Identity is no basis for ethics -- as Beivik's 'thinking' shows

Jennifer Frances Armstrong via Teodora NeboSky

A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target

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Slavoj Žižek: Like Pim Fortuyn before him, Breivik embodies the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness

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    Jennifer Frances Armstrong

    QUOTE:His predecessor in this respect was Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch rightist populist politician who was killed in early May 2002, two weeks before elections in which he was expected to gain one fifth of the votes. Fortuyn was a paradoxical fi...See more

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    Jennifer Frances Armstrong MORE:What Fortuyn embodied was thus the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness. Indeed, he was the living proof that the opposition between rightist populism and liberal tolerance is a false one, that we are dealing with two sides of the same coin: ie we can have a racism which rejects the other with the argument that it is racist.

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    • Jennifer Frances Armstrong It's a little unclear what is the paradox Žižek is trying to highlight, as it may well be a structural one intrinsic to the contemporary age. Nonetheless, we might go so far as to say that identity politics, whether of the left or right, produces its own form of logic, which often replaces or precludes a more comprehensive system of ethics.

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