APA proclaimed “traditional masculinity” as toxic:… “Traits of so-called ‘traditional masculinity,’ like… masking distress, … have been linked to… aggression….” … What makes this statement really dangerous is the mixture of ideology and ostensibly neutral expertise

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One joke made in bad taste can ruin your career but ruthless careerism is considered normal. A new universe of subtle corruption is thus emerging, in which career opportunism and the lowest denouncing of colleagues presents itself as high moralism.

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Schopenhauer is at the origins of the rationalist philosophy of life… Schopenhaeurian drive is life drive, while the Freudian drive is death drive. And in the opposition between life and death, I’m for death. That’s why I love Von Trier’s Melancholia. https://t.co/CFziKlLlcd

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“the Left does little else than scold & insult”, the Left does what is worse still: it patronizingly “understands” the confusion & blindness of the poor… This… arrogance explodes…in…shows (John Oliver…) which… enact the… arrogance of the liberal intellectual elite

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The subliminal message of Trump’s vulgarities to ordinary people was: »I am one of you!«, while Trump supporters felt constantly humiliated by the liberal elite’s patronizing attitude towards them. As Zupančič put it…, “the extremely poor do the fighting for the extremely rich"

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we as a rule identify with the other’s weaknesses, not only or even not principally with the strengths. Which means that the more Trump’s limitations were mocked the more ordinary people identified with him & perceived attacks on him as condescending attacks on themselves

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we do not need a dialogue between religions (or civilizations); we need solidarity between those who struggle for justice in Muslim countries & those who participate in the same struggle elsewhere. We need a politicization that strengthens the struggle here, there, and everywhere

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In Eyes Wide Shut, “Nicole Kidmen tells Tom Cruise…about fantasising about cheating him with some naval officer they met… His desperate attempt to catch up with her fantasy” by cheating on her ends in a failure

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I fully support the struggle of transgender people against their legal segregation. [Their] message is radically universal: it concerns us all; it tells the truth about all of us as sexual beings. I see the anxiety apropos sexual identities as universal feature of human sexuality

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The Labour Party’s election failure in the UK proves that, for the progressive left to succeed, it will have to become considerably more revolutionary. The ‘softly, softly’ approach isn’t working

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anti-Semitism as a displaced anti-capitalism (instead of blaming the capitalist system, the rage is focused on a specific ethnic group accused of corrupting the system)

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That was the miracle of Corbyn. There what not even a trace of bad populism in Corbyn. Manipulating the worst fears and so on. Corbyn didn’t accept this game. It is todays modern left which truly stands for moral authority. https://t.co/fQUzKtGUxW

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Corbyn ignored the fearmongering. Corbyn didn’t answer at the same level of it. He succeeded. It worked. It is a wonderful ethical sign that people cannot be just manipulated. It is a great hope to all of us. https://t.co/fQUzKtGUxW

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good manners make us better. That is why I am incidentally horrified by the latest trends in politics represented in particular by US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which allow politicians to be publicly vulgar. https://t.co/bijZBGiHyB

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Sweden fully participates in character assassination of courageous Assange, says Zizek. https://t.co/eQoDBNOfrj

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“resistance” is the norm today, and obstacle to effectively question dominant relations, says Zizek https://t.co/US6d4ystCa

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Greta calls us to listen to science and take science seriously, this does not mean science provides the political answers… Science enables us to discern the contours of the deadlock in which we are (the catastrophic ecological implications) https://t.co/79vdwKGV8P #postpolitics

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Greta is not a totalitarian acting as an instrument of the scientific big Other, she is proposing scientific data as the base which should compel us elaborate a new emancipatory project and act upon it. https://t.co/UJYJJtkele #GretaThunberg #bigOther #Lacan #timeOfMonsters

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Thunberg…is fighting against those who deny the threat https://t.co/Vn8xIkkyrO

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‘We children are…to wake the adults up.’ This is how a true apostle talks, effacing herself from the picture again & again, fully aware that the focus on her, even if it is celebratory, works as a distraction from her message… Thunberg is…an apostle. https://t.co/sVyenV0onU

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