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Irony-free oppression: All agree ethical decay is evident on the right, such as when protests in Iran are brutally quashed and a population is ruled by fear. But it is increasingly seen on the left too, argues the author.
ETHICAL DECAY

Wokeism and cancel culture leave ethics on the rocks

Nomically, the left advocates pluralism and promotes difference, but only within a network of fixed, essentialized identities, and so permissiveness becomes prohibition.

  • Slavoj Žižek
6 min read