Slavoj Zizek — Why white liberals like to humiliate themselves

[iwouldprefernotto]

If you want to get Zizek's 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt you can do so here:

[scooterbaby]

This man is an inspiration to anyone who struggles with anxiety regarding public speaking. Willing to push through severe ticks while speaking a foreign language to speak his truth. We gotta put ourselves out there.

[anevliona]

"Every culture has dead bodies in its closet'
- Slavoj Zizek

[jamesflames]

Slavoj Zizek, best known as the voice actor for the spider in Minecraft.

[phoenix]

“Every culture is horrible.” - Slavoj Zizek

[l.w.paradis]

"Every culture is horrible in its own way." I love you forever for that, M. Zizek.

[orbazel]

I’ve plenty of experience of cokeheads pretending to be intellectual but the other way round is more entertaining.

[MediaFilter]

It's a form of absolute moral superiority, they martyr themselves and expect you to acknowledge them as miniature messiahs.

[coldpopcast]

This is the weirdest ASMR video I've seen

[ccl]

"But, this gives them a tremendous" [...] "privilege" [...] "As such, as nobodies, they think they have a monopoly on judging the others." WOW. He said it perfectly.

[tntmartin]

WHO: "Avoid Touching Your Face during the pandemic"

Slavoj Zizek: "Hold my beer! "

[geronico]

i like this man cause he isnt handsome, has so many ticks, bad dressed, bad english, but he doesn't give a f*** and is full of confidence

[VotEtoPizdets]

His ticks are getting much worse with age. I hope his health does not begin to decline rapidly. I may disagree with many of his stances but he is a brilliant mind and the world is a better place because of his existence.

[zaprising]

Slavoj Zizek: *spent thousands upon thousands of hours working hard as an academic, to spread his message*

Everyone: lol funni voice man haha

[iiii]

i really dont think i will ever reach a point where i get sick of zizek telling that joke.

[kukalakana]

I have heard an indigenous American speaker call this phenomenon "permission to be evil." Not allowing yourself to do bad shit and get away with it, but to acknowledge that they are as capable of human vice as everyone else.

[kojak]

Polish regiment sent by Napoleon in 1802 to suppress the Haitian uprising of slaves, quickly realized the actual situation, changed sides and joined Haitians against the French Army. Dessalines - the leader of the revolt and then the first monarch of independent Haiti, called Poles "the White Negroes of Europe" as a brotherly term of solidarity. The surviving Polish soldiers often stayed in the country. The center of Polish Haitian diaspora is in town of Cazale, otherwise known as "La Pologne".

[JSVRBATXSH]

As a german its so desorienting when he just casually slips a german word in like "Vereinigte Staaten". I always pause and check if i understood right

[barrysteven]

This is fascinating. I recently saw a post by a western European pointing out that all the evils, which befall the Middle East are down to the evil West and its history of interference and their empires etc (they rarely mention the Ottoman Empire for obvious reasons) and this was why there was Islamic terrorism. I wrote back pointing out that Arabs also had a history of conquest and empires, that Arab leaders were complicit with France and Britain carving up the Middle East into countries, that the worst oppressors of Arabs were still their own rulers and that most of the victims of Islamic terrorists were other Muslims so making excuses for them was pretty hateful to Muslims. He thought I was a raving rightwing nutcase. I'm not. I'm actually a leftie but I hate bullshitters.

[pissoff]

Host : Debate start
Zizek *sniff*
Audience : LEGEND