The onion-dome-phobia of Zelenski regime — Engin Kurtay

The attacks of Ukrainian government on Ukrainian Orthodox Church took an acute and improvised start on November 2022. The attacks intensified during the following months. As a reaction to all this provocative manipulations, people of Kiev, who consider the facility as their common spiritual and historical heritage, tended to protect the building. But they were stopped and blocked by the Police. Why does the Ukrainian government attack —supposedly— it’s own created Church? And the Western media has carefully avoided reporting any news on this event — and they still keep silence. Why? Continue reading “The onion-dome-phobia of Zelenski regime — Engin Kurtay”

Sexual is (not) Political – Part 2 – Prof Slavoj Zizek

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Trudeau, profiting from the parade

The irony of this parade is that the situation from decades ago is almost symmetrically inverted: now it is heterosexuality which is tolerated, of course, but it is expected from heterosexual majority not to display their orientation with too much pride since such display would be instantly qualified as heterosexist – heterosexuality is (not explicitly but subtly) perceived as a limitation, as a sexual orientation which is opportunistically satisfied with the old established patterns and avoids the risk to explore new liberating possibilities, as an impassive submission to the libidinal order imposed by the structure of social domination.
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Cinselliğin Politikası (olmaz) – Bölüm 2 – Prof Slavoj Zizek

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Kanada Başbakanı Trudeau, Onur Yürüyüşünden nemalanırken..

Karşıcinsçiliğe bu eleştirel bakış her ne kadar normatif olmama, farklı yönelimlere açık olma iddasında olsa da, bunu alttan alta karşıcinsel-olmayan [non-heterosexual] yönelimlere ayrıcalık yüklemeden yapamıyordu. Bu ayrıcalık yüklemesi de, karşıcinsel-olmayan [non-heterosexual] yönelimlerin – en azından – egemen ideolojinin etkisinden daha bağımsız olduklarına ve egemen ideolojiye karşı radikal bir karşı çıkışı temsil ettiklerine dair imalar içeriyordu.

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