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Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter

example · retold in 3 talks

Žižek uses the slogan 'Black Lives Matter' to argue that true ethics is not the extension of 'All Lives Matter' (liberal universalism) but the assertion of a particular exception ('but black lives matter') that creates a new universality.

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“black lives matter. no, it means precisely. but black lives matter.”
“why not all lives matter? No, it's false… in the same way that in Germany in thirty-five if you were to say but why focus only on Jews”
41:47 Figures of Post-Humanity2018-11-07 · 1:54:00
“in general this is of course true, but the specific violence of the system you can grasp it only in that case of Black lives.”

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Žižek uses the slogan 'Black Lives Matter' to argue that true ethics is not the extension of 'All Lives Matter' (liberal universalism) but the assertion of a particular exception ('but black lives matter') that creates a new universality., illustrating political suspension of the ethical,extension dislocates the universality
41:47 Figures of Post-Humanity2018-11-07 · 1:54:00
Žižek argues 'All Lives Matter' is a false neutrality analogous to insisting on German suffering alongside Jewish suffering in 1935, because Black violence by authority is the schematizing figure that concretizes the universal antagonism of structural racism today., illustrating concrete universality,Kantian schematism of ideology,ideology critique
The reply 'all lives matter / blue lives matter' is a dirty lie: it is generally true but erases the specific violence of the system that is graspable only in the case of Black lives., illustrating asymmetry of state violence