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Amiri Baraka's anti-Semitism

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Žižek discusses black Marxist poet Amiri Baraka, whose film was blocked in America under the guise of being 'anti-Semitic,' illustrating how anti-Semitism is used to silence progressive Jewish and leftist voices.

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“they told us no he's anti-Semitic and the way they use anti-Semitism to silence everyone it's so scary”
“We don't want to kill anyone, we don't want to organize any pogrom. But we also think that the best way to hinder the always unpredictable actions of instinctual anti-Semitism is to organize a reasonable anti-Semitism.”
“the more Jews are destroyed the more powerful is the remainder”

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Žižek discusses black Marxist poet Amiri Baraka, whose film was blocked in America under the guise of being 'anti-Semitic,' illustrating how anti-Semitism is used to silence progressive Jewish and leftist voices., illustrating race-antisemitism,ideology
Žižek quotes Robert Brasillach's 1938 formula, we can admire Chaplin, Proust, Menuhin, but we must organize 'reasonable anti-Semitism' to prevent worse outbursts, and shows that contemporary European anti-immigrant politics reproduces this logic verbatim., illustrating reasonable anti-Semitism,toxic neighbor,liberal-democratic mystification
The more Jews are physically destroyed, the more powerful the fantasy/remainder of the Jew becomes in anti-Semitic ideology., illustrating paradox of anti-semitism,lack and excess are the same thing