shiels
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What did you make of the zizek essay? He gets to his usual cute inversion
This bit
All of them were exposed to a superego pressure that is far from an authentic call to justice. The black woke elite is fully aware it won’t achieve its declared goal of diminishing black oppression—and it doesn’t even want that. What they really want is what they areachieving: a position of moral authority from which they may terrorize all others, without effectively changing social relations of domination.
The situation of those terrorized by the woke elite is more complex, but still clear: They submit to woke demands because most of them really are guilty of participating in social domination, but submitting to woke demands offers them an easy way out—you gladly assume your guilt insofar as this enables you to go on living the way you did. It’s the old Protestant logic: “Do whatever you want, just feel guilty for it.”
Made me think of the lack of principles in centrism - not much interest in system change, just moral superiority. And the reason they profess to hate the right but more actively shit on the left is because of their shame about abandoning principles, and guilt over complicity and materials … which is semi unconsciously projected onto the deranged and naive youth