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Cancel Culture as Big Other

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Cancel culture is not a state of 'generalized foreclosure' (chaos) but a strict form of the Big Other where the 'woke' stance imposes universal prohibition through permissiveness, creating a new symbolic order.

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“this is why the description of the generalized foreclosure... is misleading.”
“Cancel culture works like this... You are for diversity but then... excluding those who don't agree... no freedom for the enemies of the freedom.”
“So that you know their speech argues for diversity and inclusion but what Wittgenstein uses the German term zeigt sich what shows itself through their speech is precisely a position of radical exclusion.”

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Cancel culture is not a state of 'generalized foreclosure' (chaos) but a strict form of the Big Other where the 'woke' stance imposes universal prohibition through permissiveness, creating a new symbolic order., illustrating ideology,big Other
Žižek argues cancel culture works like the Jacobins/Robespierre: it claims to be for diversity and freedom, but effectively excludes those who don't agree, enforcing 'no freedom for the enemies of the freedom.', illustrating liberalism-political-correctness,hegel-dialectics
Žižek argues that cancel culture's speech about 'diversity and inclusion' is a fetish; what 'shows itself' through this speech is a position of radical exclusion against those who don't fit their narrow definition., illustrating shows itself,knowledge as fetish