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Why Is the Self-Proclaimed Leftist Slavoj Žižek Making Right-Wing Remarks About the Syrian Refugee Crisis?
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Why Is the Self-Proclaimed Leftist Slavoj Žižek Making Right-Wing Remarks About the Syrian Refugee Crisis?

In a recent interview with Channel 4 News, Žižek argued that the Syrian refugee crisis is not the tragedy we think it is.

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Noam Chomsky once accused the cultural critic and Marxist scholar, Slavoj Žižek, of being “an extreme example of” a vapid intellectual. Žižek, the alleged “radical leftist,” validated Chomsky’s assessment in a recent interview with Channel 4 News.

In the interview, Žižek echoed right-wing propaganda about the Syrian refugee crisis by suggesting that it i…

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