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ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Mysterious Problem of Tolerance

Frida Ghitis: The language of respect is the language of liberal tolerance. She says it would be nice to live in a world where French fries were called Mohammed's and Iranian pastry was named Fridom, but that won't happen. Ghitis: What lurks at the horizon of this obsession with respect is a nightmarish prospect of a society regulated by a perverse tact between religious fundamentalists and politically correct preachers of tolerance.

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