Related to human rights, Zizek wrote (in You May!): “In our post-political liberal-permissive society, human rights can be seen as expressing the right to violate the Ten Commandments. The right to privacy is, in effect, the right to commit adultery, in secret, without being observed or investigated. The right to pursue happiness and to possess private property is, in effect, the right to steal (to exploit others). Freedom of the press and of expression - the right to lie. The right of free citizens to possess weapons - the right to kill. Freedom of religious belief - the right to celebrate false gods. Human rights do not, of course, directly condone the violation of the Commandments, but they preserve a marginal ‘grey zone’ which is out of the reach of religious or secular power. In this shady zone, I can violate the Commandments, and if the Power catches me with my pants down and tries to prevent my violation, I can cry: ‘Assault on my basic human rights!’ It is impossible for the Power to prevent a ‘misuse’ of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application.”
As brothers Adolph Reed Jr. and Cedric Johnson might say, those who do not criticize the PMC politics of BLM should also keep quiet about racism. I get Zizek's stance on African Americans as the (Rancièrian) singular universal, but he also and elsewhere defends the illusions of universalist idealism in terms of the same radical emancipatory opportunism that he otherwise attacks as fake universalism.
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Related to human rights, Zizek wrote (in You May!): “In our post-political liberal-permissive society, human rights can be seen as expressing the right to violate the Ten Commandments. The right to privacy is, in effect, the right to commit adultery, in secret, without being observed or investigated. The right to pursue happiness and to possess private property is, in effect, the right to steal (to exploit others). Freedom of the press and of expression - the right to lie. The right of free citizens to possess weapons - the right to kill. Freedom of religious belief - the right to celebrate false gods. Human rights do not, of course, directly condone the violation of the Commandments, but they preserve a marginal ‘grey zone’ which is out of the reach of religious or secular power. In this shady zone, I can violate the Commandments, and if the Power catches me with my pants down and tries to prevent my violation, I can cry: ‘Assault on my basic human rights!’ It is impossible for the Power to prevent a ‘misuse’ of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application.”
Okay! Now I must find this film, thank you.
I'm not an idiot. you're ambiguous sir!
As brothers Adolph Reed Jr. and Cedric Johnson might say, those who do not criticize the PMC politics of BLM should also keep quiet about racism. I get Zizek's stance on African Americans as the (Rancièrian) singular universal, but he also and elsewhere defends the illusions of universalist idealism in terms of the same radical emancipatory opportunism that he otherwise attacks as fake universalism.