Mehdi Hassan did his job as a journalist by calling out Zizek's hypocrisy. It wasn't difficult since Zizek had no argument to begin with. Zizek's position is that of an anarchist with no personal ramifications.

@gibran Khan Please, save your yelling for the Trump supporters, some on the left want serious self-reflection regarding what happened. This debate was not set up to expose the right viewpoint, but so that he could yell over Zizek..

jacobthelioneater Its called journalism. Mehdi asked Zizek pointed questions for which he had no answers. This is not Mehdi's fault. If you feel Mehdi should have given Zizek stone massage then you are free to watch RT propaganda. As for me, I'm evaluating arguments purely. I never mentioned Trump.

Gibran Khan You didn't mention Trump but perhaps you should have considering this is a video about Trump and Mehdi starts the "debate" by asking if Slavoj feels guilty because Trump is so bad. Every time Zizek gets to elaborating, Mehdi raises his voice and reiterates his point. It really is tiring to watch. How can I learn what Zizek says if Mehdi interrupts him before he gets anywhere? This is exactly the same kind of Bill O'Riley-esque mock debate where he yells more loudly and interrupts frequently. This is not the free exchange of ideas. Was there even a single time where Zizek was allowed to finish before interruption? It is also ironic to accuse him of hypocrisy consider the left was selling hypocrisy this year. Wall Street-Backed Hillary is not a leftist in any traditional sense. They simply relied on Trump being so bad that liberals would vote out of fear. I voted Hillary too, but I do not pretend there is no rational reason for not doing so. Perhaps hearing a liberal explain why he would've voted for Trump is what the left needs to stop painting the opposition as 100% racist sexist and evil?

jacobthelioneater Zizek had plenty of time to respond however when he tried to evade the questions, Mehdi held his feet to the fire. I am tired of watching journalists ask soft ball questions, allowing politicians and opinion makers to just ramble on while evading questions. I consider that an insult to my intelligence. Again, not sure why you're selling me on Hillary or Trump, I'm not arguing for either.

Zizek could probably spew more platitudes and non-answers. Go learn what real journalism is.

i got owned on the internet by Francisco Sousa. let everybody see this display of defeat. where should I learn what real journalism is, since you're so smart and well acquainted with the subject? Or will you attack me again for my "ignorant" opinion?

Don't know how old you are, I guess old enough to change your Party affiliation. It was all a dog and pony show. How can you remain a member when it was all so rigged for Hillary?

Allahu Akbar

Its his job to stop the guest from bullshiting.

@@joeyb3318 his job to bullshit instead of the guest you mean?

@@joeyb3318 Fight bullshit with bullshit?

Small ears it's like he is a copy cat of O'Reilly

he is, what's the point of having someone like Zizek on the show only to take the opportunity to shoot him down as much as you can, that's not journalism that's playground banter. Bring Sami Zeiden or kamahl santamaria on the show.

You guys just don't know what you're talking about. If you guys don't know what serious journalism is then stop pretending. Have you ever debated someone in real life? Like, outside your bedroom/basement? Only point Zizek (poorly) made was about "Trump shaking up the system", which he's got no evidence to back up which made Mehdi's job very difficult.

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Clearly this was an attempt from the liberal right to "debunk" or give a bad name through a bad interview to Zizek who lately has been getting a lot of attention putting them on their place.

True. He's being so asinine.

Kai McKenzie the host is amazing because he always challenges, and gets the best out of his guests

game300 He cuts the guest off, purposefully misinterprets what he says and shows an overt bias against Trump which prevents anyone saying anything good about his presidency.

People just now heard of adversarial journalism, it seems. To debate a topic, both positions have to be clear. Zizek for the life of him can't make his so.

Francisco Sousa Zizek is pretty clear. The host consistently misinterprets him

But you don't even know what professionalism is because you've never had a steady job.

omg if you have time to reply every comment ... I'm sure you do have an important job lol

Please, attend yourself to make-up tutorials, Paula.

Francisco Sousa hahahhahaha

It's good to see you care about the health of your face since your brain unfortunately isn't working properly.

Don L I can't bear it. I haven't heard one, of slavs thoughts to the end. Medhi is getting more and more rude and ignorant because he has an axe to grind. I'm done watching him.

He's trying to understand zizek's bogus position. Go back to fox news.

Francisco Sousa No, he's using pretty much the same tactics that got Trump elected: Ignore the argument and go for the balls. That's what the media don't seem to understand - Trump's bigotry is simply the polar opposite of their own. That"s why it appeals to those who've grown sick of the status quo.

Lord. This horrendous rhetoric is everywhere. Sir, please try and make your own arguments, for your cognition's sake. If you don't think for yourself, soon your synapses will atrofiate by reading these pseudo-intelectual blogs and going over the internet regurgitanting this out-of-reality discourse. You wouldn't say anything you just did had you watched the video attentively. I sure hope you just use this insane arguments on the internet. In the real world, you'd sound mentally ill saying that with a straight face.

