[lbo-talk] umbrellas and hasidism

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 31 10:43:24 PDT 2009


At 10:09 AM 3/31/2009, Campaign for Peace and Democracy wrote:


>Well, I think they might not mind, if the
>question were asked in a friendly spirit.

That kind of question is always asked in a friendly spirit, which is even more to shag's point that "the first rule of anti-oppression work" is not doing it.

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I think here we had enough of this multicultural ideology, which for me at least is often an inverted racism – namely for example when people come here – typically multiculturalists would say: “Oh I want to understand how you are different.” No, what you should understand is that fundamentally they are not different here – just different things happened to them.... I think we should totally object to this liberal blackmail; we should understand each other – no the world is too complex we can not – I hate people, I don't want to understand people. I want to have a certain code where I don’t understand your way of life and you don't understand mine but we still can coexist.

Slavoj Zizek in a recent interview, where he also calls himself "an old-fashioned Marxist."

http://www.euronews.net/2008/09/12/euronews-talks-films-and-balkans-with-slavoj-zizek/



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