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I love how his nervous ticks do not substract to his image, but rather enhance the persona.

Respect for Zizek, he is one of the last truly free thinkers out there. He doesn't let left-wing and right-wing ideologists fool him. They want to put everyone in either of those categories, and they don't understand that politics is more complex than "us against them".

Well ain't that a hot title lol

The beginning sniff was actually the body of his speech

Zizk is so right about addressing the actual causes of the problem and the results of an inadequate response/solutions

9:37 Zizek: "ARE TWO SIDES OF EXACTLY THE SAME--- Me: "Coin" Zizek: "STRUGGLE!" me: "Struggle"

This guy is articulating issues that l've been struggling with for a while. He is able to expound on stuff that the average Joe can't find the words to express, including me. Just started listening to this dude and am so impressed .

Damn right he is! We should think about that before making over-generalised conclusions. If you don't agree with Israel 's politics does not mean that you are antisemitic. If you don't agree with immigration policy doesn't mean that you are a right wing supporter. Etc...

A free thinker & a genius. Very rare sort of person. His ticks could be a form of tourettes or just something he does to counter anxiety or whatever - like when people fiddle with their hands at interviews. That doesn't make him any less of a genius. A lot of super-geniuses are known to have been a bit 'weird'

0:00 Great start :)

The damage done to the environment right now is a major cause of social and political conflict in the Middle East.

Fantastic, I agree 100% with him.

Such a great thinker of our time!

I know for sure he'll say something about ideological hypocirsy of the EU.

This guy . The real thing.

And so on and so on.

this video started on a sniff!! brilliant

Start of the video - 'im approaching to the end' xd

Does anyone has the full video of this collab?

I love how the video started

That was literally about 1/64 of a second before his first sniffle.

What is the name of this lecture

It starts with the loudest snifffing

So, in conclusion: don't simply heal the wound; tackle the problem that causes the wound to appear as well

perpetually cold, perpetual cold

Good call starting the video at his snort.

why no link to the original content?

Postmodern Universalist

I myself am middle-eastern (Iranian) and sth that is surprisingly being ignored about middle-easterners (Especially with Arabs) is the fact that we ourselves are quite right leaning! There are Turkish gangsters in Germany who kill the Turks who married non-Turks and when asked why they killed their fellow Turk, they usually say things like "Because we shall protect our kin". They famously refuse to assimilate into Germany's culture by choice! Of course not all Turks.. I am not for racism. Even middle-easterners cringe at this term "Islamophobia". I think Muslim-phobia is more of a problem. How the hell is this region supposed to progress when we can't even criticize Muslims OUTSIDE the middle-east? Of course we should accept and respect them as a part of society but acceptance and respect makes sense when it goes both ways. Go to the most Islamic country where this religion came from (Saudi Arabia) that has been isolated and untouched for the most part. Ask them about gender segregation and the LGBT stuff then you see how Arab culture is narrow and close minded for the most part and you keep selling them weapons! They are one of the obvious root of the problem but there is more sanctions on the average Iranian who is more open-minded than the average Saudi Arabian who supports their murderous regime. At least in Iran we are shouting that we are not his barbaric regime. This forced integration is NOT an answer. Especially this image of all middle-easterners being easily offended Muslims who we should avoid offending and only react to when they go ISIS mode. I honestly don't know whose side to take ....

9:52 Pretty true

At 6.50, he's right it was over 1,000, in total it was almost 19,000 including sexual assaults in Rotherham in 1 year alone. 1,000 in Cologne on New Years eve 2016

Walls work, not physical ones, but ideological

S N I F F, I'm first ! And so on S N I F F and so on...

If walls didn’t work, then why didn’t Germany leave the Berlin Wall standing? If it had no purpose or significance they could have left it.

He said Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Madagascar are Arab countries. This is pretty bad.

He is right

This man is so fucking based

It's so atrocious. Why can't they fix their own country. Instead you take from those citizens who did the "right" suffering and tears over generations. It's our own government who did this to America. They have slavery and native atrocities that haven't been resolved. How do genocides happen? When a population of people are assumed to take from the people of that country/states' members.

Depressing that this view has basically no traction in political discourse 2 years after this was posted.

