point is: There is no jewish conspiracy. Capitalism brings groups of people in power independent of their ethnicity, thus the example of the cuban people. In fact it is right now the social democrats who are implementing some kind of 'counter-revolutionary' narrative by pushing 'woke' agenda.

[@BOO-ii3ni]

He is leftist but he is not woke

[@mirozkapeluszem]

I need a Zizek ASMR.

[@etsequentia6765]

Have a towel ready.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

The joke is on anyone asking asking for his "serious analysis" on anything.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Sod off

[@sacriptex5870]

haha someone had balls to ask a hard question, Zizek look stuned he cant answer ! he was expecting the bullshit questions as a fine educated man does

[@hazelwray4184]

'stuned' - He looked stunned, or stoned? Lol

[@piriczahid1654]

Respekt, its Truth

[@MrNiceHk]

Wise Words

[@Smudge4199]

Lmfao zizek sure knows how to complicate a pretty straight forward situation….

[@AmrYasser-s7b]

I Can't underthdant any of what he ith thaying

[@ErenYega747]

2:23 Lol bald guy eyebrow raise

[@pierer91]

That is one serious lisp

[@nielsteunis]

Rarely heard such naked antisemitism as I have heard in the critique of Zizek here.

[@tw3f4tes52]

That’s an awfully liberal use of the word “critique” lol

[@chashmal10]

Well, if we ever were to hear such, it of course is gonna come from a leftist or a Muslim. Lol.

[@nielsteunis]

😆@@tw3f4tes52

[@amalayum]

You mean such naked facts?

[@jjreddick377]

Far Left wing and fat right wing rhetoric towards the Jews has fused. It’s time to choose sides

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

Zizek was far too polite to this raging antisemite.