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

[haraldisdead]

Zizek always sounds like he's mocking Zizek.

[PakistanIcecream]

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.

[rederickfroders]

Guy asks a question and then doesnt want his answer

[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

[K]

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.

[saifalwawi]

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.

[TheDonteventalktome]

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

[renkuro]

Zizeks patience and poise is unbreakable i swear

[rubentorregrosa]

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.

[filipmujic]

Christoph Waltz will play the best Slavoj Zizek some day

[MrMilkymilk]

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.

[dorfmanjones]

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

[roderbergis]

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

[MxLee]

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.

[boneybone]

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

[p.trrr]

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

[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.

[gigatremor]

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".

[younoskahn]

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

[biaispravda]

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