The Radical Revolution: "Stop memeing about Zizek and comment on his message instead." Also The Radical Revolution: **starts videos with some massive sniffs**

Zizek is only partly right. Many so called refugees come from places or nations that are relatively speaking just doing fine. Some of those places are even tourist destinations (from Morocco and Egypt to India). But even when it's true, most of the time there doesn't exist an individual reason to seek asylum in the West. It's clearly defined international who has the right for asylum and who not, the problem is that the system gets thwarted by moronic activists, ideologues, and those who benefit personally from an influx of refugees. And of course, by those who actually want mass migration into the West... Google: "BBC EU should undermine national homogeneity says UN migration chief"

I disagree with communism but this guy is spot on on this issue

He nose you know

Press "0" for instant Slavoj Zizek sniffing ASMR

I'm not sure about european politics but most fellow right wing populist and conservative socialist like myself have no issue with helping immigrants my argument against immigration is that mass migration will create more racial discrimination, displace workers, and large carbon pollution but I do agree with Zizek we have to solve the issues that created refugees and mass migration but I would solve those issues while also making laws limiting the amount of immigrants we bring in the left needs to talk about these issues and make compromises with the right or they will just allow the far-right to have unlimited ammunition against leftism in America the left is practically dead most "leftist" are in support of Biden who is a right wing warmonger

i have this problem when listening to Zizek where I cannot focus on the context of his speach simply because he is too animated

still got that runny nose problem. surely there are simple remedies around.

Slavoj *sniff* Zizek and so on and so on...

2 ways to deal with this situation. 1) Europe and America must close their borders. 2) We must agitate for open borders for Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Japan, China and South Korea.

In my nation, we mostly despise left wingers because of their wokeism and pc culture, but holy shit this guy is amazing.

So how do you adress this problem? Zizek doesnt say, he only says it needs to be openly discussed, but you can infer he believes in the superiority of leftist values over traditional muslim values which would mean in a possible future a common ground between leftist and conservative positions and a governmental crackdown on traditional muslim culture. Thats a pretty bad look in itself because this could be construed as white supremacy and will surely trigger anti-colonial sentiment from migrant communities, but it gets even more controversial because some rightwingers apparently agree with the muslim position on the denial of gay rights, womens rights etc., how do you form a coalition then?

Man if he would just get his septum fixed

Flüchtlinge =German for refugee

This philosopher is better read than listen to. No doubt, very intelligent, but now, I have this tick and nervous, and I have a headache.

corona at work

uhmmm yeah populism in 20 y .... but more Islamic populism ... like libanon

An ounce of cocaine was gone before Slavoj started with the interview

Is not Zion/Q/Xi the same triangle?

You need to check out the PLP. The Progressive Labor Party founded in 1964 just before the great Harlem Rebelion in 1964. It is international with sections in the US, Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia, Africa, Asia , and close friends in Europe. We reject socialism. While the Russian and Chinese Revolutions made great contributions to our history, they ultimately failed due to corruption in the model of socialism which maintains the capitalist monetary system and for their concessions to nationalism and failure to learn from these strategic weaknesses. We believe in egalitarian communism from day one. No privilege and no wage labor. We have had a proud history in the workplace and in the the fight against racism and racist police terror for over 50 years. See our web site at www.plp.org. See our You Tube videon Corona: Capitalism is the virus, Communism is the Cure. The channel is PLP Challenge. We have our party in Palestine-Israel with both Palestinian and Jewish members. See www.plp.org .

Eritrya Ethiopia and madagascar are not arab countries.

Sure, it is true that conservatives themselves don't believe in the strength of their societies maintaining their own culture due to the fear of mass migration, but it's nonetheless logical. If we would like to "conserve" the Amazon rainforest, we can project our trust in the ecosystem's ability to equilibrate after some time when another species is introduced, but when we constantly input new species, radically change the habitats, and use up the resources to help more input regardless if they're beneficial to the rest of the biosphere or not, because of "goodwill" then there won't be breathing time to equilibrate, there will be no benefits to go there in the first place, there will be no amazon, and all of that "pride" will count for nothing. It's absurd to replace species in the rainforest to "revitalise" the community, yet not even trying to solve the causes for the problems in these communities in the first place. We should welcome new species as long as they find their place definitely, but not to completely change the rainforest to suit them to the point of being unrecognisable.

I'm suprirsed Sweden didnt trun out more racist.

stooooooooop it with your noise HS

I wonder how much coke he snorts. Does he have a secret tube in his finger?

the fuck is he talking about

I traveled in a refugee bus from a journey from Netherland to Sweden at the big refugee crisis in 2016. The german police borders were extremely hard and arrogant towards the refugees in the bus. And this was at the time when Angela Merkel was regarded as the angel in this time. That´s why I don´t fully buys Zizek´s view about this things.

