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ZIZ013 Left in Dark Times (16.09.2008)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

CHAPTER

The Perverse Effect of the Humanitarian and the Charity Movement

The way in which the great powers said, we deliver to you blankets in which we shall put your corpse. And for the price of that, letters in peace and don't ask us anything else was really disgusting. The charity business has the result of transforming the human being into a single, a simple body. There is a modification of the subject, a flesh is a flesh, isization of the human being. It might be one of the worst and most terrible forms of despise of the other, and even of racism. You, black people from Rwanda, are just good to be fed and shall up. We don't want to know anything about that.

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