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Russel's avatar

What’s wrong with zizek?

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yeah, i argued that same point, but good luck with that. Just how would Matt lock horns with Zizek? - it would be even more pathetic than with Marcuse. Perhaps he should critique Poincare or Heisenberg next, he wouldn't want to drink a beer with them either.

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Absolutely right. But people here are convinced that the college brat is the real threat to America and that cancel culture is only on the left, nevermind that supporting BDS is being outlawed in many states. Perhaps the most conspicuous example of free speech being eroded and not by the left.

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No shit. Cancel culture, from what I've learned of it, is sort of comically over correct, but it seems less dogmatic, threatening or closed minded than "Love it or leave it" or "So many Hippies so few hand grenades" signs the now anti war right wing used to display at anti war rallies I would attend(and kept doing in the Obama years, something my establishment liberal friends ceased to do) from the early Bush years. Seemingly, we're not supposed to remember those days, or how pro war these people were back in the day. Apparently, wars only become questionable when the right wing belatedly recognizes their pointlessness.

Beyond that, I distinctly remember those on the right correctly pointing out that the 1st Amendment only applied to government not being allowed to restrict free speech. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, and big Media has merged with the corporate Dems(at least for now, and that alliance will surely shift at some point), the problem becomes one needing resolution, with which I agree.

The public is not only comically partisan over two worthless parties who expertly stoke cultural differences to mask their obeisance to their big money masters, which intersect in many places, but also remarkably overly sensitive to any slight or diminishing their right to be heard on one social outlet or another. I was unsubscribed from Google months and haven't missed making comments there, as typically one encounters people whose minds are more closed than Rachel Maddow's legs or Lindsey Graham's zipper at a heterosexual orgy.

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