Correction, YES there are Syrian refugees in my country, Saudi Arabia. They're provided proper shelter instead of tents.

Right, walls don't work. I am sure he sleeps keeping his door open at night.

Those bite-sized videos always attract stupid commentators.

So what he’s saying is that leftism and nationalism is 2 sides of the same coin. Only leftism believes there’s a class division between rich and poor while nationalism believes there is a racial struggle but they are nonetheless the same only in different terms?

I was today years old when I learned that ethopia, eritrea, and madagascar were arab countries

It's a nice notion, and probably a better idea over all, to try to help people in their own country instead of simply letting them come to ours, but I'm going to throw out a controversial opinion here: What if the reason the countries these people live in are awful is because the people are not capable of running a country successfully due to hereditary issues of intelligence? A country is more than its laws, a country is its people- People are inherently unequal, and therefore so must countries be.

He is just filosofer... he doesn't need to take this migrant in his house... 2nd problem of his filosofy is he doesn't has a clue what islam is...if he does for him wouldn't be strange that Katar does not allow migrant ... For him would be recomendet to start study political islam... islam is not religion but political doctrin... I wote for Israel... arabs always find the way to destroy evety opportunity for peace in Gaza.... because islamic doctrins demand not to make a peace with jews from begining...his illusion on that subject proves that h has no clue about this problem... but as usual his argiment is his philosofical agenda...😁🥴🤥

"Walls don't work" Yes Slavoj they do work, look at Israel. "Of course we should help them" How many of them? all of them? All that want to come to Europe? They all want to come. "What I don't understand is..." What you don't understand, among several other things, is that if a horde of migrants come to Slovenja, they will not be settling near your cozy, modern apartment in center Ljubiana, they'll be settled near some social blocks of apartments with parents who have 16, 17, 18, y.o. daughters who want to wear short skirts and come home when it's dark among other things, and those people come from Muslim societies which have a different perception of how women should behave in society.

"Poor Arab countries" *Proceeds to name non-Arab countries* "Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar and so on." Yup he doesn't know shit, just talking out of his ass. A thinker would investigate properly before drawing conclusions. Or else he's no different than a layman on the street giving his ignorant/misinformed opinion. Except this is more dangerous. I'm not racist but I'm as informed as they the next racist, however, my opinion is considered enlightened and nuanced.

But anti semitic means being against a person that speaks a semitic language. There are a number of semitic languages, so who are you supposed to be against? And why? Who invented the word anti semitism? When was it invented and why was there a need for that word? Who financed Theodor Herzl, for example...

Man as a German conservative i Think he is really dishonest here. He does the same thing everybody in Germany does and Starts by saying he isnt for the left or right wing so he cant be criticised and identified as somebody that might be an evil conservative. But his points on refugees were actually EXACT the points of Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) AND other conservatives around this topic. Yet he distances himself by extremely simplifying the conservative stance to Trumps "Wall Game" or "they are Bad versus we are good" mentality. This is so dishonest and such a cheap behaviour while you actually agree with the conservative side, just admit they got a point when you already use THEIR arguments, zizek!

I know i am gonna get downvoted but the only real solution is to reduce world population belove 1.5 billion and lower our calories intake by at least 2000. Sorry for bursting your bubble guys.The future is not gonna be Star trek. At best i will be Elysium. At worst Mad Max.

Zizek making no sense

Walls do work. In fact, they work very well with machine-gun towers.

A fully Neurotic gibbering mess. He's now reduced to KZfaq videos when once he was so eminent, or so I heard. He give me the achoo, without the Ahh ! Hit the like , subscribe, and don't forget to donate. The new political face of KZfaq is hear.....

Zizek is only partly right. Many so called refugees come from places or nations that are relatively speaking just doing fine. Some of those places are even tourist destinations (from Morocco and Egypt to India). But even when it's true, most of the time there doesn't exist an individual reason to seek asylum in the West. It's clear defined international who has the right for asylum and who not, the problem is that the system gets thwarted by moronic activists, ideologues, and those who benefit personally from an influx of refugees. And of course by those who actually want mass migration into the West... Google: "BBC EU should undermine national homogeneity says UN migration chief"