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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