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Khomeini: 'they are simple dogs, not human'

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During the Iran-Iraq war Khomeini told a Western journalist the Iranian Revolution hadn't killed one human being; when pressed about the executed victims he replied 'they are simply dogs, they are not human at all', illustrating that every claim of universal love secretly excludes someone from the human.

As told 1

“Iranian Revolution is the most human one we didn't kill not even one human being ... Oh they are simply dogs they are not human at all”
40:25 Slavoj Žižek. The great challenge of The Left. 20162016-07-11 · 49:30

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
totalitarianism ×1 fundamental lie ×1 constitutive exception ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Erich Mielke1Justin Trudeau1Ruhollah Khomeini1Nigel Farage1Paul Mason1Winston Churchill1Max Weber1Emmanuel Levinas1
alongside works
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future1On Nazi Ethics1In the World Interior of Capital1Quran1The X-Files1Elysium1The Hunger Games1

Every retelling 1

40:25 Slavoj Žižek. The great challenge of The Left. 20162016-07-11 · 49:30
During the Iran-Iraq war Khomeini told a Western journalist the Iranian Revolution hadn't killed one human being; when pressed about the executed victims he replied 'they are simply dogs, they are not human at all', illustrating that every claim of universal love secretly excludes someone from the human., illustrating ontological catastrophe (of love),the fundamental lie (of inner experience)