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  • May 6, 2017 at 12:40 am #68426
    zn
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    May 6, 2017 at 10:55 am #68438
    Zooey
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    If only.

    May 6, 2017 at 1:26 pm #68441
    zn
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    Zooey wrote:

    If only.

    I actually read that as double edged.

    It’s also a swipe at the people who think if you read the right theory you have it all figured out.

    May 6, 2017 at 1:55 pm #68442
    nittany ram
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    zn wrote:
    Zooey wrote:

    If only.

    I actually read that as double edged.

    It’s also a swipe at the people who think if you read the right theory you have it all figured out.

    Yeah, I sorta took the guy’s ‘epiphany’ as making fun of what the right considers to be sissy left-wing theories of the kind that only ‘snowflakes’ subscribe to.

    May 6, 2017 at 2:46 pm #68447
    zn
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    nittany ram wrote:

    Yeah, I sorta took the guy’s ‘epiphany’ as making fun of what the right considers to be sissy left-wing theories of the kind that only ‘snowflakes’ subscribe to.

    Well I didn’t take it that way either, myself.

    I thought it was more of an insider-left making fun of theory thing. Like, if only the people knew the right theory.

    The double edge is that it’s also not likely that a standard Trump voter would care about any kind of counter-argument. It’s just about cheeleading.

    …

    May 8, 2017 at 10:20 am #68486
    Zooey
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    I took it as a jab at the ineffectuality of serious critical thinking in the face of the typhoon of ignorance and irrationality.

    I wonder how Zizek would see it.

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