I totally agree, the stress to be in a position of having to self-explain yourself in order to clarify people's minds is, not only once but many times. Might the capacity for people to underdtand complex arguments is going down over the time? I don't understand, he is clear but some still don't get it. Or maybe some personal ideals are to intensified in these times that rationalisation is not an option anymore for them. At least I hope things will calm down for Zizek. But for israel and palestine, there's still a long season, sad but true.

This is the price you have to pay for being a centrist

No one attacked him, he is exagerating.

@@hisdudeness690 He is not centrist, marx doesnt allow this stance.

Hahahah

And that is why I love him😂

Because he does not think before talking. English is his second language. He needs to think well before opening his mouth and speak slower. He also uses a lot of vulgar language. I have seen all his U Tube videos. An hour of his talks can be summarized into one biased sentence.

​@@fatemehm2949you are a fool

@@fatemehm2949 Such a great linguistical and psychological analysis! It is like you went into his mind and figured how it works! And you know how to summarize full speeches into one sentence as well! I heard they call that a "title" or something. By the way, did anyone ever tell you you are entitled?

Emphathizing is inherent to humans, it takes a lot of effort (miseducation, misinformation, propaganda...) to make someone feel comfortable with dehumanizing the "other" to the point where the distinction between combattants and civilians becomes not blurred, but practically erased!

@@dayegilharno4988 I am afraid it is the other way around. Although we, as species, are not incapable of altruism and empathy (thank heavens!), committing evil acts is far more prosaic than good actis. Evil does not require the organisation of energies and that of moral and critical resources the good does. In fact evil revels in the pleasures of unorganised energies, visceral and illiterate drives (and their immediate satisfaction). Recognition of the claims of the other as equally human is an act of a critical and courageous intellect and heart - and it presupposes a world where such are still a faint possibility. Propaganda and misinformation are so successful in spreading (like bushfire) hate and lies because what they spread clicks with uncritical, thoughtlessly reacting to immediate impressions beings in a world that is bent on destroying even the remotest possibility of the good. Our dark times are becoming darker and darker faster than before.

@@allegory6393 Hmm... Had to look up "prosaic", just to make sure. Interesting choice of words, from my limited perspective. I just "know" that I am acting from outside of my, let's say: "spiritual" center when I am acting egoistically, even before the fact and still without being able to influence the decision consciously. In contrast to acting altruistically (at least within the limits of my understanding after the fact), when I feel right at home with the decision but get the impact of people disagreeing with me and struggling to "keep the faith". There seems to be a divide between knowing what is the right thing to do and actually deciding to do the right thing... I feel like the "Recognition of the claims of the other as equally human..." comes more easily to me than denying that shared humanity. At the same time I face the reality of being a terrible human being, considering my actions, words and thoughts over the past 50+ years - WHEN I make an effort to stop gaslighting myself. I believe that the term "unorganized" is rather fitting: Free of moral judgements, it describes a state of mind that is counterproductive to everything I hold dear, on a totally subjective level. There is no order and no morals outside of what we want this universe to be. That is Nihilism at its best interpretation!

That makes us two. Much more clear thinking than most of our politicians here.

He doesnt understand arabic mentality. Beware of accepting his opinions.

Also he wants to keep jews in europe so he can profit of their intellect while they suffer from antisemitism. Fuck that.

Of course you do, he opens his speech about how any form of Palestinian resistence is wrong and bad, and whitewashes everything a criminal apartheid state does. He is not only a coward, he is also very wrong.

@@PureJoy_ The zionist mentality is a barabaric murderous one, and he keeps white washing it. They are literally committing genocide and Gaza and this guy is playing the "both guys bad" card lol.

Jews lived on that land very long before the Syrians (calling themselves 'Palestinians' nowadays) occupied that land. It is Jewish land - it always was and always will be. However, Ham@s' current slaughter of Jews/Israelis has nothing to do with any territorial dispute.

You can say that the world is unfair, but that isn’t really how you produce peace. Israel will probably exist for the foreseeable future, they have nuclear weapons. If people really want peace, they should accept that Israel will exist, anything else is perpetual war.

How does the fact that peace=compromise validate Zizek’s thoughts?

@@Aisatsana1971 because compromising is what neither side wants to do in a war. They always want a total win

@@janekmundt579 how does that validate Zizeks thoughts?

@@Aisatsana1971 it means his proposals might actually work

The inference of the conclusion doesn’t follow. Not valid.

