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He is definitively in support of trans people, but doesn't really understand and as a result has said a lot of things that are at various levels of genuinely bad to neutral. He generally always catches flak for all of it any time he says anything about trans people. A friend of mine regularly goes out of their way to explain why a bunch of the things he's said that people were upset about were taken out of context and not actually problematic when you understand even the basics of lacanianism, but was also absolutely fucking malding and unable to let it go for about two weeks after he said that being transgender was not, in and of itself, an inherently revolutionary act.
So, TL;DR, zizek is a land of contrasts, and while he has said a number of things that are very shitty, I'd say about 50-75% of the things he catches shit for are largely misunderstandings of a boomer that doesn't get it and is trying to explain something he doesn't really understand through the lens of Hegel or Lacan, which tends to not really work out well.
is trying to explain something he doesn’t really understand
Y’know that right there might be the problem.
Wonder if somebody had a take on talking authoritatively about topics you don’t understand?
:mao-wave:
OH WOW IF IT ISN’T MAO
I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
I’m riffing here. Zizek is gonna be a mixed bag and someone who generally has a good batting average can also just have a dogshit for brains take on a topic.
I mean, yeah. That's exactly his biggest problem, and a pretty significant portion of people's. He talks about things he doesn't understand, that are out of the scope of who he is and what he does. But don't we all, from time to time? It's something a lot of people need to work on.
It's usually better for sure, since it's a tighter group of people with a more focused scope, so we're interacting with others who know a lot about the subject matter, and thus we're less likely to need/want to speak about something we don't know about, since someone else is going to be there to say what actually should be said.
He is definitively in support of trans people, but doesn't really understand and as a result has said a lot of things that are at various levels of genuinely bad to neutral. He generally always catches flak for all of it any time he says anything about trans people. A friend of mine regularly goes out of their way to explain why a bunch of the things he's said that people were upset about were taken out of context and not actually problematic when you understand even the basics of lacanianism, but was also absolutely fucking malding and unable to let it go for about two weeks after he said that being transgender was not, in and of itself, an inherently revolutionary act.
So, TL;DR, zizek is a land of contrasts, and while he has said a number of things that are very shitty, I'd say about 50-75% of the things he catches shit for are largely misunderstandings of a boomer that doesn't get it and is trying to explain something he doesn't really understand through the lens of Hegel or Lacan, which tends to not really work out well.
Y’know that right there might be the problem.
Wonder if somebody had a take on talking authoritatively about topics you don’t understand?
:mao-wave:
OH WOW IF IT ISN’T MAO
-Mao, Oppose Book Worship
I’m riffing here. Zizek is gonna be a mixed bag and someone who generally has a good batting average can also just have a dogshit for brains take on a topic.
I mean, yeah. That's exactly his biggest problem, and a pretty significant portion of people's. He talks about things he doesn't understand, that are out of the scope of who he is and what he does. But don't we all, from time to time? It's something a lot of people need to work on.
I know I sure do! Good to call each other on that as we see it.
Compared to almost everywhere else on the internet people on this site are really good at not talking nonsense.
It's usually better for sure, since it's a tighter group of people with a more focused scope, so we're interacting with others who know a lot about the subject matter, and thus we're less likely to need/want to speak about something we don't know about, since someone else is going to be there to say what actually should be said.