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442 posts and 51 image replies omitted.>>2586954Okay then. Have fun with that.
neema parvini made a video on contrapoints, showing the failure of the left to counter the discursive fascism of "debate", which undermines liberal norms and values by "vice signalling". the dynamic here is what steven pinker refers to as "common knowledge", or what i would say is the implicit or connotative semiotics which bind society together (such as custom, manners, etc.) contrapoints is obviously correct that beginning to engage in "debate" with fascists leads to a sinister dialectic, acting as a rhetorical prison for the victim. parvini plays the fool in his commentary, stating that merely appealing to authority is "not an argument", which may be true in itself, but its also the right of people on the left to disengage from the right-wing format. zizek has discussed this before, that one cannot accept the terms of debate for a fascist, since it confuses form and content. as zizek has said elsewhere (such as in his recent pussy riot interview, he says that "truth" is not a matter of fact. truth is not objective, but subjective). to give charity to this philosophically is to see how german idealism posits subjectivity as the form by which objects appear - thus, it is the subject which creates the content. so then, it isnt wise to debate fascists in any case. no argument is necessary.
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>>2586979have fun with what?
its a canonical aspect of the british left to deregulate medicine and cosmetics to allow for personal freedom. adam curtis included the example of a british transsexual who traveled to thailand to get a procedure in one of his documentaries. there was a recent scandal about children with gender incongruity being experimented on by medical services in this country, with organisations like mermaids being fundraised by various aspects of the left, undercutting NHS ethics.