@@Aisatsana1971 'perhaps'

@@liborsionko “inference”

@@Aisatsana1971 There is no inference - it's explicit.

@@liborsionko there is an inference- or else it doesn’t make sense to make such a vacuous, empty “explicit” statement.

This is true. Unfortunately, if Musk's recent behavior is any indication, he's gonna name his rocket "Adolf".

​@@pokerandphilosophy8328recent behaviour? For example?

@@enterpassword3313 White supremacist rhetoric, specifically pushing the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and sharing public agreement with the jewish question. It's not a secret, major advertisers just pulled their ads off twitter for exactly that reason.

Yugoslav is not a nationality.

Hamas actually agreed for 1967 borders . A lot of you uneducated people are just mumbling

They had a discussion on nature a few years ago

We all support the Western way because it is pure truth!

cista istina, svi mi....hmmm....tako je, a ipak ce nam zakucati na na vrata neka druga istina. bez sarkazma, koliko god tona filozofije prosuli, prosto je, ako ne osudimo zlocin nametnuce se pravda a nosice je ljudi koji ce preuzeti svet, donece svoju filozofiju i ona ce biti primitivizam... mada u primitivizmu leži plotnost pa tako i treba izgleda@@annap.974

@@annap.974😣😖🤢🤮

@@scoobydoo936 You seem to have some serious issues.

Drži se onda tvog "filozofa', Šešelja

Invalid conclusion.

Why not include the numerous wars Arabs waged against Israel so that they could destroy them? Why not include the numerous peaceful resolutions and treaties that were declined by the Palestinians? Israel’s regime is horribly cruel and criminal, but history should not forget how bloodthirsty the Palestinians were too. They are equally responsible for their current situation.

If you think this is about „land“ u must’ve drank all the cool-aid there is and even said „thank you“

What open air prison funds its inmates for years to build any kind of weapons and tunnels? And Israel is not an apartheid state, this is the crazy propaganda you have been exposed by the left for reasons you don’t even know. The only point where you are right is the settlers in west bank

The "apartheid" branding of Israel really stuck, but it doesn't mean it is the truth, just that if you say something enough times, it enters people's perception. Do you even know what apartheid means?

@@user-wn1qp2mw6w The entire premise of the Apartheid state is due to the Zionist regime’s desires to remain the demographic majority and power. Otherwise the idea of it being a Jewish state will be challenged. Therefore, they treat Arabs differently in different parts of the OPT and Israel depending on their location and particular concerns. Fundamentally they are treated differently from Israeli Jews. The rights of Arabs/Palestinians rank in the following hierarchy: Israeli National>West Bank> East Jerusalem> Gaza > Exile/diaspora. You can mover down (or to the right) of the hierarchy, but each step will limit your rights, and you can’t move up the hierarchy (to the left). A Jewish Israeli however, can move between this hierarchy as they please, while having more and full rights at all stages, and always more than any Arab at any one spot. Again, they are treated differently from Israeli Jews. In the West Bank for example, Palestinians are subject to a military occupation administration even when they are not in Israel proper (remember Israel doesnt recognize the two state solution or Palestinian sovereignty). Israeli settlers in the West bank are subject to civil courts where as the Palestinians are subject to Israeli military courts, which give unreasonably high conviction rates, sometimes long periods of confinement without even representation, make arrest of minors and can include torture. Why are Israeli settlers treated differently than to Palestinians in the WB? Israel applies different systems of governance and courts on both groups in the WB extraterritorially and unequally. For example a settler committing a crime goes to an Israeli civil court, whereas a Palestinian goes to a military court, often witheld without trail for ling periods of time, in a hearing that has always been condemned as unfair when compared to international standards of fair trails. Why does Military Order 101 Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions punish and criminalizes Palestinians for attending and organizing an assembly of 10 or more people without a permit for an issue that “may be construed as political”. And then why does it not define what is meant by “political”, effectively banning protests, including peaceful protests, while stipulating up to 10 years’ imprisonment and/or hefty fines for anyone breaching it? Why is a Palestinian’s ability to build homes and move within the west bank restricted and why is the human registry restricted by an Israeli Military administration if they are not Israeli citizens? Why are there tens of thousands of palestinians married to foreign nationals, who cant bring their nationals over because Israels Military administration blocks adding these individuals to the registries, effectively closing them out to immigration to their spouses? Clearly they are subjected to forms of subjugation and domination even when they are not Israeli citizens, and not in Israel proper, because they are Arab and thats the definition of Apartheid. Remember, under the Rome Statute, the crime against humanity of apartheid means inhumane acts committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups. And how about the discriminatory zoning laws for Israeli Arabs? Why are refugees not allowed to return to their homes in Israel if all Jews world wide can “the law of return”? Why, according to a 2016 analysis by Mossawa Center of the Israeli Ministry of Educations, do Israeli Arabs get a third of the funding per capita for education and other social welfare programs than their Jewish Israeli counterparts? Why is it so difficult to get building permits for Arab Israelis too? Arab Israelis don’t need to join the army, but miss out on social benefits that come with it, which is fair - but why are the ultra orthodox who also dint join the army granted access to those services? Why are 75% of Gazans registered as non Gazan refugees in the UN Relief? Why are they restricted from using 35% of their agricultural land, 85% of the sea and 100% of the sky by the Israeli occupation? Why is it only that the Eastern Jerusalem Palestinians the ones who are revoked of their ID cards retroactively, if they cannot prove that Jerusalem is their “center of life”? Why does this jot happen to Israeli Jews? There are mannnyyyyy more points that make Israel an Apartheid state, but above are a few. Its so overwhelming and multilayered the best thing you should do to read about it. Have you read any of the reports? If you have I doubt you would be doubting the conclusion. You can go read any of the following: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, The UN Special Rappetoires, B’Tselem, the ESCWA report, Yesh Din, the International Federation if Human Rights. Pick and choose there are plenty more.

