Zizek on Haider

[Carl Remick]

>Finally, Ken McK's point is exactly right - the more Haider is
>denounced from on high, the more popular he will get with his base.
>That's a psycho-political fact. Creeps like Duke, Metzger, and
>Farrakhan enjoy the same legitimation process. How do you fight that?
>I think Ken's onto something - with mockery, not moralism.
>
>Doug

Er, wasn't mockery -- a prime example being Chaplin's (especially untimely) 
_The Great Dictator_ -- exactly how the world tried to defuse the threat of 
Mussolini and Hitler?  The beta version of this approach doesn't seem to 
have been a big success.

Carl

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