Tom Bayley lots of "cut offs" distractions and redirect. It's a cheap nasty tactic that Medhi has adopted. He should be ashamed of himself. I wonder how many pieces of silver he is taking, to stir up the flames.

I'm sure he's devastated.

I'm surprised you had any in the first place. He's a very simple man, and clearly not well read except the latest headlines.

You haven't seen the show before, have you?

Look how clueless you are. Your comment didn’t age well huh?

The host was perfect for a guy like Zizek, I like Slavoj too but he needs people to put him in his place to make him more productive and think harder

He’s incapable of asking a question and listening to a response that falls outside the paradigm he subscribes to.

The questions are clearly needed to understand Zizek's point before going further in the discussion. How does one not get that?

@@chicox3me not at all, it's a way to straw man his argument instead of listening to what his train of thought actually is.

he has manners ...arab manners

Its called cutting of bullshit

​@lilwondair4836 he is not arab you racist. That is your manner.....

How does it feel to be exempt from the people suffering under this administration? Enjoying the freak show?

Push back from the interviewer needed to be done here. Watch now in 2121 and you will see the idea that Trump will make anything better was short sited at best. Freak show is mild in comparison.

Your comment didn’t age well.

@@Bmmhable How does it feel to be exempt from the greater suffering that occurs when either party is in charge? Both parties bomb Yemen, both parties drone Somalia, both parties parties drone Syria. Pardon me for not getting excited about your student loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients despite this though.

You haven't seen the show before have you?

Or polite, productive, intelligent, there are no positive qualities to repeatingly talking over your own guests.

The lack of substance from someone who considers himself a philosopher is disconcerting.

No, It's Colombia

He did his job as a journalist. Amazing, I know.

@@gibrankhan2174 The job of the journalist is to interview people, not interrogate them.

@@gustofzephyr947 The job of a journalist is ask hard question which is what Mehdi did. You can go watch Zizek's talk if you want soft ball questions thrown at him; plenty of that content on KZfaq.

@@gibrankhan2174 maybe he should let zizek finish what he is saying

@@Max-ek3kf Man this wasn't a lecture that Zizek was invited to where he can speak for 2 hours.

Pieter Maas I think Zizek was saying that Trump would disrupt the political establishment by galvanising the left to rally against him and become more vocal which could lead to a true liberal like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders being elected in the next cycle because Trump polarises the issues at hand. This allows the status quo of the left being complacent and accepting half a loaf (Hillary) instead of nothing (Trump) to be ended and for the left to become more powerful and outspoken. He thinks Trump's somewhat of a paper tiger because the wall, repealing of Obamacare, ripping up of the Iran deal and the ban on all Muslims are things that he probably won't implement to even nearly the degree he was claiming on the campaign trail if at all. This is supported by facts. Trump is already softening his stances on these issues in interviews.

This is my problem with cult like following of people. When they make no sense as Zizek is, you can't see it. The damage Trump had caused and continues to cause (see Supreme Court picks), who will reverse it?

@@caimaccoinnich9594 guess who's wrong now?

Moosa Iqbal - he rarely does that.

It is his job to stop the guest from bullshitting and put the heat on him. If you want the guest to speak without host that is criticial, then watch Fox News

Love a bit of Zizek. But makes a change to see someone challenge, and stop him rabbiting on and meandering.

ʻabd allāh He's like a video gamer that sets the difficulty too high because he thinks he's going to win.

I'm actually a Zizkek fan but was he right? I don't think Biden is the result of a establishment shake up he (Zizke) imagined after Trump. Instead its as you were in the democratic party. But I'm with Zizek, it was worth a go because things would have been as dire with Clinton as with Trump, just hidden.

@@LuisPerez-tx5jo I don't think the results of a shake-up would be so readily visible. Perhaps it would be clearer if we revisited this moment in a few years time; After all, hindsight is always 20/20.

You are delusional.

@@minhyukjang I will be bumping this. You will be wrong. Why can I already tell? Why could Medhi? Why can’t you? Even worse, why are you a b*tch?

No it's worse. Politics are super polarized and Biden's presidency and the far-left have embolden Trump and his supporters.

An intellectual isn't moved by emotion.

Oxford actually

He was spot on with every comment here

Zizek is inconsistent incoherent and illogical.

Watch the the perverts guide to ideology

if i understand zizek correctly, he's trying to say that having trump in office may push socially, economically, and/or culturally marginalized u.s.-dwelling people (e.g., muslims, black people, lgbtq people, women, the undocumented, indigenous people) to actively struggle for liberation to a greater degree than they would have had hillary won. if hillary had won, many marginalized people might have regarded such active struggle as being optional rather than necessary, such that little or no progressive change would occur. trump's victory may function as a wake-up call, a fire under the rear ends of the marginalized, prompting the marginalized to recognize the absolute necessity of here-and-now active struggle for liberation (hence, zizek's assertion @7:20, "for me, the main thing is political mobilization of the left, to break out of the status quo"). of course, the key word here is "may" ( hence, hasan's retort @7:27, "how do you know they're going to break out of it? how do you know they won't just go home depressed and defeated?").

I think probably he didn’t really consume Zizek’s contents before