Martin Luther King and Tolerance

As told 13

“For Martin Luther King, my God, racism wasn't a problem of tolerance; it's a problem of economic injustice, laws, and so on and so on.”
5:28 Slavoj Zizek on Importance of Theory: Psychoanalysis, Belief, Deconstruction, Cognitivismpub. 2017-09-11 · 21:18

“Go and check on the web Martin Luther King's speeches... the word tolerance is practically absent there. For Martin Luther King, one doesn't fight racism with tolerance but with emancipatory political struggle.”
2:42 Year of Distraction1:16:41

“For Martin Luther King, one doesn't fight racism with tolerance, but with what? Emancipatory political struggle, even armed struggle.”
9:06 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

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, 4 jobsuses

tolerance ×8 culturalization of politics ×5 depoliticization ×4 post-political era ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Martin Luther King Jr.12 Isaac Asimov3 Donald Rumsfeld6 Père Joseph (François Leclerc du Tremblay)3 Lavrentiy Beria3 Julius Rosenberg2 Paul Robeson2 Ágota Kristóf2

alongside works

Grey Eminence3 The Conflict of Faculties2 Regulating Aversion2 The Shining (novel)2 Leap of Faith2 In Search of Lost Time2 Zen at War3 The End of Faith2

Told together with

23% Tito dies happy / Yugoslav debt accumulation 3 shared talks 23% Japanese workers and unused holiday rights 3 shared talks 23% Rumsfeld's known/unknown matrix and the fourth term 5 shared talks 19% Oil as evidence of nature's catastrophism 3 shared talks 17% Hitchcock's Vertigo, the missing underwear 3 shared talks 15% Father Joseph / Père Joseph, Gray Eminence 3 shared talks 15% Book of Job as first critique of ideology 4 shared talks 14% Beria's entry replaced by Bering Strait in Soviet Encyclopedia 2 shared talks 14% Stephen King's The Shining as neighbor 2 shared talks 14% South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee vs. Nazi Germany 2 shared talks 13% Sam Harris's Truth Pill 2 shared talks 13% Mao on the atom bomb, accepting terror 2 shared talks

Every retelling 13

5:28 Slavoj Zizek on Importance of Theory: Psychoanalysis, Belief, Deconstruction, Cognitivismpub. 2017-09-11 · 21:18

King practically never mentions tolerance; for him racism was a matter of economic injustice and laws, not of attitudes to be tolerated, exposing the automatic translation of racism into tolerance as ideology., illustrating ideological mystification,tolerance

2:42 Year of Distraction1:16:41

Žižek challenges audiences to search MLK's speeches and find 'tolerance' is practically absent; for King, the fight against racism was political and emancipatory struggle, not a matter of tolerance., illustrating culturalization of politics,tolerance as pseudo-notion

9:06 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

Žižek invites listeners to search King's speeches online and find that the word 'tolerance' is practically absent, King fought racism as emancipatory political struggle, not as a tolerance problem., illustrating culturalization of politics,tolerance ideology

6:28 Slavoj Zizek. The Future of Europe. 2009 1/122009-03-07 · 09:46

Žižek suggests Googling MLK's speeches with the word 'tolerance' to prove it is absent; King viewed racism as a political/legal/economic issue, not a matter of being 'tolerated,' highlighting the modern ideological shift., illustrating ideology,post-political society

1:33:06 Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek2024-06-27 · 3:13:30

Žižek argues that modern racism discourse has been 'culturalized' into a matter of 'tolerance' rather than economics. He notes that MLK never spoke of wanting to be 'tolerated,' but rather demanded economic justice, showing how the left has abandoned radical economic questions for cultural ones., illustrating culturalization of struggle,ideology

1:12 How are we embedded in Ideology?2007-11-16 · 1:15:40

Žižek points out that MLK's civil rights speeches contain virtually no use of 'tolerance' or 'intolerance', for King, racism was a problem of unjust laws and economic exploitation, not attitudes., illustrating tolerance as ideology,depoliticization