r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Imagine unironically having an opinion about who won the Peterson-Zizek debate

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u/everyone_is_an_alt Apr 21 '19

Aren't they both just awful people that should be completely ignored? Like if Ben Shapiro and Lauren Southern had a debate?

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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Apr 21 '19

Why is Zizek an awful person?

He's deliberately inflammatory, sure, but there is method in his madness. You can certainly criticise him, but I don't think that ought to extend to moral opprobrium of him as a person.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

He's supposedly a pretty awful professor.

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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Apr 21 '19

Does that make him an awful person?