Why does he trigger leftists so much?

He'll do things like analyze international politics (or any important event, really) by applying psychoanalysis to them. How anyone can take him seriously is beyond me.
A recent example:
>I visited Cuba a decade ago, and on that visit I found people who proudly showed me houses in decay as a proof of their fidelity to the revolutionary “Event”: “Look, everything is falling apart, we live in poverty, but we are ready to endure it rather than to betray the Revolution!” When renunciations themselves are experienced as proof of authenticity, we get what in psychoanalysis is called the logic of castration. The whole Cuban politico-ideological identity rests on the fidelity to castration—no wonder that the Leader is called Fidel Castro!
Most of his "work", not to say all of it, rests on this kind of pseudoscientific garbage. Not to mention he's the biggest attentionwhore of the academic world: in every subject he holds the opinion that will get him the most attention.

They sure like to call themselves so.

kek I saw that interview.

really buttered my bagel

Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not.

Leftist is such a vague word it has a different meaning in every country.

Because he is an edge lord who says contradictory edgy things for attention.

Lemme tell you a bit where it works.

You see, for us in Slovenia the Balkans begin in Croatia. We are civilized, we are Central Europe, we were in the Austria part of the empire, they are the savages. For them the Balkans begin in Bosnia and Serbia, they say "oh we are Catholic, and thus European". Same for Serbs, they see themselves as the first and last bastion of Europe and Christianity, Albania, Kosovo, they are Muslim savages.
(This isn't from this interview, but it touches on the point that the birth of Serbian nationalism is in the purification of muslim Serbs who are uneuropean, savages, turks).
But it goes both ways you see. In Austria they think the Balkans begin at the (insert name of hills that are on the border, i can't remember). We are Slavs and they are Germanic. Then you go to Germany to which Austria is the "Eastern Realm". Then the French who always thought there is something evil and savage in the Germans. And then of course is England they view the whole of Europe as a kind of Balkans.
The Balkans are Europe's great unconscious. Savage, anti feminist, conservative.

He's also good at bantz on the topic
youtube.com/watch?v=bwDrHqNZ9lo

Ideologically I like him but he can be off putting

Why does he (still) trigger "leftists" so much?

>The whole Cuban politico-ideological identity rests on the fidelity to castration—no wonder that the Leader is called Fidel Castro!
maybe he was just trying to be edgy/tell a joke

Hitchens triggered everyone.

Do you think he's seen Evangelion?

>its a /pol/ doesnt know what a leftist is episode and is simply alt right for the sole reason that he dislikes what he thinks the monolithic sjw left is

You're not supposed to take him seriously though. It's comedy and satire for intelligentsia.

He's a frankfurter.

3 more examples for you:
>The problem with terrorist fundamentalists is not that we consider them inferior to us, but, rather, that they themselves secretly consider themselves inferior. This is why our condescending, politically correct assurances that we feel no superiority toward them only makes them more furious and feeds their resentment.
>Modern society is defined by the lack of ultimate transcendent guarantee, or, in libidinal terms, of total jouissance. There are three main ways to cope with this negativity: utopian, democratic, and post-democratic. The first one (totalitarianisms, fundamentalisms) tries to reoccupy the ground of absolute jouissance by attaining a utopian society of harmonious society which eliminates negativity. The second, democratic, one enacts a political equivalent of "traversing the fantasy": it institutionalizes the lack itself by creating the space for political antagonisms. The third one, consumerist post-democracy, tries to neutralize negativity by transforming politics into apolitical administration: individuals pursue their consumerist fantasies in the space regulated by expert social administration. Today, when democracy is gradually evolving into consumerist post-democracy, one should insist that democratic potentials are not exhausted - "democracy as an unfinished project" could have been Stavrakakis' motto here.
>In this precise sense - shocking as it may sound to vulgar materialists and obscurantists in their unacknowledged solidarity - the phallus, the phallic element as the signifier of castration - is the fundamental category of dialectical materialism. The phallus qua signifier of 'castration' mediates the emergence of the pure surface of Sense-Event; as such, it is the 'transcendental signifier' - non-sense within the field of Sense, which distributes and regulates the series of Sense.

>Americans think Democrats are "leftists"

his main contribution, even though in a very disarticulated way, is a critic to PC culture. that's the reason why some leftists are triggered

Except he actually knows what PC means and doesn't act like /pol/ where if you aren't being altright you are being PC. And the real problem with PC culture is the plebs got their hands on it, and plebs always ruin every idea that they get their hands on.

Leftists on Veeky Forums love him. Tankies and SJWs alike hate him.

Tankies are subhuman. I mean they are either literally slavs, or they want to be slavs.

>And the real problem with PC culture is the plebs got their hands on it
If you don't see there's an intrinsic problem with PC culture, then you don't understand Zizek

I'm not saying there isn't an intrinsic problem. I'm saying plebs inevitably go full retard. There are lots of things that are tolerable when only the gentry has it, but when the plebs get their hands on it.

>leftists are all identity politics obsessed progressives
Wrong, they're just a vocal minority

ikr, where did things go so wrong? Cold War propaganda?

I know damn well what it is stop being butthurt it is just a label

never said that dolt even adressed it in the post you fucking dolt

>muh pol

>People still subscribe to this crazy monolithic dichotomy of left and right

Cringe!

it is funny how angry people get when you utter the word leftist going to do it more often!

He offends liberals by calling him out on their hypocrisy and latent rightism

Leftists pretty universally respect Zizek. He's the most prominent Marxist in the public eye.

They generally do not. Neither Obama or Hillary called themselves leftists on the stump.

Based Sargon

leftists aren't liberals

He triggers neoliberals, not leftists.

He triggers modern liberals. What they concern themselves with is advocating the right of mentally ill people to mutilate thenselves. He concerns himself with actual leftism, advancing workering people's cause, etc.

Well he himself kind of explains it. Nothing causes a greater disruption to an institution or system than a refusal to participate in it.

By not buying into the "we should idolize mao and castro" and "white guilt should trump using your brain" memes that have dominated liberal and 'left' thinking in the last years, and calling for a new communism for the 21st century he #triggers the shit out of tankies and sjws alike.

He's also vulgar, which just automatically bothers small minded people.

vocaroo.com/i/s1ZgHvqyOi0z

He only triggers American liberals

He's closer to post-marxist narratives. He says the modern left-right paradigm is worthless and we must acknowledge that many migrants are indeed bad for host nations which essentially makes him a "fascist"

Look up yakov petterson on Twitter. Swedish tankie who actually wishes he was Russian, to the point of denying ethnic cleansing inside the soviet union

E! But ju ar rong!

>implying that there was any cleansing made by soviets

He's a brocialist

Crimean Tatars and Chechens post ww2

Ethnic cleansing is when you murder people because of their ethnic relation.
Deportation is when you move them forcefully.

If the citizens of your country have collaborated with enemy in large numbers, your actions towards them are justified.

Back to r/socialism with you

>thnic cleansing is when you murder people because of their ethnic relation.

Or expel them from their homeland.

>it is another OP thinks liberal are leftist
>mfw there are no zizek memes ITT

>1480792053932.png

One of my favourite Ž vids

He questions the dogmata of the progressive left and is thus an apostate in their eyes.

More than 30% of Crimean Tatars and Chechens have died either during or shortly after the deportation