Kaczyński's 'teraz kurwa my'
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Polish ruling-party leader Kaczyński answered a question about his plans with an extremely vulgar military expression ('now it's our turn to fuck the whore') on state TV, insisting on it when challenged, illustrating how right-wing populism deploys obscenity as a class-solidarity signal.
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“teraz kurwa my—which means now it's our turn to fuck the whore.”
“teraz kurwa my—'it's our turn to fuck the whore'... isn't it a little bit shocking that the guy who presents himself as the beacon of Catholic morality talks in public like this?”
“'Teraz kurwa my', which is a very vulgar expression from military... it means 'Now it's our turn to screw the whore'. He went on repeating it, it became a legend.”
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Jarosław Kaczyński4Mike Pence2Roger Conover1Claire Denis1Julia C Mitchell1Adrienne Rich1Catherine Macdougall1M. Night Shyamalan1
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Polish ruling-party leader Kaczyński answered a question about his plans with an extremely vulgar military expression ('now it's our turn to fuck the whore') on state TV, insisting on it when challenged, illustrating how right-wing populism deploys obscenity as a class-solidarity signal., illustrating obscenity as political strategy,right-wing populism
When asked his political program on television in Poland's biggest newspaper, Kaczyński answered with an extremely vulgar military expression meaning 'it's our turn to fuck the whore', revealing the obscene underside of Catholic conservative identity., illustrating cynical ideology,vulgarity in public speech,right-wing populism,obscene supplement of law
When asked his program, Polish PiS leader Kaczyński said 'Teraz kurwa my' (a vulgar military phrase meaning 'Now it's our turn to screw the whore'), and rather than retracting it, kept repeating it, illustrating a structural moment when private vulgarity enters public political speech., illustrating implicit meta-rules,Trump and institutional norms
52:35 Žižek and Friends - Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Spaces Between (Nov. 2017)2017-11-14 · 1:03:09
Polish ruler Jarosław Kaczyński, asked by a journalist what his party's program was after winning power, answered 'Teraz, kurwa, my', 'Now, whore, it's our turn', a crude military brothel metaphor. When confronted on TV he repeatedly stuck to it. Žižek uses this as evidence that obscenity is the truth of neoconservatism., illustrating obscene leadership,Trump as symptom,figure of voice vs. figure of writing