It's the culture wars finally finding 2 polar opposite opinions that are both equally indefensible

that's bullshit centrism. i think slavoj receives far more critique from zionists and was just making a point about his caution getting talked shit on

And you think yours does?

Ergo even the colonial britain could have anticipated that there would be resistance against their policy (balfour declaration). This means that all sides knew that there would be resistance but didnt care..

I read the Talmud you can’t fool us

Palestinians want a state , they are christian and muslim and durz palestinians ... They used to be jewish palestinians ....

Most overrated intellectual out there.

Yes, and you can turn to your blubbering Cheeto, who is about to go to prison, for his expert opinion.

I couln't agree more.

Sure it is not about land. It’s about the suffering that land theft has induced.

​@@ziyaddossri1821Syrians (calling themselves 'Palestinians' today) occupied the land that Jews lived in since forever. It is Jewish land and always will be. Free Israel from arab occupation NOW! ❤ And yes, Ham@s' current slaughter of Jews/Israelis has nothing to do with a territorial dispute.

Just that he’s not wrong. Both sides attacked him because he criticised them both and they are both obsessed with the myths of absolute justice and divine retribution which any child could tell them are neither of them viable or reliable strategies.

@@jameslittlewood7821 that's first grader level oversimplification by you. reconsider you pos

Ludvig you have to watch more than 4 minutes before you can make that assumption.

Not to worry! It's not genocide. Just that if there's war, the Quran permits Muslims to take prisoners of war, and subsequently use the women as sex slaves, ransom or execute the men and convert the children. But no worries! It's not genocide. And even if you're taken as a prisoner of war, you will still be fed, clothed, etc. too bad you have to be a slave though! Now let's imagine if Israel followed this logic. Doesn't paint a pretty picture does it?

being brought up in a strictly Islamic household I can confirm that this is most certainly not an Islamic desire, inter faith marriage between Christians , Jews and Muslim is permitted in the quran and there are historic examples of this.

Any how ,did any of you see the church that was bombed in. Gaza by the idf

Islamophobic

there are jews that been harassed in the west bank because they want free palestaine. its a conflict of ethnicity not religion.

he is a closeted white supremacist. This is a dose of islamophobia mixed with ego. He is not an israel supporter.

Translation: “Slavoj, I don’t understand you, stop stuttering and saying complicated things so I and others can understand you and make you more popular.”

Slavoj not Savoj, Savoj is a type of cabbage.

@@nandanugent well he shouldnt call himself cabbage

Ad hominem much? Sorry, for your benefit: “Ad hominem” much?

Tell me you struggled with your GCSE's without telling me you struggled with your GCSE's.

And you are ?! 🤣

Get he hell out of Here protect ZIZEK AT ALL COSTS 🫡 a True gem in our modern world

He knows much more than you for sure

Lol You are so fixated on Zizek's involuntary nervous ticks that it's clear you know nothing about him

Bro don’t let your ablist bigotry get in your way sure your opinion really adds something here *sniff* *sniff* ugh who did that